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Sir Harold Evans backs Press Gazette Duopoly campaign: 'Facebook and Google...
Press Gazette’s Duopoly campaign warns that Google and Facebook’s dominance over the £10bn UK digital advertising market is squeezing news publishers out of business. Here Sir Harold Evans gives the...
View ArticleSir Harold Evans: Facebook should face MPs to explain 'destructive effect of...
Mark Zuckerberg and his key Facebook operatives should be called to a US Senate inquiry in the US and a Select Committee in the UK. Drip by drip come revelations about how Russian intelligence agents,...
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Why the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation directive could...
At first sight, the European directive: “General Data Protection Regulation” seems a massive constraint on all digital interaction and transaction. In fact, it is the greatest opportunity for content...
View ArticleComment: Trinity Mirror take-over of Express titles has been welcomed - but...
News that Trinity Mirror may buy the Express group of newspapers from Richard ‘banana on a silver tray’ Desmond has been welcomed by many. But we should be careful what we wish for. It would, of...
View ArticleWhat the European Union's GDPR means for journalists and publishers
In ten months the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force. It replaces the Data Protection Act and will ultimately change the way that organisations of every kind handle their...
View ArticleBirmingham Mail editor Marc Reeves on why he is splitting up the title's...
I was struck by Jeff Jarvis’s recent polemic, ‘If I ran a newspaper…’ published on Medium. In it, he quoted an unnamed editor’s description of the predicament he — and many of us — find ourselves in:...
View ArticleCOMMENT: Why cycling journalists should consider boycott of Evans Cycles
According to the Labour Force Survey there are more than 70,000 journalists in the UK – many of whom are cyclists. Jon Snow (pictured above), Andrew Gilligan and Jeremy Vine are three high-profile ones...
View ArticleAnti-tabloid hate campaigns and the shameful sight of a BBC reporter needing...
Last week Evans Cycles said it would be adding the Mail, Express and Sun titles to an advertising blacklist because their content went against the company’s core values. Press Gazette editor Dominic...
View ArticleClosure of UK's tenth biggest selling mag Glamour is a huge blow to the power...
With 260,422 sales a month Glamour was the tenth biggest selling magazine in the UK as ranked by ABC. So news that its monthly edition is to close at the end of the year is a huge blow to the power of...
View ArticleWhen feast turns to famine for a freelance journalist it's the rudeness which...
This week marked World Mental Health day. Here journalist Jim Butler writes candidly about the toll taken when feast turns to famine for a freelance. Tick tock, tick tock… time’s unremitting onward...
View ArticleFacebook and Google say they want to help the news industry - but fine words...
Press Gazette can exclusively reveal that influential journalists were wined and dined at expensive restaurants in London this week separately by senior executives from Google and Facebook. I know...
View ArticleWe need to address journalism's creepy cult of beauty if we want to tackle...
I don’t think broadcast journalism courses assess prospective candidates for their physical beauty. They are generally looking for solid A-levels, enthusiasm and evidence of commitment to a career in...
View ArticleFirst News editor: It's our duty to keep people informed, but also put bad...
This year has been an extreme one for news. We’ve seen a number of terrorist attacks on UK soil, devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean, the worst earthquake to hit Mexico for many years and growing...
View ArticleCOMMENT: What I think about newspapers who go out of their way to avoid...
There’s a story, possibly apocryphal, about Jimmy Greaves who was getting increasingly frustrated with poor refereeing decisions and asked the ref: “If I call you a c**t what would happen?” The ref...
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Facebook pilot scheme removing news stories from main feed looks like shot...
Facebook’s experiment at clearing everything but content from friends and sponsored posts from its main news feed will alarm publishers. The social media giant is already the single biggest source of...
View ArticleComment: Why journalists should stop using the phrase 'committed suicide'
The Suicide Act of 1961 was probably one of the briefest Acts of Parliament ever passed. It simply said that it was “the rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby...
View ArticleDoubling down on open journalism has paid dividends for The Guardian - but it...
Editors and publishers have been throwing spaghetti at the proverbial wall since about 2005 looking for something that sticks when it comes to finding a new economic model for journalism. It seems that...
View ArticleFacebook's subversion of the US election matters in the UK because it is our...
It now looks like Russian operatives made extensive use of Facebook to subvert the US presidential election. The US giant revealed yesterday that as many as 126m Americans may have seen 80,000 posts on...
View ArticleComment: Why Sky, ITV and BBC must stop letting anti-Muslim statements go...
Conscious or unconscious bigotry? That was my quandary after watching Quentin Letts on ITV’s “After The News” on 17 October. On the show, he made the disturbing claim that left-wing activists may have...
View ArticleHow to stop the ongoing sexual harassment of young female journalists in the...
I’ve always considered myself lucky that nearly all of the sexual harassment I’ve suffered while working as a journalist has come from outside the industry. In fact, as a business journalist for six...
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