The BBC’s Local News Partnerships have taken a key step towards the creation of a pool of local democracy reporters to cover council and public meetings across the UK. Contracts to employ an initial 144 full-time and two part-time Local...

Damian Collins MP, chair of the Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee, has welcomed  IPSO’s announcement of the details of its low-cost arbitration scheme, featuring much-reduced costs for claimants. Responding to the announcement, Mr Collins said: "I welcome IPSO's decision...

Local newspapers will close unless the dramatic imbalance in the digital advertising landscape which fails to adequately reward the content creators for their investment in news is addressed, an influential parliamentary committee was told this week. Giving evidence on behalf...

The Press Recognition Panel has suggested that social media platforms could be brought into its regulatory regime - despite the fact that the local and national newspaper industry it was designed for has completely rejected it. In its 45-page Annual...

Newspapers up and down the UK congratulated Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their engagement on Monday.  The NMA managed access to a photo call in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace to mark the engagement. There was a lot of interest...

Ad revenue growth for MailOnline offset a decline in print revenues for the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday to fuel a growth in ad revenues across the Mail titles, DMGT reported today in its full year results.   Total ad...

A founder member of IMPRESS who says he has been misled on multiple occasions by the state-backed regulator has withdrawn from membership because of a range of concerns including its lack of transparency, its inability to deal with major...

A proposed statutory ban on disclosing information linked to investigations into serious incidents in NHS hospitals would seriously dent public confidence in the health services, the News Media Association has warned. In a letter to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt this...

The Government has acknowledged media industry concerns around proposals in the Data Protection Bill which would make the Information Commissioner into a statutory regulator of the media with dangerous and unprecedented prepublication powers. Responding on behalf of the Government to...