A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. Eddie wins the internet A 15-year-old schoolboy on work experience was given the opportunity to monitor Southern ...

The Independent recently made the headlines themselves for all the wrong reasons after a freelance journalist accused them of lifting his story from an online news source and refusing to pay for it. According to ...

The BBC is set to cut a number of perks it currently offers its journalists in a bid to save the corporation £80 million. These perks include overtime, an ‘unpredictable hours’ allowance and free taxi ...

The Press Association (PA) has been awarded a €706,000 Google grant to create an automated news service for local press. Working in collaboration with start-up Urbs Media, PA hopes to create 30,000 data-driven stories each ...

Fifteen hyperlocal newspapers have been given the green light to bid for BBC cash to employ a ‘local democracy’ reporter. The scheme, which will give local newspapers the opportunity to tap into an £8 million ...

A six-year-long campaign led by the Glasgow Evening Times has resulted in the Scottish government making sweeping changes to organ donation systems in the country. The campaign, which was launched in 2011, lobbied the Scottish ...

News UK, publishers of The Sun and The Times, have given their staff £10 vouchers to spend at Borough Market in solidarity with traders who were forced to close their businesses for 11 days following ...

The opening of the inquest into the death of three terrorists shot dead following the London Bridge attack went unreported after Southwark Coroners’ Court failed to alert the press until after the inquest had begun. ...

Theresa May’s deal with the DUP – which pledges an extra £1 billion of funding to Northern Ireland – has dominated headlines today. As May recovers from an election with has left many in her party against ...

Freelance journalists have always faced a number of challenges when it comes to being paid a fair amount for their work. In an age where news aggregation (essentially the re-writing and re-publishing of work) becomes ...

The Welsh Assembly is so concerned about the lack of press coverage it receives it has decided to recruit its own team of journalists to cover news relating to the devolved Welsh Government. According to ...

In recent years industry pros have declared that press releases are dead. Once, one of the most effective modes of PR communication, press releases have been criticised as being used to spam journalists with irrelevant ...

If you’ve ever been outraged by the Mail Online’s sidebar of shame or the questionable comments made by some of its equally questionable columnists and poured scorn on Paul Dacre and The Daily Mail, you ...

After what seems like years of speculation, The Guardian finally looks set to abandon its unique Berliner format and adopt a more standard tabloid size. Both The Telegraph and the FT have reported that The Guardian’s ...

A number of journalists across Trinity Mirror’s regional newspaper operation have expressed disgust at being forced into writing speculative articles regarding the possibility of a drive-thru Greggs bakery opening in their regions. This is despite ...

Publishers and editors of British tabloid newspapers are surely questioning their influence over the public after a sustained attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour in support of a “strong and stable” Theresa May-led government failed. A ...

While there has been a lot of talk of the diminishing power of the mainstream right-wing media to swing public opinion following the recent general election, one former Conservative MP has pointed the finger of ...

Vodafone is working on a strategy to ensure its advertising does not appear alongside fake news and hate speech. The mobile telecoms giant, which reportedly spends £400 million of its annual £750 million advertising budget ...

As a rule, young people do not read newspapers. OK, this might sound like a sweeping statement but the figures don’t lie. Here are some numbers that will make editors who are desperate to breathe ...

The Sun has been quick to defend itself against claims that it sought to politically exploit the Manchester Arena terror attack with a front page article focusing on Jeremy Corbyn’s alleged links to the IRA. ...