A Supreme Court judge has urged courts authorities to consider the “importance and universality of the principles of open justice” when framing the rules for courts in the United Kingdom. Delivering the judgment in the case Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd...

Simon Fox is to step down from his position as chief executive of Reach on 16 August to be succeeded by Jim Mullen, the publisher has announced. Jim was most recently chief executive of Ladbroke Coral plc. His previous roles include...

Edwards Faulks QC, Lord Faulks, has been appointed as the chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, with effect from 1 January 2020, the IPSO Appointments Panel has announced. Edward Faulks has a long career as a barrister specialising in...

Peers have called for the extension of the Freedom of Information Act to cover private contractors performing public services, quoting the News Media Association’s support for reform of the legislation in a parliamentary debate. Tabling a question for short debate,...

Councillors in Wirral have voted to axe the council’s monthly newspaper Wirral View stating that more than £400,000 had been wasted on a publication which had “failed against every measure the cabinet set for it.” The council faced a backlash...

Nicky Morgan, MP for Loughborough, has been appointed Culture Secretary in last night’s Cabinet reshuffle. Ms Morgan served as Education Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities from July 2014 until 14 July 2016. During that time, she was the guest...

Facebook is to pay $5 billion, the largest ever civil penalty in a United States data privacy case, to settle allegations that it misled users about the extent to which third-party application developers could access users’ personal information.   The Department...

Past Making a Difference winning campaigns are continuing to support and improve local communities such as The News and Star’s hospital campaign #SaveOurServices, and The Dundee Courier and Advertiser’s dementia campaign, Franks Law. Making a Difference, run by Local Media...

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland have announced the launch of the new media freedom coalition following the global conference for media freedom last week. The coalition will be formed by Governments who sign up to a...