Local press in print and digital is the most trusted source for local news and information, way ahead of search engines and social media, according to new YouGov research published for the first time today.    Commissioned by Local Media...

Prime Minister Theresa May has restated her commitment to overturn clauses added to the Data Protection Bill which would force newspapers to pay all the legal costs for data protection claims even if their journalism was vindicated by the...

David Higgerson, digital publishing director, Trinity Mirror Regionals, has hit out out a BBC report into the local media industry, labelling the piece "horrendously inaccurate," "one-sided" and harmful to the local media sector.  Writing in his blog this week David said...

CN Group has announced that the publisher is in the process of being sold to Newsquest, with completion expected shortly after the shareholder meeting on 9 March, subject to shareholder approval. In a press release today, CN Group said that...

Commercial boycotts of the kind orchestrated by Stop Funding Hate which seek to tell people what to people will serve only to dampen and impoverish public debate on key issues, The Times columnist David Aaronovitch has said. Writing in The...

Unilever’s chief marketing officer Keith Weed has become the latest senior marketer to warn the tech giants to take action on transparency, fake news and “toxic content directed at children” before “viewers stop viewing, advertisers stop advertising and publishers...

Johnston Press chief executive Ashley Highfield has warned that local newspapers will close if MPs do not overturn the Section 40-style clause in the Data Protection Bill when it comes before the House of Commons.   Writing in the Yorkshire Post,...

CAP has released revised standards on gambling advertising, which focus on ads that appeal to problem gamblers with free bets and bonuses.  It covers what needs to be included in all advertising which promotes free bets or bonuses.  This includes...

Publishers would be forced to pay the full costs of data protection claims - such as the one threatened against several national newspaper publishers this week by Max Mosley - regardless of whether or not they successfully they defended...