BBC Two should clear its schedule for live educational programming during...
The BBC’s mission is to inform, educate and entertain the nation. It should now come to the rescue of Britain’s Covid-battered education system and step in to create live educational programming for...
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The awkward lessons of my privileged lockdown in Sussex
With apologies and in affectionate homage to Shruti Advani and the FT. As a salaried journalist blessed with multiple credit cards and an overdraft I’ve been insulated from the worst effects of...
View ArticleDamian Collins MP: Social media firms must take responsibility for harmful...
We are living through the first major public health emergency in the age of social media disinformation. Where the disinformation that is spreading online is not just about politics and elections. It...
View ArticleDaily Mail's move to print pole position is important moment, but only part...
The headline wrote itself, but as ever the story behind it is far more nuanced. In May, the Daily Mail sold more copies per day than The Sun making it the top-selling daily newspaper in the UK for the...
View ArticleTimes Radio launch-day verdict: A cautious thumbs-up for Rupert Murdoch's...
Launching a new national talk-based radio station in the midst of a pandemic lockdown could not have been easy. But News UK pulled it off yesterday with barely a hitch. And on the whole it fulfilled...
View ArticleThe public don't trust media - but they need journalists and the courts to...
From accusations of bias to blaming the media for public upset over the Barnard Castle trip, attacks on the media are rife. Worryingly, the Oxford University Reuters Institute’s 2020 Digital News...
View ArticleFacebook ads backlash looks like common sense, not censorship
Press Gazette has been accused on Twitter of being ‘effing hypocrites’ for suggesting brands are right to boycott Facebook whilst previously signalling our opposition to the StopFundingHate campaign...
View ArticleWhy publishers should beware content deals with tech giants which replace...
It’s interesting that, just after Google announced that it’s going to start paying publishers, the New York Times said it is pulling out of Apple News. Those two events tell us a lot about the way...
View ArticleNew committee for journalists' safety promises national action plan as first...
In every country, journalists perform a vital function in highlighting injustice, exposing corruption and holding Governments to account. A free media is one of the essential bulwarks of a free...
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View ArticleHow the pandemic is being used by some as an excuse to clamp down on press...
The coronavirus crisis is a human rights crisis – and an opportunity for governments to intensify their attacks on press freedom and freedom of speech Death threats, prosecution, online smear campaigns...
View Article'Bleak horizon' for journalists as Hong Kong security law means redefining...
While it doubtlessly compromises the survival of the pro-democracy protest movement by exposing demonstrators and activists to arrests, the new national security law for Hong Kong also puts press...
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Google's battle with Australian news industry: Search giant is 'trying to...
If you went to use Google [in Australia] yesterday, you may have been met with a pop-up, warning that the tech giant’s functionality was “at risk” from new Australian government regulation. Google...
View ArticleEpic battle lies ahead for news publishers to get a fair revenue share from...
News publishers can only look on with envy at the success of Epic Games – the US-based tech firm behind addictive online team shoot-em-up Fortnite. With revenues thought to exceed £2bn a year – that is...
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TikTok: Why publishers need to start taking it seriously
TikTok, a social media platform targeted at young mobile phone users, was the second-most downloaded app in the world in 2019. It was the most downloaded app in July 2020. It’s also become a...
View ArticlePeter Oborne on Julian Assange: Future generations of journalists will not...
Let’s imagine a foreign dissident was being held in London’s Belmarsh Prison charged with supposed espionage offences by the Chinese authorities. And that his real offence was revealing crimes...
View ArticleBritish Journalism Awards workshop for new entrants - 10 September, 1pm
The British Journalism Awards is this year making entry free to our awards for any journalists who are either female and/or from a BAME background if they do not have a news organisation able to pay...
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How events are adapting to post-Covid world: A photographer's view
With event organisers now successfully adapting to the new normal and navigating how to produce events safely, we are experiencing the return of much-loved red carpet moments. Restrictions on attendees...
View ArticleMarketing Matters: Sign up for Press Gazette's new free fortnightly briefing...
Advertising was the great democratising force which brought journalism to the masses. In the pre-internet age, when a few companies controlled access to vast print and broadcast audiences, selling...
View Article$1bn news fund is one small step for Google, but a giant leap for principle...
Three and half years ago when Press Gazette launched our Duopoly campaign to “stop Google and Facebook destroying journalism” it was seen as misguided by many. The tech monopolies may have been...
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