Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has highlighted a number of concerns around adtech in a new report but said that the ICO wants to take a “measured and iterative approach” to the “complex” market, continuing to engage with the sector,...

A new conference to highlight the best local public interest journalism produced by Local Democracy Reporters since the launch of the Local News Partnership will be held in Salford next Tuesday.  The BBC, working with local publishers and the News Media...

The Editors’ Code of Practice, under which the vast majority of Britain’s newspaper, magazine and news website journalists work, is to be revised to further strengthen protection for victims of sexual assault. Clause 11 (Victims of sexual assault) has been...

The House of Lords has agreed to appoint a new special inquiry committee to investigate the impact of digital technologies on democracy which will be chaired by Lord Puttnam. Lord Black of Brentwood, chair of the News Media Association’s legal, policy...

A High Court judge has dismissed a bid by two London local authorities to challenge the Government’s crackdown on council papers saying that restricting council papers promotes freedom of expression by “encouraging the development of the local independent press.” London...

The News Media Alliance, the trade body for the news media industry in North America, has published findings from a new study that analyses how Google uses and benefits from news. Among the major findings of the study is that news is...

Mobile boosts local media’s audiences by 94 per cent, with the industry now reaching 40.6 million adults a month in print and digital, according to the local sector’s new cross platform audience currency JICREG True Local which launches today. The...

MediaCom Worldwide chairman and chief executive Stephen Allan has welcomed the launch of JICREG True Local saying that he hopes it will be a "catalyst" for agencies and advertisers to reassess their relationship with local media. In an op ed welcoming the launch...

A police statement released on Monday confirmed that the police have dropped their investigation into investigative journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey. Mr Birney and Mr McCaffrey were arrested on 31 August 2018 over the suspected theft of confidential documents...