Local and national newsbrands are urged to support an IPA ad campaign encouraging advertisers to increase their investment in ad spend in the coming year. The ads promote IPA research which shows that companies which increased their marketing budgets during...

Political propaganda masquerading as independent local news damages public trust in both local news media and politicians, the News Media Association has said, following fresh outburst over the publication of another fake newspaper. Political material masquerading as independent local news...

Concern is mounting over plans to introduce a new far reaching copyright exception which content creators fear will have a “severe negative impact” on UK rights holders such as news media publishers. In a letter to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng,...

This year’s Journalism Matters week, the annual News Media Association campaign to highlight the importance of trusted journalism to our society, will take place this year from 31 October to 6 November. Last year, hundreds of local and national titles...

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have pledged to back the regional press but editors have a duty to keep the pressure on to ensure promises are delivered on,  Norwich Evening News editor Richard Porritt has said.  Both candidates to be...

The Times and The Sunday Times will host the first ever Times Earth Business Summit on 20 October aimed at a business leadership audience.  It will focus on the latest in investment, science, innovation, finance, legislation and politics to inform decisive...

Newsquest is launching its Cash For Charities giveaway offering readers of its 170 news brands the opportunity to nominate local charities to receive financial support in the form of a cash grant from the company. This year up to 80...

Liz Truss has matched Rishi Sunak’s commitments to promote the sustainability of journalism by taking forward in the autumn the legislation underpinning the Digital Markets Unit and repealing Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. Asked in an interview...

The number of cloned and ripped-off news articles successfully taken down from “pretty sophisticated fake sites” on behalf of UK publishers more than doubled in 2021 compared to the year before. NLA Media Access got more than 50,000 articles removed...