Economist digital strategy chief: We expect display advertising to have...
Economist deputy editor and digital strategy head Tom Standage on why news publishers need to say goodbye to advertising… The majority of our revenue (65 per cent and rising) comes from circulation. We...
View ArticleAppeal launched for 73 music magazine staff laid off with 'no pay' as Team...
More than £40,000 has been raised to help 73 staff made redundant after music magazine publisher Team Rock announced it was going into administration today. Staff have been sent home with no pay for...
View ArticleThe inside story of Team Rock's sudden closure - 'my boss phoned and said...
Music magazine publisher Team Rock was losing £250,000 a month, according its former content director who has told of his colleague’s “devastation” at the company’s sudden closure. Scott Rowley was...
View ArticleJournalist critic of corruption in Iraq abducted by eight gunmen
Gunmen have kidnapped an Iraqi journalist after breaking into her Baghdad home. The interior ministry said Afrah Sawqi al-Qaisi was abducted from her house in the south-western Saydiyah neighbourhood...
View ArticleGovernment review calls for lifelong media anonymity for child criminals
Child criminals should be given life-long anonymity to reduce reoffending rates, a government-commissioned review has recommended. Ministers are considering introducing legislation to give indefinite...
View ArticleJournalists honoured: Knighthood for Don McCullin and OBE for Mail on...
Sports editor of the Mail on Sunday Alison Kervin and veteran war photographer Don McCullin have been recognised in the New Year honours list. McCullin, 81,has received a knighthood for services to...
View ArticleSarah Ferguson seeking £25m over Mazher Mahmood sting on cash for access to...
The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson is seeking £25m in damages from News UK over a 2010 undercover sting by the News of the World. Details of her legal action follow the jailing of the reporter behind...
View ArticleStoryful news chief: 'Fake news is having a far greater impact than we could...
Fake news is a “major issue” and will require both media organisations and social media platforms to work together to tackle it, according to Storyful’s director of news. Joe Galvin told Press Gazette...
View ArticleSunday Times says it never would have published Lance Armstrong investigation...
The Sunday Times has warned that its historic exposure of drugs cheat cyclist Lance Armstrong would never have happened had Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act been enacted. It has published a form...
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Majority of British adults support press regulator funded by newspaper...
Newspaper publishers are claiming a victory for self-regulation as a new survey reveals nearly half of British adults believe a press regulator should be funded by the newspaper industry itself....
View ArticleBefore one-off costs Times Newspapers made £11.2m last year but The Sun lost...
Restructuring costs and pressure on print advertising hit profits at The Times last year and kept The Sun firmly in the red. Turnover for Times Newspapers Ltd fell by £1m to £342m for the year to 3...
View ArticleRoy Greenslade to end daily Guardian media blog after ten and half years
Roy Greenslade is stop writing his daily media blog for The Guardian at the end of this month ten and a half years after it was launched. The blog has consisted of multiple posts a day including news,...
View ArticleMore than 5,000 Hacked Off supporters urge Government to enact Section 40 as...
More than 5,000 individuals have responded to the Government consultation calling for it enact Section 40 in full thus forcing UK publishers into a state-backed system of press regulation. This is the...
View ArticleNewspapers highlight Max Mosley's youthful involvement with far right amid...
The Sun and Sunday Times highlighted Max Mosley’s youthful far-right leanings as a final flurry of leader columns made the case against enacting Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act. The Government...
View ArticleHacked Off YouGov poll: Most favour tougher regulation, 40 per cent say press...
A YouGov poll commissioned by Hacked Off has found that most favour tougher press regulation and that four in ten feel press behaviour has worsened since the Leveson inquiry. It also found that 53 per...
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Sacked reporter takes on Trinity Mirror in Cornwall with upmarket paid-for...
A local reporter sacked by Trinity Mirror after resisting pressure to produce what he saw as “clickbait” has launched his own website covering his former patch. Graham Smith is seeking crowdfunding to...
View ArticlePrivacy complaints against Sun, Mail and Telegraph over pictures of Andy...
Representatives of tennis star Andy Murray’s baby daughter have had privacy complaints against the Daily Mail, Mail Online, The Sun and Telegraph rejected by press regulator IPSO. The regulator also...
View ArticleMedia lawyers: Why Donald Trump is unlikely to sue in UK or US over 'dirty...
The ethics of Buzzfeed publishing the Trump ‘dirty dossier’ may be in question – but media lawyers appear agreed that he is unlikely to sue either in the US or the UK. The most sordid elements of the...
View ArticleBBC increases commitment to tackling 'fake news' by making Reality Check a...
The BBC is set to increase its commitment to tackling the problem of fake news, according to its director of news and current affairs James Harding. The corporation has made Reality Check, a...
View ArticleMichael Gove and The Times score UK exclusive with Donald Trump interview
The Times secured a UK exclusive today as it published an interview with US president-elect Donald Trump. Times columnist and former cabinet minister Michael Gove said he was invited to interview Trump...
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