Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries MP has called on the public to back “our world-renowned news industry” by buying newspapers or going on to news media websites. In an article for the industry’s annual Journalism Matters campaign, which kicks off today,...

News Media Association chairman Henry Faure Walker has said journalism has a critical role to play in helping to tackle some of the most pressing issues we face currently such as the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.  In an article...

The exemption for journalism in the Online Safety Bill must be strengthened to protect UK journalism from being overzealous moderation by American tech platforms who do not understand UK press regulation, David Dinsmore has said. In a speech to the...

Speaking to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Martin Rosebaum, former BBC political journalist and FOI specialist, George Greenwood, data journalist at the Times and Jenna Corderoy, FOI specialist journalist at OpenDemocracy, spoke of the challenges they face...

The Government currently has no plans to change the statutory duty on local authorities to advertise public notices in local papers, a Minister in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has said. Responding to a written question from...

Time is running out for some local publishers unless Government goes further, faster to correct the imbalance between the tech platforms and news publishers, News Media Association chairman Henry Faure Walker will say in a piece for Journalism Matters. In...

Alessandra Bellini, chief customer officer and executive sponsor for D&I at Tesco, is now the Advertising Association’s new president, succeeding Keith Weed. Bellini will work to guide the strategic direction of the Advertising Association in promoting “the role and rights...

Responding to the Prime Minister's announcement today that the Online Safety Bill will have a second reading before Christmas, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said:  “This is vitally important legislation and there is an understandable desire for...

The Making a Difference public vote for the best local and national news media campaigns of the past year is set to go live at the start of the News Media Association’s Journalism Matters weeklong campaign on 1 November.   Campaigns...