MPs have continued to press for business rates relief for news media following the Chancellor’s Plan for Jobs announcement, with the issue raised during business questions in the House of Commons this morning.   Shadow Leader of the House Valerie Vaz...

The news media sector has said that it is vital that access to the top of Governement for a broad cross section of media is enhanced by planned changes to daily briefings for journalists by Number 10 Downig Street.   It...

Businesses which bring furloughed employees back to work will receive a £1,000 bonus per employee as part of measures designed to help jumpstart the job market following the end of the furlough scheme, the Chancellor announced yesterday. Through the Jobs Retention Bonus...

The latest Ofcom survey has found that traditional news media remains the most used and most important source of news and information about the coronavirus. Ofcom have conducted online surveys every week since late March on news consumption throughout the...

The News Media Association has called on Government to “act swiftly” to implement the recommendations of the Competition and Markets Authority’s final report of its online platforms and digital advertising market study in order to restore balance to a...

The Local News Partnership between the News Media Association and the BBC has been “a great success” which delivers “real value” for audiences across the UK in the form of local public interest journalism, a review of the scheme...

French MPs have voted to grant a tax credit to anyone taking out a new subscription to a current affairs newspaper or magazine after the Government argued that the sector was “suffering enormously” from the coronavirus crisis. Deputies voted to...

An influential committee has called on the Government to support the local news media sector as the tech platforms leech advertising revenues away from the creators of public interest journalism. In its Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust report,...

A 100 per cent business rates holiday would provide essential ongoing support to news media publishers as the furlough scheme is withdrawn, enabling them to retain as many journalists as possible until the economy picks up again, the News...