BBC Annual Report 2021: Pay for top journalists up 3% as 52 earn more than...
The BBC annual report shows that 52 journalists at the corporation are paid more than £150,000 a year. The BBC has cut spend on its top talent by 10% in total in the past year. However, salary spend...
View ArticleEvening Standard posts £17m loss but says digital transformation 'already...
The Evening Standard has reported a £17m loss after Covid-19 more than halved its revenues between April and September last year. Accounts for Evgeny Lebedev’s Evening Standard Ltd, filed with...
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Ten years after end of the News of the World: Nick Davies, Mark Lewis and...
Ten years ago this week, during the height of the phone-hacking scandal revelations, the News of the World printed its final edition. This week I spoke to former NoW insiders and other sources central...
View ArticleNews of the World was 'probably beyond reform' says Rusbridger ten years...
Alan Rusbridger was editor of The Guardian during its investigation into phone-hacking which culminated in the 4 July 2011 Milly Dowler front-page which prompted the closure of the News of the World...
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Getty pic of Southgate consoling Saka dominates UK Euro 2020 final newspaper...
For newspaper editors it will have been literally a case of “hold the presses” last night as they waited for the nail-biting conclusion of Euro 2020 before putting together their front pages. As...
View ArticleNews of the World closure ten years on: How hacking scandal cost Murdoch's UK...
The phone-hacking scandal and subsequent legal issues have cost Rupert Murdoch’s UK publishing business more than £1bn ($1.4bn), an investigation by Press Gazette has found. And, ten years on from the...
View ArticleFrance fines Google €500m for failure to negotiate 'in good faith' for news...
France has fined Google €500m (£428m) for failing to negotiate “in good faith” with news publishers over payment for their content. France’s competition regulator said the tech giant had ignored parts...
View ArticleUK publishers could be hit by 'right to be forgotten' deletion requests after...
UK publishers could be impacted by a European Court judgment which appears to extend the “right to be forgotten” from search engines to news websites. Under European Union law, search engines such as...
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The original Substacker: How China expert Bill Bishop built a six-figure...
Bill Bishop is (literally) the original Substacker. In the spring of 2017, Bishop – an American media entrepreneur who previously lived and worked in Beijing – was preparing to start charging readers...
View ArticleInfo chief under fire for raid to find Sun Matt Hancock scoop whistleblower
Concerns have been raised over the protection of whistleblowers and journalistic sources after the Information Commissioner raided two homes in the south of England to find the security officials who...
View ArticleGB News has lost the plot over Guto Harri taking the knee
GB News appears to have lost the plot after suspending one of its presenters for “taking the knee” on air. The day after Guto Harri’s gesture last Tuesday, the official Barb audience figures (which are...
View ArticleGlobal targeting of journalists with state spyware revealed by international...
The targeting of almost 200 journalists, including the editor of the Financial Times, using a spyware surveillance tool has been condemned as the “21st century equivalent of smashing printing presses...
View ArticleUK journalists could be jailed like spies under proposed Official Secrets Act...
Journalists could be treated like spies for reporting on matters of public interest under planned reforms to the UK’s Official Secrets Act. The move has caused alarm at a time when press freedom is...
View ArticleSun warns Matt Hancock 'snog' scoop would be covered up under Official...
Proposed reforms to the UK’s Official Secrets Acts could deter whistleblowers from coming forward and chill investigative journalism, the media industry fears. Press Gazette drew attention on Tuesday...
View ArticleBritish Journalism Awards 2021: Back as live event and celebrating decade of...
The Press Gazette British Journalism Awards will return this year as a live event for the first time since 2019. The awards reception and dinner is taking place at the London Hilton Bankside on 8...
View ArticleSociety of Editors to meet diversity campaigners as new open letter condemns...
More than 100 journalists of colour have accused the Society of Editors of only “offering a few crumbs” to appease those angered by its previous statements on diversity, and in doing so failing to...
View ArticleRonan Keating wins News of the World phone-hacking payout over 15 years of...
Former Boyzone singer Ronan Keating has accepted substantial phone-hacking damages from the publisher of the now-defunct News of the World and The Sun. Keating, who now presents the breakfast show on...
View ArticleReach says it will employ more journalists than at any point in last decade...
Reach now employs more journalists than it did in 2019, despite hundreds of jobs lost in a restructuring programme last year. By the end of this year it will in fact be employing more journalists than...
View ArticleBest regarded Covid-19 news sources revealed: BBC, Guardian, Times and Sky...
TV was the top-ranked platform for Covid-19 news in a new Ofcom survey, while the BBC, Sky News, Guardian and Times were among the most valued newsbrands. Ofcom’s annual news consumption survey found...
View ArticleYounger readers are passing on mainstream news, but what can publishers do...
Engaging diverse, digitally savvy audiences aged under 35 with news – and, crucially, making them pay for it – presents a challenge for publishers. While young people aged between 15 and 34 still make...
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