Specialist bursaries have been awarded awarded to six Journalism Diversity Fund recipients, providing a boost to students from diverse backgrounds starting their career in journalism.  Administered by the NCTJ, the JDF has supported more than 500 students from diverse...

The News Media Association has issued over 1,200 cards to newsgatherers working in the news media industry so far this year. The number issued so far in 2022 represents a small rise on the same period last year.  ...

Sir Ray Tindle was a man of “impeccable manners and clear sense of purpose” who ran his newspaper business with “decency, pride and acute business acumen,” a packed memorial service for the newspaper industry icon in Farnham heard.  Former Newspaper...

The News Media Association has welcomed the publication of the fourth edition of the ‘Reporting Restrictions in the Criminal Courts’ guide which makes extensive revisions to the previous edition in order to promote open justice and reporting criminal court...

Behind Local News is to host its annual conference with an agenda-setting programme of topics and annual awards recognising women in journalism during the week of the industry’s Journalism Matters campaign. The Behind Local News Conference will be held at the...

The Financial Times and Google have committed to significantly expand the FT Strategies programme that supports publishers in their business and digital transformation. Over the next three years, the programme – part of the Google News Initiative publisher programmes...

The legislation urgently needed to level the playing field between news publishers and the tech platforms will be brought forward in this Parliamentary session, the Culture Secretary confirmed at the Conservative Party conference. Michelle Donelan MP said during a...

Tindle Newspapers has purchased the weekly title the Woking News & Mail, extending its reach into the Surrey marketplace. The acquisition follows Tindle Newspapers’ purchase of eight titles in the Voice series, based in Truro, Cornwall, announced last month....

The 2022 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers, has been awarded to Gazeta Wyborcza and the Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation in Poland. The award, made during the 2022 World News...