This year’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report has found that the Covid-19 pandemic has driven the need for trusted and reliable news, with news brands seeing a rise in subscriptions and trust. In the UK, the pandemic has increased news...

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has condemned the forced closure of a Hong Kong newspaper describing the move as “a chilling blow to freedom of expression.” The Times reported that the publisher has come under frequent attack by the authorities since...

News Media Europe has joined seven other European media associations, calling EU decision-makers to strengthen the position of editorial media towards online platforms in the Digital Services Act. Online platforms attract up to millions of users with editorial content that...

News Media Association chairman Henry Faure Walker, Newsquest chief executive, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The honour has been given for services to regional news journalism and charity. Mr Faure Walker has been chief...

The abuse and harassment of journalists has no place in our democratic society, the News Media Association has said, after a BBC reporter was forced to flee a mob of anti-lockdown protestors on Monday. Newsnight political editor Nick Watt was...

The News Media Association’s Cathryn Nicoll Award will once again showcase the work of young journalists in the local news media sector. Part of the Society of Editors Regional Press Awards, the award rewards brilliant feature writing by young journalists,...

The Ozone Project has announced HELLO! as its latest partner to join its alliance, bolstering the platform’s view of celebrity, culture and lifestyle content consumption. The addition of HELLO! creates an even greater opportunity for advertisers to reach the upmarket,...

An influential committee of MPs has backed the News Media Association’s call for public notices to stay in printed local newspapers arguing that removing the requirement on councils to publish in local papers would create “a postcode lottery as...

The Competition and Markets Authority has launched a probe into whether Facebook has gained an unfair advantage over competitors in providing services for online classified ads and online dating, through how it gathers and uses certain data. The firm collects data...