The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on the news media sector and prompt action is required to ensure that publishers can continue to serve audiences with the trusted news and information they require in ever increasing numbers,...

Scottish legisaltion designed to to crack down on hate crime poses a grave threat to freedom of expression and could chill robust debate and reporting in the public interest, the News Media Assocation has warned today. In a letter to...

The Stratford Herald has been bought out of administration by a new company headed by Edward Iliffe and Peter and Rory Fowler.  The 160-year-old title was placed into administration in early May. It has now been purchased by a new...

MailOnline has seen audiences surge by more than a third this year as audiences seek out news media journalism during the coronavirus pandemic. In a trading update today, the publisher said that MailOnline's average global daily unique browsers in the...

Archant has launched Local Recall; a new digital archive with millions of news articles dating back to 1870. The project was funded by the Google Digital News Innovation Fund in 2017. The articles can be searched online using voice...

Enforcement action against Google and Facebook must be taken as a matter of urgency in the wake of the Competition and Markets Authority report on digital advertising otherwise news media publishers face “a very bleak immediate future,” peers have...

The NMA has successfully lobbied for journalistic protections to be implemented within counterterrorism port examination and biometric retention powers. The new measures will mean strengthened safeguards for confidential material, which could disclose journalistic sources, and make it clearer...

The 2018 Making A Difference Winner Kath Sansom of the Cambs Times who has campaigned for years on behalf of women who have undergone medical procedures involving mesh implants, will receive an official apology from the government. Ms Sansom, founded...

Responding to the first meeting of the National Committee for the Safety of Journalists being held his week, the NMA said it was pleased that the Government had recognised the importance of journalists being able to carry out their...