News Corp has announced leadership changes at News UK, with the appointment of Rebekah Brooks as chief executive officer, David Dinsmore as chief operating officer, and Tony Gallagher as editor-in-chief of The Sun. Ms Brooks will replace Mike Darcey, who...

Johnston Press has announced an exclusive, multi-year partnership with Taboola to bring personalised content recommendations to the publisher’s network of local media websites. Taboola’s personalised content recommendations are seamlessly integrated across the Johnston Press network...

A clear framework of targets and controls to govern the BBC’s news services and put cooperation at the heart of its guiding principles must be implemented to ensure a durable, vibrant and plural UK news market, according to a...

News UK’s programme for aspiring journalists The News Academy is hosting its second annual Summer School - a free week-long intensive training programme for students from across UK and Ireland. Twenty talented students aged 16 to 18 have been selected...

The RNLI has launched a wave of Featurelink activity across the local press to promote its fish supper fundraising initiative.  The charity - a regular user of Local Media Works’ native content service - has run ads next to editorial...

The audience of UK newsbrands is 46.7 million adults each month, according to the latest National Readership Survey release. Nine in 10 adults in Great Britain consume a newsbrand either in print or digitally, according to the figures. Seventy per cent...

Hammersmith and Fulham Council have awarded the three-year contract for publication of their public notices to the Fulham Chronicle, one of the Tindle Newspapers' London titles. “This was good news for the local press”, said Philip Evans joint managing director of...

Archant has reported a strong start to the year and modest revenue growth in a letter to shareholders from chairman Simon Bax. Reporting on the first six months’ performance, Mr Bax said that profits are ahead of budget and the...

News organisations, whose coverage of the Notting Hill Carnival over many years has contributed to worldwide recognition of the event, have deplored restrictive media rules for this year’s parade.  Despite the valuable publicising and promotional effect of news photography and...