Gal-dem editor Suyin Haynes on diversity in the media and making news pay
“I do think things are changing,” says Gal-dem editor Suyin Haynes of diversity in journalism after a year in which racial equality has been thrust into the spotlight and the news industry forced to...
View ArticleIPSO faces calls to launch first standards investigation into Jewish Chronicle
The Independent Press Standards Organisation has been asked to use its powers to launch a standards investigation into the Jewish Chronicle. The press regulator has never yet instigated a standards...
View ArticleArchant sells three South West titles to new company led by ex-boss Simon Bax
Archant has sold three of its titles in south-west England to a new publisher led by its former executive chairman Simon Bax. Ownership of the North Devon Gazette and Torbay Weekly newspapers and their...
View ArticleArchant, Newsquest and MNA halve furlough claims as support scheme winds down
Archant, Midland News Association and Newsquest all halved their furlough claims in May as the news industry became gradually less reliant on Government support. Archant, the UK’s fourth-largest...
View ArticleOfcom: In week 67 of pandemic public still hungry for coronavirus news but...
Eight in ten people were still accessing news about Covid-19 daily last month, 16 months on from the start of the pandemic. At the end of March 2020, the start of the UK’s first lockdown, 99% of the...
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Mirror editor Alison Phillips on Cummings lockdown scoop, not being woke and...
“If it bleeds, it leads” is a typically blunt journalistic aphorism (hackism?) that can still be heard in newsrooms across the UK. The point is that bad news sells. Crime trumps charity. But Alison...
View ArticleABCs: Regional daily newspapers see average 18% circulation decline in a year
The Irish News and Shropshire Star were the only ABC-audited UK regional daily newspapers to beat their sales from the first Covid-19 lockdown in the first half of this year. Meanwhile every one of the...
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'This is more than a news story for us': Why local journalists in Plymouth...
Local journalists in Plymouth have decided not to picture the gunman who killed five people in a rampage that shocked the UK last week, and said they won’t be contacting impacted residents straight...
View Article'I try not to have an endgame': Future CEO Zillah Byng-Thorne on Dennis...
Magazine publisher Future has been on an acquisitions drive over the past five years that’s earned it the label of industry “giant”, although it’s not a term that chief executive Zillah Byng-Thorne...
View ArticleDeath threats, social media scrubbing and chaos: How the CPJ is fighting to...
The Committee to Protect Journalists is receiving hundreds of “SOS emails” a day from Afghans attempting to flee the Taliban, Press Gazette has been told. Maria Salazar-Ferro, emergencies director at...
View ArticleSome 200 Afghan journalists given right to settle in UK following appeal from...
The UK Government has promised to take action to protect some 200 Afghan journalists who worked with the British media. The Observer reports that the UK Foreign Office has agreed to issue visa waivers...
View ArticleTBIJ launches People's Newsroom to boost community journalism and improve...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has launched an ambitious project to address what it sees as UK journalism’s broken business model and chronic lack of diversity. The People’s Newsroom Initiative...
View Article'People need less screen time': Why fast-growing B2B publisher Mark Allen is...
Specialist publisher Mark Allen Group has launched two print titles with websites and events to come as it seeks out “virgin territory” in the market. The MA Business division has launched Consumer...
View ArticleTop 25 US newspapers by circulation: America's largest titles have lost 20%...
America’s top 25 largest newspapers have lost 20% of their weekday print circulation since the Covid-19 crisis began, a Press Gazette analysis of Alliance for Audited Media (AAM) data shows. Newspaper...
View ArticleCEO interview: How student start-up Morning Brew became a $75m-valued...
Morning Brew was started in 2015 as a business newsletter written by two University of Michigan students for their peers. Today, that same email – filled with memes, puns and jokey headlines designed...
View ArticleOfcom backs Piers Morgan after 50,000 complaints over Meghan Markle comments...
Piers Morgan has declared a “victory for free speech” after broadcast regulator Ofcom backed him in the row that led to him leaving ITV’s Good Morning Britain. Ofcom received more than 50,000...
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Wirecard: How the FT proved the pen is mightier than a €24bn criminal gang
The FT Wirecard investigation began with a tip from a German hedge fund manager to Dan McCrum, a reporter on the title’s Alphaville markets blog. “Would you be interested in some German gangsters?”...
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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 Article'Excited, nervous but fully committed': City AM back in print on 20 September...
City AM has set a date for its return to print, 18 months after going digital-only to ride out the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The free business daily will return to the streets and offices of...
View ArticleHunt is on for new BBC head of news as Fran Unsworth resigns
Fran Unsworth has resigned from the BBC and will leave at the beginning of next year after three years as director of news and current affairs. Her departure fires the starting gun on the race to...
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