The pilot Future News Fund has failed to include established local news media publishers following the announcement of the 19 successful projects. Run by NESTA and funded by the DCMS, the fund received 178 applications from a range of organisations, from...

The Eastern Eye and Asian Sunday have signed up to the News Media Assocation and BBC's Local News Partnership scheme, this follows the announcement in October that the scheme would be opened up to news platforms aimed at ethnic minority audiences....

In an interview broadcast on The Media Show on BBC Radio Four yesterday, James Mitchinson,  editor of The Yorkshire Post, touched on the crisis faced by local newspapers, the importance of fact-checking in the age of misinformation, current attacks...

Geraldine Allinson, Iliffe Media director and former executive chairman of the KM Media Group will join the IPSO Appointments Panel. The Appointments Panel’s role is to appoint IPSO’s Chairman and Board and the independent members of the Editors’ Code of Practice...

The new regime to tackle online harms propagated by the tech giants must include an explicit exemption on the face of any legislation for news media publishers and their journalism in order to avoid curbs to free speech, the...

Oliver Dowden CBE has been appointed Culture Secretary today, replacing Nicky Morgan. Mr Dowden was previously Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020, and Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office from...

Reach is to launch three new news brands for the south west after rapid audience growth for the publisher’s titles in the area. DevonLive, and CornwallLive posted year on year growth of 35 per cent and 70 per cent respectively,...

New anniversary listings, providing leads for local media sales teams about significant calendar events, are now available from Local Media Works. LMW provide event listings for the year which highlight important events taking place in the UK and worldwide, many...

Lord Black of Brentwood, deputy chairman at Telegraph Media Group, has become Master of the Guild of St Bride’s.   In mediaeval times St Bride's had several parochial guilds, the oldest being that of St Bride.  It was confirmed by a...