Actress, writer Rachel Shenton wrote and starred in the Oscar-winning short film The Silent Child I am a huge supporter of local newspapers because they do so much good for the communities they serve. Take, for example, my local paper The...

Oscar-winner Rachel Shenton is backing local newspapers ahead of the industry’s annual Local Newspaper Week which kicks off on Monday with the launch of the Making a Difference online vote. Rachel, who wrote and starred in the short film The...

The ICO has now published its final guidance on consent under GDPR. This follows the guidance issued by the European Group of Data Protection Authorities, the Article 29 Working Party.

MPs have given their backing to press freedom by rejecting amendments in the Data Protection Bill which united the news media industry in opposition to the dangerous proposals. In the House of Commons yesterday, an amendment by Ed Miliband MP...

Lidl has scaled back its investment in digital media to a more “appropriate level” after finding that its return on investment was not as effective in digital as in other media channels, according to a Marketing Week report. The discounter...

NMA chairman, David Dinsmore, has written to Lord Kerslake welcoming a meeting to discuss the Kerslake Report findings on media behaviour in the aftermath of the Manchester arena bomb attack. Mr Dinsmore noted that it was unclear from the report...

Attempts to use the data protection regime to stifle freedom of speech pose a grave threat to local newspaper journalism which does so much good in our society, News Media Association chairman David Dinsmore said today. Speaking to journalists during...

Local newspaper editors from independent weekly publications and larger publishing companies have united today to urge MPs to vote against the anti-press amendments in the Data Protection Bill on Wednesday.  Speaking out against the Section 40-style costs sanctions and the...

The News Media Association has received a legal opinion from leading QC Antony White setting out that the new costs sanctions amendments tabled for this Wednesday’s Report stage vote in the Commons on the Data Protection Bill, would be...