'The more chaos, the more people need independent news': News industry shares...
Reading the near-600 responses to our survey looking at one year of lockdown for the news industry, some contradictory themes have emerged. Last month we asked our 10,000 newsletter subscribers what...
View ArticleHuffpost cuts were 'brutal', says insider, as rivals provide lesson in making...
Huffpost has become the latest of the new digital-only newsbrands to fail, not in its journalism but in its ability to make news pay. The title has been bought by Buzzfeed, which was forced to axe its...
View ArticleFuture of media: Shift in emphasis as Press Gazette focuses in on the big...
Sharp-eyed readers will notice Press Gazette has tweaked its masthead slogan, replacing “Fighting for Journalism” with “The Future of Media”. This doesn’t mean that we are going to stop “fighting for...
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How to add Press Gazette to your mobile phone home screen
Press Gazette does not have a mobile phone app – however our website is optimised for mobile and it is easy to add it to your home screen for free, this offering all the functionality of an app...
View ArticleEx-BBC journalist Kurt Barling 'bigotry' and media: Racism exists everywhere,...
Former BBC special correspondent and serving journalism professor Kurt Barling shares his view and experience of racism in the UK media as part of a series of articles in Press Gazette following...
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Liz Gerard investigates press bigotry and the claim Meghan Markle coverage...
Prince Harry’s assertion that the UK tabloid press is bigoted and racist forced the resignation of Society of Editors executive director Ian Murray earlier this month when he issued a blanket denial of...
View ArticlePrince Harry highlighted an issue for the news industry which needs to be...
I think the UK news industry may owe a debt of gratitude to Prince Harry. They are words I never thought I would write given Harry’s often fractious relationship with the media. I was initially...
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Reuters newsroom diversity editor: Leadership must change if we are to be...
As Reuters publishes its first newsroom diversity report the global news agency’s newsroom diversity editor Joyce Adeluwoye-Adams reflects on how the global news agency needs to change. We have known...
View ArticleMarcus Ryder on race and the media: Something is horribly wrong
British Journalism Award winner and leading authority on media diversity Marcus Ryder MBE gives his take on the issue following Press Gazette’s race and the media survey. When we talk about the racism...
View ArticleWhy stockbroker Capital.com is building a newsroom: 'Journalism was never...
Why is online stockbroker Capital.com currently recruiting 30 journalists? Press Gazette was intrigued by the number of vacancies being advertised and asked the site’s head of content Chris Wheal to...
View ArticleComment: Burden of fixing racism in the media should not sit with victims
In the latest of a series of Press Gazette articles looking at diversity and the media, Barbara Blake Hannah Award winner Kuba Shand-Baptise reflects on the Press Gazette survey which last week...
View ArticleThe death of the newsroom means the end of journalism as we know it
This article first appeared in Reaction. This may come across as a cliché but it’s true: I became a journalist because I watched a film about a couple of journalists bringing down the most powerful man...
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Remembering when Fleet Street journalists blagged their way into Prince...
Madeline Clark, the daughter of former Daily Mail journalist Harry Procter, tells the story of the night her father and a group of other Fleet Street journalists managed to gatecrash Prince Philip’s...
View ArticleAlan Rusbridger shares lessons of Guardian's success: News sells and purpose...
Not many companies these days survive more than 20 years before they are gobbled up or die. Yet here’s the Guardian – mocked, loved; vilified, treasured – putting 200 candles on its birthday cake and...
View ArticleWho owns the news in the US? New analysis reveals top owners and publishers
Heidi Legg of Harvard University’s Future of Media project examines who owns the news in the US. Once, we knew who owned our news sources. For many big newspapers, we still do: the Sulzbergers at The...
View ArticleHow the pandemic ushered in a golden era for celebrity interviews
Freelance lifestyle and entertainment journalist Nick McGrath explores an unlikely up-side to coronavirus for journalists As social distancing restrictions fall away like Keir Starmer’s fragile...
View ArticleFuture of the newsroom: Can we rekindle the fire of the editorial conference...
With many publishers looking to close their offices forever and move to permanent home or hybrid working – Chris Blackhurst looks at the future of the newsroom and the all-important editorial...
View ArticleDyson report shows culture where those who protect BBC fail upwards while...
The Dyson report exposes a pattern in the way the BBC deals with scandals and mistakes. Those who fail to expose and address wrongdoing at the BBC, whilst protecting its reputation, fail upwards....
View ArticleMax Mosley helped bring down a newspaper, tame the tabloids and shift the...
Goodbye Max Mosley, the motorsport executive who helped bring Rupert Murdoch to his knees and had a huge impact on the tabloid media. Mosley was a relatively obscure figure to most until his sexual...
View ArticleBBC's disregard for FoI and victimisation of whistleblowers among unresolved...
Update 27/5/21: One week after the Dyson report the BBC is addressing issues around its governance and culture and the rehiring of Martin Bashir – but victimisation of whistleblowers and the...
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