PA ‘transforming newsroom’ to offer web-ready multimedia and social-led content to customers
The Press Association (PA) is undergoing the biggest transformation in its 150-year history as it moves to a digital-first newsroom,…
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COMMENT: What I think about newspapers who go out of their way to avoid paying for agency stories
There’s a story, possibly apocryphal, about Jimmy Greaves who was getting increasingly frustrated with poor refereeing decisions and asked the…
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News agency SWNS launches new syndication platform it claims will ‘transform’ speed of content sharing
Independent news agency SWNS has launched a new content syndication platform with funding from Google which it says will finally…
By PR emails should get to the point, not act like an American waiter asking how everyone is doing
This week, some NAPA agencies got a press release from one of those PR companies they’ve never actually spoken to.…
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Unlike newspapers, the fees PR agencies pay have gone up with inflation – no wonder graduate trainees are jumping ship
Graduate trainee journalists are apparently increasingly jumping ship to the world of PR after discovering their original chosen profession is…
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PA editor Pete Clifton on Google-funded automated news project: ‘It’s not about replacing reporters with robots’
Press Association editor-in-chief Peter Clifton has said he is “certainly not replacing reporters with robots” in response to concerns raised…
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News agency trade association boss calls for boycott of Independent over ‘no copyright in news’ stance on court story
The chairman of the National Association of Press Agencies has said that freelance journalists should boycott the independent after a…
By Government and news organisations need to work to together to solve problem of dwindling local coverage
Kensington and Chelsea Council wanted to have a council meeting without journalists. When the journalists turned up, they had a…
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