StokeonTrent Live successfully applied for reporting restrictions to be lifted to name a 17-year-old who attacked a man with a machete in a terrifying street mugging. The teenager, who was only 16 at the time of the robbery, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years...

New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner John Edwards is the Government’s preferred candidate for Information Commissioner, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden announced today. He will replace Elizabeth Denham whose term as Information Commissioner ends on 31 October. Mr Edwards will now...

The deadline to submit evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the Cabinet Office’s “FOI clearing house” has been extended until the end of next month. The News Media Association supported a successful legal bid by...

World News Day, a global campaign to display support for journalists and their audiences organised by the Canadian Journalism Foundation and WAN-IFRA's World Editors Forum, will take place on 28 September.   The campaign hopes to unite more than 300 news...

Digital publishing revenues in the UK increased to £152 million in Q1 2021, up by 31.9 per cent in comparison to Q1 2020, according to a new report. During Q1 2021, display advertising held its place as the largest category...

The News Media Association has backed the industry’s call to Boris Johnson to act on his promise to evacuate Afghan journalists who have helped shine a spotlight on recent events in the country.   In an open letter to the Prime...

The pandemic has reaffirmed the importance of trusted local news and information but the business of local news provision remains challenging, News Media Association chairman Henry Faure Walker has said. In a piece in the FT on local news, publishers...

The News Media Association has issued 1045 cards to newsgatherers working in the news media industry so far this year. Press cards are formally recognised by all police forces in the UK, by the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Households...

IPSO has today announced Lord Triesman as the chair of its independent appointments panel, succeeding Sir Hayden Phillips KCB DL, the inaugural chair, whose term concludes on 7 September. Lord Triesman is a Labour Peer, the former National Chair of the...