Facebook, along with the wider social web, has faced much criticism in recent years for the spreading of “fake news”. Fake news is something that the social network has stated that it is committed to fight. ...

Magazine publisher Future has reported a staggering 375% year-on-year increase in profits, with a cool £3.8 million profit generated in the six months to March 31. Revenues have climbed by 35% to $41 million with ...

Not all heroes wear capes or actively court publicity. Some prefer to work quietly in the background keeping us all safe. Maintaining your anonymity is understandable when you are fighting international criminal gangs and stopping ...

It’s pretty clear where the majority of the UK’s “popular” press hold their political allegiances. Most of the so-called “red tops” are red only in the colour of the mastheads. So does the loyalty go ...

What can you buy for 10p these days? Very little but one newspaper editor is hoping a 10p rise in their cover price will buy them a future in journalism. The editor of The Guernsey ...

Magazine Publisher Hearst has announced it will be moving into new office space in the heart of London’s West End. The move will see all of Hearst’s titles, which include Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire and Inside Soap, ...

A judge removed two journalists from the press bench at the trial where a teenager was later found guilty of stabbing a police dog and his handler. The judge was concerned that a full press bench ...

A senior QC has claimed that the local media has largely abandoned press benches at court houses and “The public receive no professional narrative of the way we arrive at justice.” Bar Council chairman Andrew Langdon ...

George Osborne, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, started his first full working day as the editor of the Evening Standard with a promise. Osborne told journalists as he strolled into the office with a bundle of ...

Less than a year after Ariana Huffington announced that she was stepping down as editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, the popular news site has rebranded itself as HuffPost. According to Lydia Polgreen, HuffPost’s new editor-in-chief, ...

Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest has defended its use of cash incentives to maximise the use of user-generated content (UGC) within its papers. The publisher is rewarding titles with cash prizes based on factors including the ...

Journalists, editors and executives at major newspaper publishers like Trinity Mirror will be painfully aware of the fact that nobody is indispensable. This, at times, cruel truth was highlighted recently when the Trinity culled a ...

A new London-based online news service, headed up by former Times Columnist, Tim Montgomerie, will not chase breaking news because it believes “the latest things are rarely the most important”. Unherd.com, will instead allow it’s ...

The Financial Times has reported that digital revenues have overtaken print for the first time. The famous pink, financial newspaper, now privately owned by the Japanese firm Nikkei, also announced digital subscriptions have now topped 650,000, with ...

Using research about audience behaviour and social psychology, Claire Wardle pioneers new ways in which newsrooms can tackle issues associated with fake news and manipulated content. Currently leading strategy and research at First Draft, a non-profit ...

The Daily and Sunday Telegraph are to cut a number of production jobs at its London base and outsource sub-editing duties to Press Association staff at their HQ in Howden, Yorkshire. Press reports suggest upwards of ...

The Daily Mail’s ‘legs-it’ front page has amassed over 300 complaints ‘’and counting’’, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has confirmed. The focus on Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon’s legs during a meeting to discuss ...

George Osborne is a busy man. He’s a MP, works as an advisor to a US investment firm, chairs the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, is a Kissinger Fellow, a popular after-dinner speaker and, somewhat controversially, the ...

According to a new survey by Public relations agency, Holyrood PR, an overwhelming number of influential journalists say that PR photography is crucial to achieving media coverage.  Questioning more than 120 frontline journalists, from newspaper editors to freelance ...

The Evening Standard has announced the appointment of George Osborne as editor. He’ll take up the role in May, succeeding current editor Sarah Sands who will replace Jamie Angus as editor of BBC Radio 4’s ...