Bauer Media Group has bought French TV magazine Télé 7 Jours to strengthen its position in France. Publishing boss Ingo Klinge said it "illustrates our long-term commitment, as well as the priority we place on print media" www.bauermedia.com/news/press-r...

Cash for witnesses: Prince Harry legal team’s questionable tactics revealed ahead of mega Mail privacy trial this month pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/ca...

Journalists are being asked for their best "funny anecdote or media memory" for an anthology called What A Story!. Half the profits will go towards the Journalists' Charity journalistscharity.org.uk/what-a-story/

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has closed its print newspaper and gone digital only. It sold its last issue for $8, up from the usual $2 www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

Alex Mahon and Charlotte Moore among media figures honoured by the King BBC camerapeople, Bauer news editor and newspaper volunteers also recognised pressgazette.co.uk/news/king-ne...

Twice national newspaper editor and "titan" of industry Bill Hagerty has died aged 86 pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/obi...

Tristan Kirk, who won the Paul Foot Award in 2024, has joined PA Media in the newly-created role of courts editor after nine years at the Standard as courts correspondent. He will continue to cover major cases himself and support PA reporters across the UK.

City AM's first UK editor Jon Robinson is leaving the business-focused newspaper after two years www.linkedin.com/posts/jon-ro...

Revenue generated by subscribers fully funded journalism at the Irish Times for the first time last year www.linkedin.com/pulse/2025-w...

Former Fox News presenter Megyn Kelly dismisses CBS News’ push to revive its evening newscast, calling legacy media “dead”. On X: “Nothing will happen at CBS… evening news has been irrelevant for a long time. It’s not reversible” nypost.com/2026/01/02/m...

The BBC has paid £28,000 in compensation to an Israeli family after a film crew entered their destroyed home without permission following the October 7 attack www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

From July: 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 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

From this summer: Google told to ‘stop the BS’ as it claims AI has not harmed website clickthroughs pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

AI referral traffic ‘not making up for search losses’: How publishers can respond pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Reddit’s tips for publishers: ‘Contribute without disrupting the vibe’ Editors should treat Reddit like they are “showing up at a cocktail party” pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/re...

How Youtube revenue is fuelling Talksport’s transformation into video brand pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b...

Publishers with AI licensing deals have seven times the clickthrough rate But only a select group of publishers have deals with the LLMs pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...

Google has promised it is working on a “fix” for spam sites in its Discover app after more fake news stories topped the rankings in the UK pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...

GRV Media, a UK-based sports website publisher, has cut 60 staff since September as a result of falling Google referral traffic pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-base...

Regulators and the media industry should demand better: Google’s AI deals repeat Showcase playbook pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...

NUJ members at STV will strike on 7 January over compulsory redundancies and plans to axe the north edition of the News at 6 programme. The strike will coincide with the launch date of new commercial radio station STV Radio www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Google has reintroduced the ability for publishers to set different ad pricing on its products for the first time in more than six years pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...

Getty has been given permission to appeal parts of the Stability AI ruling, looking at the meaning of the term "infringing copy" pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/ai...

16 senior news leaders reflect on 2025 and what’s ahead in 2026 – via emojis Including... 🤯 💡 🌊 🔭 🤝 😍 🚀 🚅 Featuring CEOs of The Independent, Forbes, Politico and Bloomberg Media, chief revenue officers of Newsweek, Mail Metro Media, Associated Press, and more pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/s...

Facebook tests charging creators and businesses to post more than two links per month But news publishers reportedly excluded from the test on their own pages pressgazette.co.uk/news/faceboo...

Kopinor (manages copyright for press and publishing content in Norway) has signed an agreement for Norwegian newspaper content to be used to train AI models. The agreement is funded by the Norwegian state, paying NOK 45m (£3.3m) a year www.linkedin.com/posts/ifrro_...

CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss defended her decision to pull a controversial “60 Minutes” segment on an El Salvador prison, telling staff Monday the piece needed more reporting, and pushing back on accusations that the move was politically motivated nypost.com/2025/12/22/m...

NUJ calls Iconic Media chief executive Malcolm Denmark "Scrooge" over lack of pay rises for journalists since he took over National World this year www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

News leaders from some of the biggest media companies in the UK and US have reflected on 2025 and revealed how they are feeling ahead of 2026 with emojis pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/s...

The Sunday People saw its average weekly print circulation decline by 26.4% year on year to 36,594 in November - the first time in 2025 the paper has decreased by more than a quarter pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Manchester Evening News editor ‘fed up of playing algorithmic games’ Sarah Lester speaks about new premium paywall on MEN website as well as Google frustrations, fake experts, and being an editor in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders...

CBS News abruptly pulled a 60 Minutes segment on Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to an El Salvador prison. The network announced the change three hours before air and followed demands for changes from new CBS News editor Bari Weiss www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

US chat show host Jimmy Kimmel is to share a personal message with the nation in The Alternative Christmas message airing on Channel 4 on Christmas Day - he is expected to discuss fascism and free speech www.channel4.com/press/news/u...

Google is suing SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, accusing it of violating copyright by accessing Google search results “at an astonishing scale” then selling that data to customers www.theverge.com/news/848365/...

From video and newsletters to AI licensing and editorial campaigns, Press Gazette has rounded up the projects publishers are most proud of in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/t...

Khaleej Times CEO Charles Yardley, formerly in the same role at the Evening Standard, says the UAE title saw digital revenue up 18% year on year in 2025, events up 55% (and now the primary target for growth in 2026), and even print ad growth. www.thedrum.com/news/dubai-s...

The Fence has launched a fundraiser to boost investigative content and expand its team pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-fen...

Press freedom groups warn that UK plans to break end-to-end encryption, affecting tools like Signal and Whatsapp, would pose "extreme danger" to "investigative journalism and even to the lives of journalists" www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

The High Court trial being brought by the Duke of Sussex and six other household names against the Daily Mail’s publisher is due to start on 14 January and last for nine weeks. Documents have been ordered to be disclosed by 2 January uk.news.yahoo.com/trial-duke-s...

Lobby journalists 'furious' as No 10 scraps afternoon briefing pressgazette.co.uk/news/lobby-j...

The Scotsman says it is expanding its commercial team with plans for a "bumper 2026", describing it as a "real vote of confidence in the future" www.scotsman.com/business/the...

There are two news shows in Ofcom's list of most complained about programmes in 2025: GB News Headliners, over comments about the LGBTQ+ community (1,391 complaints), and Sky News Today with Samantha Washington about a Gaza aid boat www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

Meta has begun a test restricting the number of links that creators and businesses can post per month on Facebook pressgazette.co.uk/news/faceboo...

‘Now I know I have made a change’: Press Gazette's interview with Marie Colvin Award winner Malak A Tantesh pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...

Worldcrunch, which provided English translations of global journalism, is closing. Co-founder Jeff Israely said it is "no longer economically viable to deliver the quality and frequency of work that readers have come to expect from our newsroom" worldcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/worldcru...

Former Bloomberg Media CEO M Scott Havens is joining Dow Jones as chief growth officer. He was most recently president of business operations at the New York Mets talkingbiznews.com/media-news/d...

Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War for Associated Press, has died aged 91 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Sarah Palin has failed in a bid for a new libel trial against The New York Times after she lost her case for the second time last year www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

NUJ Wales condemns attacks on Welsh media by Reform UK, citing comments made by Nigel Farage about BBC Wales director Rhuanedd Richards and legal threats against the NationCymru news website www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

The Foreign Office has been issued with an enforcement notice by the Information Commissioner's Office for "unacceptable" delays in responding to Freedom of Information requests "for a number of years" ico.org.uk/action-weve-...