The News Media Association hosted a lunch for Minister for Digital Margot James and member national and local publishers last week. A range of topics including the Government's forthcoming white paper on online harms were discussed.   

The European Commission has fined Google €1.49 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market dominance by imposing a number of restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites which prevented Google's rivals from placing their search...

An Ofcom report has found that a vast majority of the public find the techniques used to target consumers with advertising online are unacceptable because of the ways in which personal data is used. Published today, the Adtech Market Research...

Bullivant Media has seen the weekly podcasts for three of their Worcestershire titles – the Redditch Standard, Bromsgrove Standard and the Worcester Observer grow in popularity since launching in March 2018. Claire Bullivant, a journalist who divides her time between...

The News Media Association has launched a new campaign called Journalism Matters to highlight the vital role journalism plays in our society.  Replacing Local Newspaper Week, the new campaign will be spearheaded by the local media sector. During the week 13...

Philip Hammond has become the latest senior figure to call for a Competition and Markets Authority investigation into the digital advertising marketplace, saying that the body should prioritise the issue. Following the publication of the Furman report, which aligned closely...

News Corp Australia has called for a range of remedies to break the tech giants’ stranglehold on the of digital advertising marketplace which undermines the funding of news and journalism, including the breakup of Google and a licence fee...

The publishing industry representing the publishers of newspapers, books, journals and magazines has joined forces to call on Chancellor Philip Hammond to urgently bring the UK into the digital age by axing the reading tax on digital publications. In a...

The NMA said: “The NMA gave evidence to Jason Furman and his panel and we welcome today’s report which concludes that the tech giants have simply become too dominant and the market must now be opened up to ensure...