The Department for Work and Pensions is running a Featurelink campaign encouraging people to better understand their state pension and highlighting the benefits of workplace pensions.  Featurelink, the Local Media Works service for national advertisers, allows advertisers to target...

Reporters Without Borders and English PEN have jointly written to Theresa May to request the urgent repeal of Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 which would chill reporting and undermine the “essential role of the press...

News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson has said that the digital world is “dysfunctional from a content creative perspective” and that Google and Facebook need to change their behaviour to ensure that publishers can continue to invest in journalism. ...

Votes in the House of Lords last night for a broad Leveson-style enquiry into the media industry and punitive costs sanctions to be inserted into the data protection regime will “restrict press freedoms” and deal a “hammer blow to...

Ofcom has today, 11 January 2018, announced that it will carry out a Competition Assessment examining the BBC’s proposal to launch a new television channel for audiences in Scotland. In a published letter from Kevin Bakhurst, Ofcom content group director,...

Lobby journalists from the national and regional press titles and members of the Newspaper Conference attended a Christmas drinks reception at No 10 Downing Street this week. Prime Minister Theresa May met Westminster-based journalists at the reception which was also...

The Editors’ Code of Practice has been revised after a public consultation with the changes coming into effect on 1 January. The Editors’ Code of Practice Committee, which writes and revises the code of standards policed by the Independent Press...

The News Media Association wishes you a very Happy Christmas and all good health and prosperity for the New Year.

Google and Facebook’s domination of the digital advertising market and the effect of this on the sustainability of journalism produced by news media publishers is “an incredibly important issue” for Government, Matt Hancock has said.      Speaking in a...