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NUJ general secretary's message to Reach CEO on eve of strike: 'Bet on your...
Reach journalists across the UK and Ireland are preparing to start a series of walkouts on Friday 26 August. Here, National Union of Journalists general secretary Michelle Stanistreet (pictured) writes...
View ArticleWhat content-first success at Disney+ and Immediate Media can teach...
Christine Hayes is group editor in chief (BBC Good Food and Olive) at Immediate Media. Here she writes for Press Gazette about what publishers chasing subscription growth can learn from Disney+’s...
View ArticleTim Walker on why he thinks Boris Johnson has poisoned the well of journalism
As Boris Johnson steps down as Prime Minister, former Telegraph columnist Tim Walker, author of the soon-to-be-revived play Bloody Difficult Women and writer for the New European, explains why he...
View ArticleAgency boss: UK newspaper freelance rates so low my daughter can earn more...
Jon Harris, the chairman of the National Association of Press Agencies and managing director of Manchester-based news agency Cavendish Press, says “timewarp” fees paid by the UK’s national newspapers...
View ArticlePPA: New Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has 'huge opportunity' to support...
It was not so long ago that the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) was known as the “Ministry of Fun”, but the brief is now central to government policy, writes Sebastian Cuttill...
View ArticleThe marketing view: The importance of technology
According to US business review Insider Intelligence, marketing tech spending is set to grow by 14.3% this year and surpass $20 billion for the first time. This forecast involved insight from companies...
View ArticleReview: FT and Netflix’s Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard is a wild...
Netflix’s financial crime documentary Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard poses the question: why join MI6 when you can enjoy all the glamour and security threats of the James Bond life as a journalist?...
View ArticleLocal newspaper walk-ins: The good, the bad and the downright strange
For ten brutal minutes, Sam Blackledge stared at a photo of a bruise. The man who brought the photo into the office of the Plymouth Herald watched him eagerly, waiting for Blackledge to see… what? A...
View ArticleHow journalists can report on cost of living crisis without alienating...
The cost of living crisis has been high on the news agenda this year. Like populist leaders, economic news usually finds the limelight and a mainstream audience during times of public discontent and...
View ArticleLawyer: What to do about deepfake and metaverse libel threat to publishers
Most of us likely have a degree of familiarity with the term “deepfake” – they’ve become increasingly common. For those who are less familiar, a deepfake is a life-like digital impersonation, usually...
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GB News royal reporter recalls going into deep end for Queen's death...
In April, Cameron Walker landed his first TV reporting role – covering the royal family for GB News. Until then the former ITV News trainee had been working behind the scenes as a producer on the...
View ArticleUnanswered questions for news industry after Elon Musk's Twitter buyout
Elon Musk has completed his takeover of Twitter, prompting questions over how far he will take his pursuit of free speech versus the need for online safety. Musk has tweeted in recent days about his...
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Tears, fury and thunder: BBC staff reaction to local radio cutbacks
Last week, the BBC announced plans to cut 139 staff roles at its local radio stations around England. In the proposal, through which the BBC is repurposing £19m from radio budgets into online and...
View ArticleCharging journalists for Twitter would be bad business and a blow to press...
Elon Musk has more chance flying one of his SpaceX rockets to Alpha Centauri than he does persuading most journalists to pay for their blue tick status on Twitter. But it is not just a bad strategy...
View ArticleWhy Canada must make rules around Duopoly publisher payments transparent
Canada stands poised to become the second country after Australia to pass legislation – known as the Online News Act of C-18 – that will force Google and Facebook to pay for news. Here, Heidi Legg, a...
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Mapped: How global are Semafor's coverage and audience?
Ahead of launch, media start-up Semafor promised to be “a global newsroom” that would serve “the 200 million or so English speakers with college degrees”. Signalling that intent, the organisation began...
View ArticleFormer regional press boss Neil Benson on how BBC and big tech fuelled...
Over 16 years as editorial director and group executive editor of the UK’s largest local newspaper group Trinity Mirror (now called Reach) Neil Benson presided over more than 40 cost-saving...
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