Responding to a joint call for evidence on the standards for biodegradable, compostable and bio-based plastics from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, the NMA said that publishers were looking at...

Google’s dominance of the ad tech marketplace is having a significant negative impact on news media publishers and damaging journalism, a new report from a European competition law firm has found.   In a research piece entitled ‘”Trust me, I’m fair”...

Sofia Pesce has joined the News Media Association as legal, policy and regulatory affairs advisor. She will be working with LPRA director Santha Rasaiah and Catherine Courtney across the full range of the NMA’s representative and lobbying work on behalf...

The Get Ready for Brexit campaign is continuing in Featurelink with ads and native content explaining what businesses need to do to prepare for Brexit.   The latest ads have six key steps that businesses can take to prepare for Brexit...

Michael Miller, executive chairman of News Corp Australasia, has called for Google to be banned from using content produced by publishers, and the data generated from it, until they negotiate a fair price for their use with publishers. In a...

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has pledged that the UK will be at the forefront of the defence of journalists across the globe as he announced a new law to exclude human rights abusers from entering the UK at the...

The Guardian has highlighted the importance of local journalism and its ‘case for optimism’ in an article containing interviews with local media journalists, including local democracy reporters. The in -depth article discusses the challenges that the local media industry faces...

The shortlisted entries of the 2019 Royal Rota Photogrpahy Competition has been announced following a public vote.  Last week, thousands of votes were cast in the public vote from a showcase of 48 of the best photographs from Royal and political rota...

Lord Black of Brentwood has highlighted the “serious concerns” among news publishers about the the Information Commissioners Office Age Appropriate Design draft code and has called for a “total exemption” from the scope of the code. Speaking in a House...