Martin Clarke to leave Mail Online after 'once-in-a-lifetime ride'
Mail Online editor-in-chief and chief executive Martin Clarke is stepping down after 12 years building the website into one of the biggest in the world. Clarke, who also holds the role of publisher at...
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Paul Davies of ITN on meeting Milosevic, helping to end Dubrovnik siege and...
Journalism is said to be the first draft of history. But the account by ITN’s Paul Davies of the siege of Dubrovnic in 1991 is the only draft which history students in the town itself are taught to...
View ArticleBroadcasters to avoid using term BAME as it 'homogenises culturally distinct'...
The UK’s main broadcasters have committed to avoid using the acronym BAME, short for “black, Asian, and minority ethnic”, after a report raised concerns it “homogenises culturally distinct social...
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Ministers pull out of planned broadcast interviews as Downing Street...
Government ministers were “empty-chaired” on the morning broadcast news round on Wednesday after the scandal about Christmas parties allegedly being held at Downing Street last year despite Covid-19...
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British Journalism Awards winners 2021: ITV's Robert Moore named journalist...
Robert Moore has been named the British Journalism Awards 2021 Journalist of the Year for his reporting from inside the US Capitol for ITV News. The Guardian was named News Provider of the Year,...
View ArticleColvin award-winning Rukhshana Media founder: 'Exposing the truth can result...
“We don’t simply do journalism these days, we are also covering the loss of our own rights, of our own freedoms.” This was the powerful message shared by Zahra Joya (pictured), who founded Rukhshana...
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The Sun's Harry Cole slams 'continuing erosion of journalistic rights' after...
Sun political editor Harry Cole has pledged “we will keep fighting on” amid a “continuing erosion of journalistic rights”. Cole made the comments after The Sun picked up the Scoop of the Year prize at...
View ArticleOnline Safety Bill needs 'stronger' protections for news publisher content,...
MPs and peers have said proposed legislation to help people stay safe online needs stronger protections for news publisher content. The Joint Committee on the draft Online Safety Bill, chaired by...
View ArticleThe Guardian hits 1m paying digital readers, including 500,000 outside the UK
The Guardian has become the first British news organisation to declare reaching 1m paying digital readers. The publisher today announced that, as of the end of November, it had 419,541 digital...
View ArticleWhy US publishers aren’t signing up to Google News Showcase
Google is struggling to persuade some of America’s largest publishers to sign up to its News Showcase aggregation scheme, an investigation by Press Gazette has found. Armed with a $1bn budget to pay...
View ArticleNewsletter success is about 'real intimacy' not content, says new Substack...
Farrah Storr, who will spearhead the recruitment of new UK writers for Substack, has said she would have “killed for” the relationship a newsletter has with its audience while she was editing...
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The future's bright: 22 news industry leaders share their tips for success in...
Press Gazette has asked 22 of our readers – news leaders from across the UK and US – to provide us with their media predictions and plans for 2022. We asked executives and editors from Reuters, The...
View ArticleSeven in ten female journalists say newsroom leadership male dominated, survey
A new report has found that women still feel excluded from having power in the UK news media industry. Some 1,200 UK journalists contacted via the Cision database responded to a survey about gender...
View ArticleThe 2021 media industry in charts: Ad spend bounces back, digital subs grow...
After an often dismal 2020, 2021 has felt like a much more positive year for the media industry. While the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the urgency of a number of long-standing trends such as the...
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Nine media stories you may have missed: From Mail on Sunday's Meghan front...
Although journalists keep valiantly reporting every single day of the year, many in the industry shut down over the Christmas and New Year break. We’ve rounded up some of the biggest media stories you...
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Why Twitter has suspended news aggregator Politics For All
Twitter suspended news aggregator Politics For All for violating its rules on platform manipulation and spam, Press Gazette understands. The social media site declined to elaborate on what exactly...
View ArticleNew York Times buys loss-making The Athletic for $550m adding 1.2m to its...
The New York Times Company has agreed a $550m deal to buy sports news business the Athletic. The deal, which is expected to complete in the first quarter of this year, will bring together two of the...
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Piers Morgan returns to Sun with 'shambles' attack on Johnson starting...
Piers Morgan returned to the Murdoch empire today with a new Sun column and salary that makes him almost certainly the UK’s highest paid journalist. Press Gazette understands that the figure of around...
View ArticleWhy B2B publisher Metropolis has bought Viz, Fortean Times and Cyclist
Metropolis bought adult satire magazine Viz, paranormal title Fortean Times, and Cyclist because they fit the specialist publisher’s strategy of being “strong in their niche”. Viz was once one of the...
View ArticleInterview: Pharma billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong wants LA Times to be his...
Next month marks four years since Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong agreed a $500m deal to buy his local newspaper, the Los Angeles Times. “It seems like 30 years,” says Soon-Shiong over a Zoom call from his home...
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