The Competition and Markets Authority “actively considering” looking into the digital advertising market which is an area in which it is “interested in getting involved.” Giving evidence to the Lords Communications Committee during its ‘The internet: to regulate or...

The News Media Association and the Professional Publishers Association, the trade body for magazines, are calling on Phillip Hammond to apply zero rating for e-publications in the Budget later this month.  While printed magazines, periodicals books and newspapers attract a...

The winners of this year’s Local Media Works Awards which celebrates the power of local media will be announced at a ceremony in London next month. The shortlisted agencies - PHD, Mediacom Edinburgh, MG OMD, RP2, TCS Media, Spark Foundry...

Theresa May has said that she is committed to safeguarding the future of highly local media which is a highly trusted news source for millions of people and “the backbone of this country’s democracy.” In a speech at a reception...

Number 10 Downing Street has stressed that courts must make the court lists available to journalists after instances were reported of officials withholding lists because of data protection rules.   Asked whether officials would be right to withhold lists on data...

An image of Meghan Markle walking down the aisle on her wedding day taken by a Press Association photographer has been named as the overall winner of the News Media Association’s Royal Rota photography competition. The winning photo captures Meghan...

More than 30,000 stories about local public institutions have been generated since January by Local Democracy Reporters, a key plank of the News Media Association and BBC’s ground-breaking Local News Partnership.  Up to 300 stories written by LDRs are shared...

Repression of the media has become a “new norm” across the globe as journalists face increasing risk of intimidation and persecution by corrupt regimes and institutions who want to quash legitimate reporting, the director general of the BBC has...

Members of the House of Lords have joined the News Media Association in highlighting the threat to journalism and freedom of speech posed by proposed new powers in the counter terrorism regime.   In a debate on the Counter-Terrorism and Border...