European publishers have welcomed the European Commission’s decision to send Apple a statement of objections, following a complaint introduced by Spotify in 2019. Like Spotify, European news publishers suffer from Apple’s anti-competitive commercial practices, News Media Europe, of...

Eight out of 10 people want to put their differences aside and come together as a nation, a new study reveals.   Against a backdrop of Brexit and the pandemic, 74 per cent of those surveyed admitted that in recent years they had lost...

The tech giants’ share of ad spend soared during the coronavirus pandemic while every other media sector, including the investors in content which has kept people informed during the crisis, reported dramatic declines. Published this morning, the full year ad...

    The new regime to crack down on online harms propagated by the tech platforms will not impact upon the distribution of journalistic content on social media platforms with “robust protections” included in the legislation, John Whittingdale has said.   Speaking at...

The Australian competition authority has granted interim authorisation for local and regional publishers to negotiate collectively with Facebook and Google over payments to publishers for their news content that appears on the platforms. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission...

The report, which has been written by press freedom NGOs and media and journalists organisations to the Council of Europe Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists, has found that in Europe “extraordinary damage was...

Reporters Without Borders published their 2021 World Press Freedom Index this week, showing that “journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 74 per cent of the 180 countries ranked”. The Index reveals that journalism is...

The Government has been urged to extend Freedom of Information Act to contractors providing public goods and services as part of plans for post-Brexit public procurement. The Government’s ‘Transforming Public Procurement’ green paper uses the terms “transparent” or...

MailOnline is suing Google in the United States for alleged anti-competitive behaviour claiming Google exploits its dominance in the ad tech industry to harm rivals and manipulate ad auctions and news search results in a way that punishes online...