Creators must continue to rally under the Make it Fair campaign banner to stop government selling the creative sectors down the river for a “short-term, AI-powered sugar rush”, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith has said. In a...

AI technology is accelerating the rise of harmful misinformation on social networks, risking younger people being unable to tell fact from fiction, Financial Times editor Roula Khalaf has said. At a Fleet Street Quarter Festival of Words event supported...

Responding to the government’s strategic steer to the Competition and Markets Authority, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said: “The government has today set out its clear expectation that the Competition and Markets Authority should use all the...

Responding to a speech by BBC director-general Tim Davie in Salford today, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said: “We welcome Tim Davie’s recognition and aim to strengthen our plural local news market. As Ofcom has said, the...

More than 50 businesses, campaigning organisations and individuals have called on the Prime Minister to deliver on the objectives of two key pieces of legislation designed to make the digital ecosystem safer and fairer, as the UK looks to...

Local news media plays a unique and vital role in society and is a cornerstone of our democracy, King Charles has said today. Ahead of a reception for regional media in the UK at Buckingham Palace this evening, King...

Sayra Tekin, legal director at the News Media Association, has welcomed a coroner’s decision to revisit a ruling, after a challenge from the media. Crispin Butler, the HM Senior Coroner for Buckinghamshire, announced last October that an inquest into...

The UK’s creative industries have today launched a bold campaign to highlight how their content is at risk of being given away for free to AI firms as the government proposes weakening copyright law. A government consultation seeking views...

Responding to a report from The Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge that cautions against the government’s proposals to degrade copyright law in favour of AI firms, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith...