Johnston Press has announced that the regional newspaper publisher will be cutting a “significant” number of editorial positions as part of a massive restructuring of their Scottish business. It’s believed that “strategic” changes will be ...

Radio, in many respects, seems anachronistic in an age of social, smart phones and Netflix. The original broadcast medium is still a huge part of the population’s lives though – according to RAJAR, 89% tune ...

At newsrewired yesterday (19 July), Nic Newman from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism presented new research on ‘Brand attribution when accessing news from distributed environments’. The news for most publishers is not ...

As work-related perks go, the occasional personal call from a work-owned mobile phone is hardly excessive. However, according to a recent report from The Press Gazette, regional publisher Newsquest is clamping down on all personal ...

Carolyn McCall has been appointed ITV’s first female chief executive. She will succeed Adam Crozier early next year. McCall is joining ITV from easyJet where she has been chief executive for seven years. She was ...

The Independent recently made the headlines themselves for all the wrong reasons after a freelance journalist accused them of lifting his story from an online news source and refusing to pay for it. According to ...

The BBC is set to cut a number of perks it currently offers its journalists in a bid to save the corporation £80 million. These perks include overtime, an ‘unpredictable hours’ allowance and free taxi ...

The Press Association (PA) has been awarded a €706,000 Google grant to create an automated news service for local press. Working in collaboration with start-up Urbs Media, PA hopes to create 30,000 data-driven stories each ...

Fifteen hyperlocal newspapers have been given the green light to bid for BBC cash to employ a ‘local democracy’ reporter. The scheme, which will give local newspapers the opportunity to tap into an £8 million ...

As problems go, the news that The Great British Bake Off was moving from the BBC to a commercial rival was perhaps more than a little ‘first world’. Beloved presenters, including Mel, Sue and the ...

The BBC has announced plans to overhaul its Children’s programming to tackle competition from the internet. Investing an additional £34m across the next three years, the budget for children’s programming will rise to £124.4m by ...

A six-year-long campaign led by the Glasgow Evening Times has resulted in the Scottish government making sweeping changes to organ donation systems in the country. The campaign, which was launched in 2011, lobbied the Scottish ...

Facebook is working on a feature to support newspaper paywall subscription services via its Instant Articles service. Instant Articles, enables publishers to share content with the social network’s users within the Facebook environment (via the ...

The opening of the inquest into the death of three terrorists shot dead following the London Bridge attack went unreported after Southwark Coroners’ Court failed to alert the press until after the inquest had begun. ...

A group of Facebook content moderators, responsible for removing terrorist-related content from the social network have had their safety compromised after a technical glitch exposed their personal details to terrorist sympathisers and supporters. The bug ...

Theresa May’s deal with the DUP – which pledges an extra £1 billion of funding to Northern Ireland – has dominated headlines today. As May recovers from an election with has left many in her party against ...

Freelance journalists have always faced a number of challenges when it comes to being paid a fair amount for their work. In an age where news aggregation (essentially the re-writing and re-publishing of work) becomes ...

The Welsh Assembly is so concerned about the lack of press coverage it receives it has decided to recruit its own team of journalists to cover news relating to the devolved Welsh Government. According to ...

In recent years industry pros have declared that press releases are dead. Once, one of the most effective modes of PR communication, press releases have been criticised as being used to spam journalists with irrelevant ...

If you’ve ever been outraged by the Mail Online’s sidebar of shame or the questionable comments made by some of its equally questionable columnists and poured scorn on Paul Dacre and The Daily Mail, you ...