The Communities Department has served a direction upon Greenwich Council requiring the local authority to cease publishing its weekly newspaper Greenwich Time by the end of the month.      In a statement to Parliament this week, Parliamentary Under Secretary...

The Sunday Times has been announced as joint winners of the coveted Paul Foot Award for their investigation into the Fifa files. Insight editor Jonathan Calvert and assistant editor Heidi Blake were announced as joint winners of the Paul Foot...

MPs have called for a “more symbiotic relationship” between the BBC and local press industry based on “exchanges of content and information” and attacked BBC Trust proposals for the expansion of BBC’s local services. The Culture Media and Sport Select...

In the first of a series, we look at the latest TGI insights into the key drivers behind grocery purchasing decisions and define what matters at a local level.

Local media websites have maintained their strong rate of traffic growth, yesterday’s (Wednesday 25 February) ABC figures show.  Traffic to local media websites has grown by 56.6 per in the past year – a very similar increase to that recorded...

We caught up with Jack Baird, Regional Media Manager at Carat, to discuss his views on local media and what local media means to him.

Local Media Works will be updating the planning and activation teams from Initiative today (Thursday 26 February) with latest trends, insights in local media. The briefing sessions will include details about 1Local - the local media package for national advertisers. The...

The Government is to delay legislating to protect journalists’ sources from being uncovered using RIPA powers until after the general election, amid sustained pressure from senior politicians from all major parties and the press industry to act quickly on...

Local and regional newspapers have one week left to enter the Regional Press Awards and be in with a chance of winning the People’s Choice Making a Difference Campaign. Local newspapers and their journalists can register for the Regional Press Awards...