Ministers must not bow to pressure from the tech platforms and allow them to launch expensive and time-consuming appeals against the decisions of the Digital Markets Unit, editor of The Sun Victoria Newton has said today. Speaking at the...

Forty-two million people read local news media titles in print and digital every month, according to the latest audience data from JICREG, the local media audience measurement currency. Released during the News Media Association’s Journalism Matters campaign this week,...

The Culture Secretary and Shadow Culture Secretary have today highlighted the vital importance of trusted journalism to society and outlined their plans to support a free and sustainable press. In articles for the News Media Association’s Journalism Matters campaign,...

Over 60 editors, journalists, writers, publishers and experts including the News Media Association are calling on the UK government to commit to a standalone anti-SLAPP law in the King’s Speech. Over 60 editors, journalists, writers, publishers, academics and experts,...

A broad range of organisations interested in sustaining quality journalism have welcomed the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill and its potential to level the relationship between news outlets and tech platforms, while calling for several key measures to...

The government has described the Public Notice Portal as a “welcome innovation” from the local news media sector, while committing to keeping the statutory requirement for public notices to be published in printed local newspapers. In its response to...

The tech platforms’ estimates of the value they create for news outlets are “disingenuous,” with Google returning less than £75 million a year to publishers despite the news sector driving £1 billion in revenues for the platforms, a new...

The News Media Association has welcomed provisions in the Draft Media Bill to repeal Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act. The draft legislation aims to introduce new reforms to guarantee access to UK radio on smart speakers...

The update of the BBC operating licence announced by Ofcom today will give the BBC a free pass to expand its offering, using the licence fee to compete directly with commercial providers, the News Media Association said. Responding to...