Meta says businesses will be able to report scam ads ‘at scale’ after spate of impersonations
FT's Martin Wolf and Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis among those whose reputations have been used by scams.
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Stephen Bacon: ‘Hugely gifted and much liked’ longtime Express and Star media lawyer
Memorial service to be held at St Bride's Church in Fleet Street.
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Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in deliberate Israeli Gaza attack
"Targeting media workers is a war crime - and we cannot let it be normalised."
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Future expands paid online content offering with Tom’s Hardware launch
Tech news and reviews site becomes one of only handful in Future portfolio with digital subscriptions product.
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Leon Hickman: ‘Peerless’ journalist who headed up sport at Birmingham Post for decades
Leon Hickman has died aged 84 and worked at Birmingham Mail for 29 years.
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Bloomberg Media reports growing subs, advertising and events revenue
Business publisher says it has added nearly 100,000 paying subscribers in a year.
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2025 journalism job cuts tracked: August starts with layoffs at Vox Media and Wyoming local newspapers
This page will stay up-to-date with redundancies and layoffs hitting UK and US journalists in 2025.
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Nearly 1,000 journalists sign new petition urging end to Gaza ‘information blackout’
Move comes as press freedom groups say Gaza journalists starving to death.
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Telegraph showed ‘lack of care’ with headline: ‘Quarter of UK sex crimes carried out by foreigners’
Data was available and set out in article but headline was misleading, IPSO finds.
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Google told to ‘stop the BS’ as it claims AI has not harmed website clickthroughs
Google's Liz Reid claims total click volume from search is "relatively stable" year on year.
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US news giants grow revenue despite AI-driven turmoil
Thomson Reuters, News Corp, People Inc and NYT have strong quarters.
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Why publishers should worry about growing reliance on Google Discover
'Increasingly precarious' to rely on Google Discover traffic and revenue.
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How lifestyle brand Man of Many has changed to counter falling Google traffic
Man of Many is moving away from SEO-focused, evergreen articles.
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SWNS expands into ‘creator economy’ with acquisition and new CEO
Sam Barcroft joins alongside his Creatorville business.
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Former Techcrunch staff join rapidly expanding defence technology title
Resilience Media reporting centres around technology that helps "defend democracy".
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Publishers see apps as solution to vanishing social traffic, says Pugpig
Survey of publishers finds email is now the best way to drive app downloads.
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Andrew Norfolk memorial service to be held
Norfolk died in May months after retiring from The Times.
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Youtuber’s libel claim against Spectator dismissed after reporting was ‘substantially true’
Judge also ruled Mohammed Hegab had lied to the court.
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Dotdash Meredith (now People Inc) says premium ads up as programmatic declines
Digital revenue for People Inc grows 9% to £196m in quarter.
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Dubious UK local news websites, Russian links and cash for coverage
London-based local news websites provide extensive coverage of obscure Russian business figures.
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Swindon Town website eyes national expansion with 500 paying subscribers
Three more sites have launched using platform pioneered by The Moonraker.
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Reddit claims top spot as most cited domain in AI-generated answers
The online forum is aiming to be a go-to search engine for questions and answers
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GB News marks milestone on mission to be biggest TV news channel in UK by 2028
Average daily viewership for GB News was 81,000, with BBC News Channel on 79,000.
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News diary 4-10 August: Final Masterchef with Gregg Wallace airs, US foreign import tariffs and Trump’s Russia-Ukraine deadline
A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News.
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Top 50 news websites in the US in June: Times of Israel visits double in a month
Press Gazette's monthly ranking of the top 50 news websites in the US, using Similarweb data.
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Ipswich local news site launches seed funding round after first year
Ipswich.co.uk to fundraise to enable new hires and next stage of growth.
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White House embraces rise of ‘newsfluencers’
How social media 'newsfluencers' have made their way into the heart of the US government.
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50 biggest English-language news websites in the world: Al Jazeera leads growth in June
Press Gazette's analysis of the 50 biggest English-language news websites in the world, updated monthly.
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Freelance journalists given rare chance to ‘right wrongs’ of unfair payment practices
Journalists often treated like 'ungrateful beggars' for asking for payment and must make case 'loud and clear'.
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50 biggest UK news websites in June: Express audience up by almost a third in a year
Press Gazette's monthly ranking of the top 50 news websites in the UK.
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Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: Gannett signs up with Perplexity
Ziff Davis sues OpenAI while The Washington Post signs.
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David McCann appointed editor of Times and Sunday Times in Scotland
Magnus Llewellin has left the newsbrand after nine years as editor.
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‘Unbiased’ US news publisher believes app is key in world of AI search summaries
Straight Arrow News says app page views were up 1,170% year on year in June.
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Major UK publishers have seen Google search visibility ‘drop by up to 80%’ since 2019
Likelihood of publisher keywords triggering an AI Overview increased by 3.5 times between March and June.
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How to build a 70-strong newsbrand with 20,000 subscribers in a warzone
Kyiv Independent COO Zakhar Protsiuk explains how title built reader revenue model since November 2021 launch.
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RAJARs Q2 2025: Times Radio reports record year-on-year growth
Times Radio has grown its listenership by a record 29% on a yearly basis.
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AI Overviews cutting publisher clickthrough rates by 50%, new report finds
New research on AI Overviews has been submitted as part of a legal complaint on its impacts.
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Google AI Mode goes live in the UK
New search experience described as "lose-lose" for sources of trusted news.
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Daily Mail sets 1m digital subscriber target amid major rebrand
Aim is to reach one million paying digital subscribers by October 2028.
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Ladbible launches Betches in UK to talk ‘with, not to’ millennial and Gen Z women
Ladbible Group acquired Betches in 2023 to give it a foothold in the US market.
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Cyberattacks target email accounts of senior journalists
Washington Post also suffered recent attack.
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Tech newsbrand Digital Frontier ‘pauses’ publication with 16-strong team made redundant
Digital Frontier aimed to provide "more nuanced and optimistic view" of tech intersection with business and culture.
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Call for commemoration to Welsh journalist Gareth Jones who exposed horrors of Soviet famine
Jones is known for uncovering famine affecting Ukrainians, Russians and Kazakhs in the 1930s.
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Longstanding Church of England newspaper closes after death of owner
Church of England Newspaper is halting print amid challenges in an increasingly digital age.
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TBIJ promotes Franz Wild to CEO and editor-in-chief
Wild has been editor of the Bureau for the past two years.
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News UK COO and ex-Sun editor David Dinsmore to take Govt comms job
Dinsmore appointed "permanent secretary for communications".
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The Times drops free Money Mentor offering in personal finance pivot
The new money section will be launched in autumn.
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‘Anti-clickbait’ Facebook page relaunches after Ladbible complaints led to takedown
Ladbible opposed the "clear infringement of our intellectual property rights".
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Sky News expands data and forensics journalism team
The expansion and visual relaunch is part of the Sky News 2030 future-proofing project.
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News diary 28 July – 3 August: Starmer-Trump meeting, Edinburgh Fringe, Ofcom annual media data
A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News.
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Fortune Europe editorial team made redundant but new roles being created
The redundancies are separate to newly-announced plans to cut 10% of the Fortune global workforce.
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Reach Scotland editor-in-chief David Dick to lead publisher’s national titles in print
Dick named head of print (nationals) after leading Scottish newsrooms for seven years.
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Courts to notify journalists of reporting restrictions so they can be challenged
The amendment to the Criminal Procedure Rules is expected to improve transparency within the media industry.
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BBC and news agencies sound alarm over ‘threat of starvation’ for journalists in Gaza
Major news outlets have expressed concern about food supplies reaching journalists in Gaza.
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Reach to put ‘serious focus’ on subscriptions but expects to keep most news free
Publisher will remain "primarily ad-funded for the foreseeable".
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How Which? is building a long-term subscriber base less reliant on quick washing machine decisions
Which? finding ways to deliver "real value" to consumers beyond sporadic purchasing advice.
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There’s only one way the news industry will win in the AI era: together
Taking control of the relationship between publishers and machines means learning lessons from the recent past.
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Third-party scrapers are stealing publisher content to order for AI companies
Unscrupulous companies are ignoring Robots.txt warnings and bypassing paywalls.
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Foreign state-owned investors cleared to hold 15% stake in UK newspapers
Lords vote clears way for Telegraph ownership limbo to end with UAE stake.
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Google AI summaries start to roll out in Discover in US
Google officially launches AI summaries in Discover in the US.
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Inside The Observer’s Salt Path investigation: Legal hurdles, ‘AI’ book and putting new version of paper on the map
The Observer's exposé of the "real" Salt Path has boosted its online traffic and print sales.
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Newspaper ABCs: Daily Star and Sunday People move down circulation table
Press Gazette's monthly analysis of ABC national newspaper circulation figures.
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Public service broadcasters need ‘stable’ funding for news and prominence on Youtube, Ofcom finds
'Next logical step' after Media Act gave prominence to public service broadcasters on smart TVs.
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The Atlantic and The Economist among initial partners for Google ‘featured notebooks’
NotebookLM is Google's AI-powered documents research and note-taking tool.
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Wales newsletter author Will Hayward launches fund to support new investigative journalists
Hayward has £10,000 to spend on pitches from young journalists.
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PR agency sells AI tool which sends out automated expert comment to journalists
Journalists may as well cut out the middle man and just ask ChatGPT themselves, says PR expert.
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Clickbait has become ‘self-perpetuating cycle’ drowning out genuine news
Journalist Mandy Gardner assesses incentives for clickbait and its distortion of the media landscape.
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News diary 21-27 July: Trump visits Scotland, Women’s Euros final, Oasis at Wembley
A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News.
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Radio station Fix builds profitable community for UK builders
Independent station has grown turnover to £8m targeting UK tradespeople.
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Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users
'Dark traffic' up by 49% in three years, according to new study.
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Reach in the US: 70-strong team is turning a profit with more growth planned
US-based versions of Mirror, Express and Irish Star "washing their own face" within Reach.
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The Times: From loss-making broadsheet to profit on a tiny screen
Times Media head of digital Edward Roussel says AI can't replace journalists.
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Afghan data breach super injunction ‘deeply disturbing’ for press freedom, says Lewis Goodall
Unprecedented wide-ranging super injunction gagged UK press for two years.
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How social and video drive revenue for UK podcast network Crowd
Producer of For the Love of Rugby and For the Love of Cricket is doubling revenue every year.
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Local news to be integrated into neighbourhood app Nextdoor
Nextdoor will display content from local news publishers in an app redesign.
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‘Streak mechanism’ found to be key with Gen Z on gamified news app
Newsreel provides similar experience to language app Duolingo.
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Nick Robinson and Fiona Bruce are top-paid BBC journalists after Huw Edwards exit
On-air pay figures for year to 31 March 2025 include 50 journalists earning above £178,000.
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‘I get death threats all the time’, CNN’s Clarissa Ward tells conference
London conference brings discussion of newsroom mental health to the fore.
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BBC wrong to use child narrator for Gaza documentary, review finds
Boy's father worked in Gazan civil government but did not influence film, BBC finds.
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World’s biggest news websites: Japan and Brazil sites top ranking
Press Gazette has ranked the top 50 news websites globally based on Similarweb data.
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Gay Times raises £150k from supporters after advertiser diversity backlash
CEO Tag Warner explains how 40-year-old brand is future-proofing after taking major hit to advertising.
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Prince Harry lawyers told to disclose details of payments to witnesses in Mail trial
Judge condemns 'inconsistent and incoherent' approach of Prince Harry lawyers.
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News diary 14-20 July: MP in court on sexual assault charges, BBC Proms, Sycamore Gap sentencing
A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News.
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Journalist says 4,000 fake AI news websites created to game Google algorithms
AI-generated websites make money by 'backlinking' or gaming Discover for ad revenue.
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Mail defended inaccurate immigrants story by saying Telegraph was source
Mail argued it did not need to check story taken from Telegraph front page.
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Reach to ‘streamline’ sports teams into one hub with ‘around 50’ redundancies
Reach to continue having dedicated writers for biggest football clubs and certain sports.
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Future of Media Awards shortlist highlights best of digital journalism in 2025
Best podcasts, websites, newsletters and live journalism among awards categories.
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Podcasts, paywalls and Apple News fuel growing profitability at Immediate Media
CEO Sean Cornwell says staff AI adoption is now key target for magazine giant.
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Prorata: The generative AI player planning to share revenue with publishers
Prorata has new slogan: "They scrape and steal. We credit and compensate."
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Substacker Judd Legum on doing journalism that ‘went out of fashion’
Popular Information has four staff and turns over around $1m per year.
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From ‘hedged gardens’ to new metrics: How publishers can grow ad revenue
Publishers including Bloomberg, News Corp and Mail on future of advertising.
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Why news is one of the safest places for advertising to go
CNN's Tini Sevak says brand safety fears around news advertising based on a 'myth'.
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Business Post: From ‘shocking’ engagement to 12,000 subscribers
The Irish newsbrand's online page views have grown five-fold since 2018.
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Google Offerwall explained: Easy way for publishers to test pay-as-you-go and ad-gated access
New publisher technology from Google comes amid concern over AI Overviews rollout.
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Elite Traveler names Paul Croughton as editor-in-chief
Croughton to lead planned editorial and commercial expansion at luxury brand.
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National World appoints Martin Little as chief publishing officer
Little is the first big appointment at National World since its May takeover.
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How Google AI Overviews is fuelling zero-click searches for top publishers
Likes of Mail Online and People see high proportion of AI Overviews for their key search terms.
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Radio News Hub: From Huddersfield basement to global success in ten years
The growing radio news agency supplies bulletins to 400 stations.
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News diary 7-13 July: 7/7 bombings 20th anniversary, Netanyahu at White House, Macron state visit to UK
A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News.
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Google accused of causing "serious irreparable harm" to the UK news industry.
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