Facebook is on a mission to stamp out fake news on its news feeds and disrupt the business models that facilitate it. Nick Wrenn, Facebook’s head of news partnerships for Europe, told journalists that while their minds ...

A new report from anti-fascist organisation Hope not Hate has identified UK blogging and social media platforms as an emerging platform for the alt-right, while traditional networks, such as the English Defence League, are fragmenting. ...

News UK, publishers of The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times, is offering aspiring journalists and digital developers the opportunity to attend an expenses-paid, week-long summer school. The summer school will be open to ...

Johnston Press, publisher of newspaper titles including The Yorkshire Post, The Scotsman and The i, have released an optimistic trading update despite a continued decline in the revenues. While revenues, which included a boost from the ...

When you think of hyperlocal news outlets, you probably think about tiny publications and websites covering the towns and villages left behind by mainstream news publishers. However, one hyperlocal title is making a big splash ...

News UK, publishers of The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times, is offering aspiring journalists and digital developers the opportunity to attend an expenses-paid, week-long summer school. The summer school will be open to ...

Executives from News Corp, publishers of The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times, have visited Downing Street more times than any other company in the UK in recent years according to a recent report ...

The Manchester Evening News was pranked into publishing a fake news story about a “naked streak” supposedly taking place in the city to raise funds for the Manchester Pride Community Fund. The fake story was ...

Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler has issued guidance to his agency staff on how they should cover US politics under the Trump administration. In a post on the Reuters site, Adler commented on the work the agency ...

The anonymous nature of the web, particularly online forums and social media networks, has for many years served to embolden an army of whistle-blowers, concerned-consumers and, at the other end of the spectrum, Internet Trolls. ...

Proving just how much power social media influencers have, the new First lady Melania Trump has filed a lawsuit against a political blogger who reported rumours that she worked as a high-end escort. A judge ...

Newspaper publishing presses are very much like commercial aircraft, they cost millions to build and lose money when not “in flight”. For newspapers like The Guardian who have seen their print sales plummet in recent ...

Facebook is making significant changes to the way it handles “trending news” as part of a concerted effort to remove “fake news” from the social network. Instead of focusing on individual items that have drawn a ...

Arron Banks, the multi-millionaire businessman, who donated more than £7 million to Nigel Farage’s Leave.EU campaign ahead of the Brexit referendum and who recently faced criticism after his name appeared in the Panama Papers linking him ...

While Barack Obama was the first American politician to turn to social media in his race for the Whitehouse, you could argue that Donald Trump was the first to use the medium (especially Twitter) to ...

Bloggers might relish the opportunity to “let rip” in their own small part of cyberspace but they should remember they are bound by the same laws professional journalists must adhere to. For example, defamation is ...

There are very few presidents who had the charisma, charm, eloquence, coolness and global appeal as Barack Obama. Described as one of the greatest orators of his generation, Obama was one of a kind. But ...

It’s not often that the work of a humble TV reviewer from a Sunday broadsheet hits the headlines and goes viral – but we are living in strange times. Damien Love, a TV reviewer for ...

The BBC has always been a more cautious news provider than many of its commercial rivals. This was highlighted during the recent Brussels Airport terrorist attack when television and online news channels rushed to social ...

User generated content such as comments added to online articles have always divided opinion. At worst, online comments are nothing more than abusive rants and incoherent spam. Occasionally, comments are (often unintentionally) very funny. TV Comedian ...