Trinity Mirror has announced it will close three local freesheets in Milton Keynes, Luton and Northampton in what is being described as an ongoing purge of Local World titles.  According to the National Union of Journalists, ...

The left leaning news website set up a just over 12 months ago on an initial investment of just £500 is proving that online journalism can pay if you give you readers what they want. ...

There is little doubt that journalism, as a career, is undergoing more than a little disruption at the hands of technology. The recent news that Press Association are about to start employing robot reporters will do ...

Newspaper publishers may finally have a real reason to fear Google. The internet search engine recently announced that it is to launch a fact-checking service on its news pages. Google is partnering with a number of ...

OK, let’s assume for just one moment that former London Mayor, current Foreign Secretary and let’s not forget, until recently one of the best-paid newspaper journalists in the country, did just pen an article about ...

New York Times chief executive Mark Thompson blames 24/7 news channels and the Internet for the decline in news quality at many news organisations. But the former BBC man isn’t joining the baying mob of ...

There is a lot of excitement amongst journalists and publishers about the opportunity of hyper-local newspapers and websites but is this sudden lurch to small news sustainable? The publishing trade press, desperate for a good ...

The government is considering plans for Channel 4 which could shake up the UK’s creative economy outside of the nation’s capital. Nothing is off the table and ideas currently being discussed include privatisation and a ...

The Independent and Huffington Post both fell foul and reported on spoof tweet which they believed had been posted by the French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen. The tweet heaped praise on Theresa May’s recent speech ...

Classified advertising used to be the financial engine behind many newspaper businesses. Recruitment, property and motors advertising, alongside birth, marriage and death notices (BMDs) might have been small in stature – but before the Internet ...

With over twenty-three thousand followers under his belt, Kevin McAulay is a bonafide Instagram Influencer. Although he doesn’t see himself as being ‘instafamous’ he does admit to being recognised in the street on a regular basis. His rise to ...

The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), owner of the Daily Mail and Mail Online has announced that the company is looking to cut costs by £50 million in a strategic review of its business operations. ...

At a time when British sport is riding high in the general publics’ affections, largely following the huge successes of Team GB in the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the national game (football) is ...

Communicating with different stakeholders and reaching niche audiences is something Lansons, a reputation management consultancy has had years of experience doing. Over the last 25 years the company has adapted to the ever-changing communications landscape – ...

UK newspaper publishers will be hoping there is a degree of truth in the old saying: “When America sneezes, the world catches a cold”. In fact, if the news that print titles in the US are ...

In the same week that UK newspaper publishers delivered a briefing to government ministers highlighting their concerns about how the technology giants like Google and Facebook are impacting on the industry and calling out for regulation ...

Ad-blockers could soon be targeting social media influencers and sponsored content according to a recent report in PR Week. Speaking at a Social Media Week fringe event in London last week, Matt Sykes, head of ...

The company behind one of the world’s most popular ad-blocking systems which has been accused of disrupting online publishers’ ability to generate revenue from their websites has launched its own advertising sales platform. Adblocks Plus, whose ...

Trinity Mirror is to hand back four of their eight current regional franchises for The Metro free newspaper to DMGT in January 2018. It is reported the titles in Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands and Scotland are ...

Social media dictates that conversations between brands and the public happen in real time. God forbid that a slight customer niggle aired on Twitter or Facebook could create the sparks that burns a brands ambitions ...