The BBC has announced that Fran Unsworth has been appointed as the BBC's director of news and current affairs following an open competition. Ms Unsworth, a former past president and current board member for the Society of Editors, will take...

Theresa May picked the winners of the Maidenhead Advertiser’s annual competition for youngsters to design the Prime Minister’s official Christmas card at a judging session at the newspaper’s headquarters. Hundreds of children in Mrs May’s Maidenhead and Twyford...

Speaking on a Media Masters podcast, David Pemsel discussed his concerns around Facebook responsibilities for the content on its platform, and the need for a reciprocal business model for publishers and social media platforms and aggregators. In a wide-ranging interview...

Peers have comprehensively rejected a series of proposals which would cripple investigative journalism and seriously harm a wide range of other creative endeavours such as broadcasting, academic research, film-making and book publishing. Speaking in a debate on the Data Protection...

The official ABC figures for November 2017 show that the UK national newspaper market saw a 7.6 per cent year on year uplift across digital platforms, with 32.9 million browsers daily, Newsworks analysis of today’s ABCs shows. In the month...

Government media planners were told about power of local media in print and digital to deliver real results for Government ad campaigns in a presentation by Local Media Works at Number 10 Downing Street. Justin Fenton, head of marketing for...

The Government has indicated that it is “supportive” of proposals for a publisher’s right which is designed to help publishers protect their investment in journalism in the online environment.  In October, Lord Black, chair of the News Media Association’s legal...

Competition authorities in Australia have launched an inquiry to examine the effect that digital content aggregation platforms such as Facebook and Google are having on competition in media and advertising services markets. The Federal Government has formally directed the Australian...

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has accused Facebook in showing “little interest” in the mental health of its younger users after the platform announced plans to launch a messenger service for under 13s. In a piece for The Times today, said...