Media reports suggest that anti-EU groups used highly sophisticated and largely unregulated “dark” political advertising to target specific groups of people in the run up to the Brexit vote. It is understood that pro Leave groups ...

OK, print media isn’t quite dead – but it no longer lives on its own. It happily co-habits with numerous other strands of digital and social media. When you invite print media to cover your ...

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 ...

Facebook’s algorithms are used to target “insecure” children as young as 14 and may be used to sell highly targeted advertising according to a recent report in The Australian. According to the report, journalists have ...

The Guardian has abandoned its trails with Facebook’s Instant Articles service after the newspaper’s chief executive, David Pemsel, suggested that the financial returns were “woeful”. The Guardian has also pulled out of trials with Apple News ...

The Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) is the least responsive government department when it comes to responding to Freedom of Information requests according to a new report by the Institute for Government (a leading ...

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 ...

A former Trinity Mirror editor has criticised large newspaper publishers for seeking to maximise revenues whilst making minimum efforts in terms of editorial quality and customer service. Steve Scoles, who edited the weekly Northamptonshire Herald ...

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 ...

Online memes are those funny images circulated on social media often with a humorous comment that changes the context of the image and pokes fun at a particular event, individual or ideal. But could online ...

It all seemed to be going so well for Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (aka Pewdiepie), with more than 15 billion video views, 54 million+ subscribers and deals with the Disney organisation, the 27-year-old from Sweden ...

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 ...

Matt Cooke is the Google News Lab lead for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics. Before joining Google, Matt worked at the BBC for seven years as a broadcast journalist. Matt, who is also a ...

Twitter is set to drop its default egg avatar in an attempt to encourage users to upload their own images and help fight the association the social network has with online abuse and trolling. The ...

George Osborne’s appointment as editor of the Evening Standard showed just how easy it is for the worlds of politics and the media to collide. That’s why we’ve integrated our media and political contacts on one ...

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 ...

In the old days, all you needed to work in the PR industry was a laptop and a mobile. Two pieces of technology that feel surgically glued to you as a 24/7 news cycle means ...

If you want to ensure your organisation influences the political agenda, a public affairs strategy will be crucial to your wider stakeholder engagement. And if you’re struggling to identify who to engage with and how, ...

The Metropolitan Police’s communications chief, Martin Fewell, has spoken out about an image on the front page of The Times newspaper showing PC Keith Palmer as he lay dying following the recent Westminster terror attacks. Fewell, ...