New Full Fact CEO: Fact-checkers may need ‘to be a bit more rock and roll’
Chris Morris says it’s best not to “get too po-faced” about inaccuracies but wants to boost Full Fact’s profile.
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25 years on, live blogs top most-read lists for BBC, Guardian and Sky
Not just for breaking news, daily live blogs on the Ukraine war and cost of living are also working.
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Ex-Sun editor David Yelland on PR: Lying is ‘far less common than you’d think’
Yelland and former No 10 comms chief Simon Lewis talk PR and journalism ahead of their podcast launch.
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Former BBC and NYT boss Mark Thompson named CEO and chair of CNN
Thompson said he spent years watching CNN “with a mixture of admiration and envy”.
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BBC’s Newscast becomes seven-day operation with Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell at weekends
For the first time the BBC’s “premier news podcast” will run seven days a week.
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Most popular news apps in the UK: Paywalled Times and Telegraph report highest time spent per user
Press Gazette’s quarterly ranking of the most popular news apps in the UK, using data from Ipsos iris.
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Russia adds BBC, Guardian and Telegraph staff to journalist blacklist
New additions include prominent BBC correspondents Ros Atkins and Marianna Spring.
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Publishers rebut claim anyone profits from BBC-funded Local Democracy Reporters
Reach said it has put infrastructure in place to support the LDR scheme and wants it to succeed.
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