Responding to the Chancellor’s comments in the Mail on Sunday this morning, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said: “The proposed removal of licensing application notices from local newspapers would amount to a betrayal of local communities and...

A change to criminal procedure rules to explicitly require proper notification of journalists when discretionary reporting restrictions are applied for in the courts will strengthen the principles of open justice, the News Media Association has said.   Announced today, the...

Responding to the Competition and Markets Authority’s announcement today that it is proposing to designate Apple and Google mobile platforms with strategic market status, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said: “We welcome the Competition and Markets Authority’s...

Responding to the Competition and Markets Authority announcement today that the regulator is proposing to designate Google with strategic market status in general search and search advertising, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said: “We are pleased that...

Creators must continue to rally under the Make it Fair campaign banner to stop government selling the creative sectors down the river for a “short-term, AI-powered sugar rush”, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith has said. In a...

AI technology is accelerating the rise of harmful misinformation on social networks, risking younger people being unable to tell fact from fiction, Financial Times editor Roula Khalaf has said. At a Fleet Street Quarter Festival of Words event supported...

Responding to the government’s strategic steer to the Competition and Markets Authority, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said: “The government has today set out its clear expectation that the Competition and Markets Authority should use all the...

Responding to a speech by BBC director-general Tim Davie in Salford today, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said: “We welcome Tim Davie’s recognition and aim to strengthen our plural local news market. As Ofcom has said, the...

More than 50 businesses, campaigning organisations and individuals have called on the Prime Minister to deliver on the objectives of two key pieces of legislation designed to make the digital ecosystem safer and fairer, as the UK looks to...