The News Media Association has launched a new legal resources facility for member national, regional and local press publishers. The online resource is accessible by logging on to the new legal resources section of the NMA website. Members’ staff are now...

News Corporation chief executive Robert Thomson has renewed his attack on content aggregators, singling out Google for its disregard of copyright, and likened LinkedIn to “spam central”. “We are living in the decade of content distribution, which is not necessarily...

The Government has agreed to increase the power of local authority committees to scrutinise elected mayors following representations from the News Media Association. In a letter to the NMA from Local Government Minister Baroness Williams, the Government commits to granting...

Trinity Mirror’s Rupert Howell has said that “innovation, market consolidation and quality content” are key to the future of news brands. In a piece for Media Week, Trinity Mirror group development director Mr Howell wrote that traditional media would “defy...

Thomas Cook and Volkswagen have used 1Local – the local press package for national clients – for the first time. The regional press package brought £237,000 into the local press industry in July with clients including Carpetright, P&G, Shearings, Tesco, Thomas...

The News Media Association is writing to the Department of Health to seek clarity on newspaper inserts advertising e-cigarettes after becoming aware that the way in which the Department classifies “print media” for the purposes of advertising tobacco products...

MailOnline and Mirror websites have been listed in the top 10 most engaged UK newsbrands on social media in July. According to NewsWhip, the Daily Mail was the sixth biggest publisher on with more than 25.3 million interactions Facebook and...

Johnston Press’ digital revenues have grown at a faster rate in the first half of the year than in the first six months of 2014, the publisher announced in its interim results this week. Digital now represents 20.5 per cent...

The news media industry has concluded successful negotiations with the Premier League and Football League regarding journalist access, news-gathering and content generation at their matches for the next three seasons. The News Media Coalition led negotiations on behalf of the...