Comment: If Welsh Assembly thinks hiring team of journalists is answer to...
Paul Rowland is editor-In-Chief for the Trinity Mirror-owned Media Wales. For almost as long as I can remember, there has been a debate raging in Welsh public life about a so-called democratic deficit:...
View ArticleRegulator is needed to police celebs on social media who run tabloid-bashing...
In a report by human resources experts, if you’ll forgive the oxymoron, guess what they reckon is the worst job of all? Yes, of course, it’s ‘newspaper reporter’ just ahead of ‘broadcaster’. Both...
View ArticleTim Shipman of The Sunday Times on why political journalism is thriving and...
Ever since I became a journalist (20 years ago this autumn) people have been telling me it is a trade that is finished. In fact it is expanding in ways we could never have predicted two decades ago and...
View ArticleWhy the imminent threat from Gulf nations to shut down Al Jazeera should...
As Martin Luther King once said: “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” That’s why all journalists should be alarmed by demands for Qatar to close its TV channel Al Jazeera. Such a...
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Is online journalism going down the toilet?
A Press Gazette reader has sent in a photo montage made up of scatological stories published by Mirror Online. The point they make is that they feel many of these stories fall below the standard...
View ArticleCOMMENT: 'Paul Dacre triumphed by recognising online growth should not come...
Keith Gladdis is a former executive news editor at the Daily Mail. He is currently director at MHP Communications and wrote the following article, reproduced with permission, to accompany the firm’s...
View ArticleGovernment and news organisations need to work to together to solve problem...
Kensington and Chelsea Council wanted to have a council meeting without journalists. When the journalists turned up, they had a hissy fit. Residents of Grenfell Tower want to know why the press never...
View ArticleComment: Why The Independent is on shaky ground ethically and legally by...
The Independent appears to have thrown caution and ethics to the wind by apparently lifting copy from another news organisation without payment or consent. Its behaviour, highlighted in the Press...
View ArticleFacebook and Google can dictate terms to publishers - yet competition law...
News organisations in the US have sought to strike a blow against one of the central legal obstacles stopping them competing more fairly with digital giants Google and Facebook. They are seeking a...
View ArticleWhy scientists should speak to journalists about stories like that involving...
Tom Sheldon is senior press manager at the Science Media Centre There can’t be many people in the UK who haven’t heard of Charlie Gard. He’s a little boy with mitochondrial disease who is on life...
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Press Gazette argues case for tackling Facebook/Google duopoly in...
It’s official – the future is looking great for online publishing. At least that was the view taken at a debate in the Houses of Parliament organised by the Internet Advertising Bureau and the...
View ArticleImpress-brokered libel payout in Rice versus Byline leaves neither side happy...
The first libel arbitration settlement brokered by press regulator Impress has left neither side happy and set a precedent which may alarm other publishers. At one level, Byline Media can count itself...
View ArticleBBC should cap journalists' pay at £150,000 and use saving to fund local...
I don’t begrudge anyone who gets filthy rich out of journalism. If the opportunity to do so came my way I would grab the cash with both hands and spend it immediately on a solid gold top hat. But the...
View ArticleSource: 'Ripping culture' at national newspaper website prompts most graduate...
The “ripping culture” at one national newspaper website has led to more than half its graduate trainee intake for the last two years abandoning journalism for PR. This is what one verified source at...
View ArticleSurvey: How much has Duopoly dominance impacted sustainable journalism models?
Sam Jermy, a former B2B editor, is conducting a research project on journalism business models in partnership with Press Gazette’s Duopoly Campaign. He details why now is the time for bold decisions...
View ArticleUnlike newspapers, the fees PR agencies pay have gone up with inflation - no...
Graduate trainee journalists are apparently increasingly jumping ship to the world of PR after discovering their original chosen profession is not as glamorous as they thought. And quite frankly, is...
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Daily Express editor Hugh Whittow on why there can be no doubt that we have...
With a circulation of just under 400,000 per day, the Daily Express is the smallest of the big four pro-Brexit newspaper titles (the others are The Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail). But it has been the...
View ArticlePR emails should get to the point, not act like an American waiter asking how...
This week, some NAPA agencies got a press release from one of those PR companies they’ve never actually spoken to. It had the subject line: “We’re all going on a summer holiday.” So far, so good. Must...
View ArticleWith 18 UK local newspapers gone this summer Google and Facebook need to act...
Time is running out for much of the UK’s regional press. Over the summer 17 weekly newspapers have closed as well as 163-year-old daily the Oldham Chronicle (see full list below). Elsewhere, surviving...
View ArticleGuardian legal chief Gill Phillips on the chilling effect of Law Commission...
This week The Guardian published leaked Brexit proposals from the Government which set out strict new plans for a “British workers first” immigration policy. Here Guardian head of legal services Gill...
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