An influential committee of MPs has voiced “urgent concerns” that protections for freedom of expression in the Online Safety Bill are inadequate and should be strengthened. The News Media Association welcomed the DCMS Select Committee’s recommendation to strengthen protections...

The News Media Association has said that any further BBC investment in local news provision must be channelled through partnership initiatives such as the Local News Partnership and not through ramping up its own local services after Tim Davie...

The UK should not be tempted to adopt a more permissive regime for text and data mining which could further boost the ability of platforms and aggregators to profit from news publishers’ journalism without their consent, the News Media...

The Bury Times broke the news of a local MP’s defection from the Conservative Party to Labour amid speculation about Boris Johnson’s future as Prime Minister. The paper broke the story of Bury South MP Christian Wakeford’s online minutes ahead...

In an open letter to BBC Board from News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith on behalf of the NMA Board and members, the NMA has called on the BBC to withdraw plans to expand its provision of lcoal...

MPs overwhelmingly believe that commercial local news media is vital for communities and must not be crowded out by the BBC expanding its own local news services, new research commissioned by the News Media Association has revealed. Seventy-six per cent...

MPs have welcomed the Joint Committee on the draft Online Safety Bill's report and urged the government to adopt its recommendations. MPs said yesterday that the government’s commitment to protecting free speech should run “like a golden thread through the...

Media reporting of the courts has a vital role in underpinning public confidence in the justice system, the President of the Family Division told MPs this week. Last year, Sir Andrew McFarlane announced a major programme of reform designed to...

The European Commission published an open public consultation on the upcoming European Media Freedom Act this week. Vice President for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová said: “Media are a pillar of democracy. But today this pillar is cracking, with attempts...