When struggling publishing bosses fighting falling circulations tell you that young people don’t read newspapers, don’t believe a word of it. First News, the title aimed exclusively at children is bucking industry trends and has ...

The future of carefully crafted feature articles in the regional press could be in doubt according to a recent opinion piece by Ian Burrell in The Drum. The article focuses on the closure of the ...

For anyone who spends a considerable amount of time on social media, it would be almost impossible not to see someone using SnapChat’s face-changing filters which allows people to decorate their faces with cartoonish dog ...

Journalists have more faith in traditional media coverage to influence engagement than social media – but only just – according to a recent survey conducted by Ogilvy PR. The survey, which was completed by 200 journalists ...

Tomorrow’s key influencer may not be the same as today’s. A blogger with influence within one sector may not resonate with another, while newcomers join the online community every day. Bloggers and vloggers have become ...

Facebook Live is taking another step closer to becoming a legitimate, commercial broadcast channel with the news that they are experimenting with mid-roll video ads inside live video broadcasts. Revenue from the 15 second ads, which ...

A newspaper’s credibility is built on its editorial integratory. Every editor worth their salt should (and most do to a certain degree) insist on a clear division between editorial content and paid advertising. However, in ...

You’ve got your corporate online media centre up and running, but traffic still isn’t coming to your site. We’ve put together a checklist of essential items to help optimise your online media centre. 1. Easily accessible ...

The ongoing decline in the consumption of printed newspapers and rise in mobile news consumption has seen the traditional press release continue to take a back-seat as journalists turn to more engaging visual content when ...

Jeff Henry, CEO of newspaper publishing group Archant, suggests the company’s size is partly responsible for the success of their recently launched The New European title. In an interview with The Drum Henry said: “If you ...

The Guardian is to cut back on its weekly print media coverage as part of ongoing cost savings operations. The cuts will see Monday’s dedicated media section reduced down from two pages to one. A ...

24, the recently launched “national” title for the north is to close after just one month according to reports in The Press Gazette.   The title, publish by CN Group and operated by a skeleton ...

With less than two weeks to go before the start of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, sports fans around the world are getting ready to cheer on their nations’ athletes. While the games will be ...

Exaro, the investigative journalism site, has closed down just one week after a new management team was installed and insisting that it was very much open for business. The Covent Garden based online publication was ...

Press regulator IPSO is reviewing its rules regarding its global remit following recent claims that a Mail Online story about Hollywood actor, Tom Cruise, was inaccurate. Editors at the Mail Online refused defend the story, stating ...

The news that Fleet Street will be saying goodbye to its last connection with journalism will no doubt moisten the eye of even the most cynical hack who once called the famous London street his ...

Television news broadcasters have embraced recent changes to Facebook’s newsfeed algorithms and are investing additional resources into new services like Facebook Live. Facebook announced earlier in the year, that changes to their algorithms would prioritise the ...

It’s been one hundred and twenty-seven years since the first edition of National Geographic was published. Over the years the iconic magazine has championed issues such as chemical pollution, deforestation, global warming, endangered species as ...

Time Inc has announced it is to cease publication of two monthly cycling magazines and pour additional resources into its flagship cycling publication Cycling Weekly. Cycling Active and Cycling Sport are to be closed, with ...

According to the Telegraph between 10.00 and 1.00 this Wednesday a total of 1,278,744 tweets mentioned the terms Chilcot, Blair or Iraq War – with a total of more than 26m words as illustrated in the ...