News media content has never been more popular than it is now yet revenues are shrinking because of Google and Facebook's stanglehold on the digital advertising market, national publishers have told peers this week.    Speaking at a Digital and Communications...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has paid tribute to readers of Newsquest’s titles in a personal video after their efforts helped raise more than £500,000 for the NHS during Covid-19. In total across Newsquest’s network of 160 local papers, readers raised...

Google is to launch a “licensing program to pay publishers for high-quality content” later this year, starting in Germany, Australia and Brazil, The Telegraph reported today. Stories from publishers in those countries will appear under Google News and Discover initially. In...

News publishers have asked the Government to waive competition rules so the industry can discuss contingency plans for Britain’s newspaper supply chain, the FT reported yesterday. Publishers want to start discussing emergency plans to keep the newsagent supply chain running...

Nottinghamshire Live reporter Joseph Locker has won the Cathryn Nicoll Award which was set up by the News Media Association to reward brilliant interviewing and feature writing by young regional press journalists. Joseph scooped the award for his interview with Ken...

European news media have welcomed decision of the European Commission to launch formal antitrust investigations to assess whether Apple's rules for app developers on the distribution of apps via the App Store violate EU competition rules.  News Media Europe, which...

Members of the House of Lords condemned violence against journalists and highlighted their important role in democratic societies during an oral answer session on Northern Ireland Paramilitary Groups. Viscount Younger of Leckie (Conservative) stated: “My Lords, journalists play a vital...

    Readership of news media journalism has risen as the public seek out trusted news and information during the coronavirus crisis, new figures from PAMCo show. New data from the audience measurement body for the year to March 2020 shows that...

The European Commission has called for an amendment to Finnish broadcasting laws after the news media industry complained that the public service broadcaster’s online output was distorting competition in the media market.    The Commission launched an investigation into YLE's...