Went straight to the comments on this one

Would not be the worst thing if Google stopped sending traffic to these sort of pages. This match is not on TV.

🤔 Standard headline had me reaching for my Plato, and I think he would disagree!

Amazing IPSO adjudication upheld against Mail Online after it defended an article on the basis that it was based on a report in the Daily Telegraph and was too late at night to check. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

Looking at the top ten biggest UK website publishers, just one is UK-owned. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

"They came in asking for avocados and someone the other day wanted to know if we'd got guacamole. "I didn't know what to say. The answer was no. And I'm not going to start getting that stuff in either." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Peter Trace died in 1992

Is it possible he was joking?

The new Samsung News app for Android is full of crappy chumbox-style links to MFA sites. Very limited range of publishers on there too. Not good.

I think I have got to the bottom of the curious case of the faked Telegraph article about the rich banker who could not afford school fees, which was first flagged by @ianfraser.bsky.social pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

When big news brands cut lots of award-winning reporters there is opportunity in the target. Attention editorial hiring managers, some great talent here in my list of those leaving Business Insider pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Mail on Sunday deputy political editor Anna Mikhailova has been appointed political editor of Times Radio. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

The rise and rise of Goalhanger - how YouTube has led to "explosive" revenue and audience growth for UK's largest independent podcast production company pressgazette.co.uk/podcasts/pod...

Looks like Liverpool crash driver has been identified but not named yet by press, presumably out of respect for his privacy which is surely mad www.thetimes.com/article/333a...

Unaudited figures seen by Press Gazette show reader revenue is booming at The Guardian in the way of Trump's re-election helping the title cut its annual losses to around £25m pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...

Celebrity net worth articles are the last refuge of the SEO scoundrel!

Press Gazette will be publishing a tribute to former journalist of the year Andrew Norfolk tomorrow please email us if you would like to contribute: [email protected]

I have ditched Google Discover for Samsung News as my phone news aggregator. It's OK bit a bit broad (not enough sources). Any recommendations for good phone news aggregation apps?

According to Google AI overviews, Google and Meta's combined earnings from advertising alone in the UK were £26bn in 2024. This is based on my Press Gazette report. No one has yet challenged this figure or come up with a better one. That is 60% of all UK adspend. pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...

Clickbait headline does not deliver and story includes cringe description of prize money as "sizeable". Just give us the figure and let reader draw their own conclusions on how big it is!

How do you prove someone does not exist? You can't. But if you are asking yourself that question you should probably not be quoting them in an article for a major newsbrand. Was great working with Rob Waugh on this investigation into PR industry's fake experts. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

I've shown my hand a bit here revealing my interactions with attractive (quite possibly robot) investment advisers on Whatsapp pressgazette.co.uk/social_media...

I'm investigating the world of Facebook-promoted financial scams and have joined a 'Richard Quest' share dealing group. So far they just offer tips during 100-day free trial. Tips have actually been quite good 😂. Does anyone what the scam is they are ramping up to?

Beware superlatives subs! Amazed if this is first hybrid school. I know of state provision which mixes class and home learning. www.thetimes.com/article/8b7c...

Turkey independent news websites face closure risk after Google changes led to traffic drop search.app/tT5qr

Very good read this. So many assumptions about WFH in journalism and this puts meat on the bones. Hybrid emerges as the best option.

“I find it absolutely staggering that anyone serious about this industry would want to work from home even a day a week." pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...

Amazing Sunday Times long read looking at activities of its own foreign desk in the 1970s, when half the staff appear to have been spies (split between MI6 and KGB) and star reporter David Holden was murdered, probably by Egyptian security service www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...

Peter Hitchens in today's Mail 🤨

Prince Harry was desperate to fight The Sun in court but forced into a settlement by lawyers, says Graham Johnson. I spoke with the former News of the World reporter who cost Rupert Murdoch £500m pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/th...

If you are getting your news from AI it is probably wrong. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ai...

With doorsteps in tragic circumstances timing is everything, and sadly on this occasion The Sun got the timing badly wrong pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

This piece is a bit of a minefield of Contempt of Court, privacy and defamation issues. But at its heart is an important question of when and why police should target journalists with criminal sanction over social media posts pressgazette.co.uk/news/greg-ha...

An AI-written article about journalists resigning in protest over AI editing. Scary times! tomorrowspublisher.today/ethics/entir...

Google's £55m payout to Canadian news industry suggests search giant should be writing a check for at least £100m to publishers in the UK. Sadly this won't be happening any time soon, according to David Buttle pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...

Press Gazette has published a new list of the top 50 news and media companies in the UK ranked by revenue. It is a must-read snapshot of UK news and information industry. Well done @bronmaher.bsky.social for putting in the hard yards on Companies House for this one pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...

A useful round-up of AI tools here which anyone involved in publishing should find handy: whatsnewinpublishing.substack.com/p/2025-full-... (from Whats New In Publishing which is back in Substack form)

BBC News has run 169 pieces on Musk in the last year. Compare to, say, Xi Jinping, whom it has covered 59 times in the same period*. 🤔 BBC News chases traffic numbers. Musk delivers clicks. One example: this keyword-stuffed SEO piece, endlessly republished. *quick counts of tagged pieces

New Tortoise accounts show how publisher has shifted towards higher margin corporate B2B style round-table events and wracked up losses of more than £20m pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...

This weather forecast from Birmingham Live maybe right for North Pole but not the UK as confused readers will find out if they click

Birmingham Live weather coverage is absolute nonsense every day and always seems to involve a snow bomb!

Don't worry, they haven't. (I've clicked so you don't have to)

Observer deal has been signed - deal values combined Tortoise/Observer at £55m, which is a lot for two loss-making titles pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

I've clicked on this so you don't have to. A weather story which never explains the headline and drifts into weird word soup half way through

I'm no scientist but these affiliate posts appear to rewrite the laws of physics. A small heater that heats small room cheaper than heating entire house would be more accurate headline

Bonkers story reads like it was written by AI and nowhere explains figure in the headline

Carolne Wheeler of The Sunday Times spent 23 years fighting for the victims of the infected blood scandal and played a key role in securing justice for them. Last night she was named Journalist of the Year. Watch her brilliantly moving acceptance speech pressgazette.co.uk/news/british...

The Scott Trust has said it will listen to new bids for The Observer, but potential bidders say it won't talk to them, so they can't make a bid. Press Gazette reveals new leaked email exchange which sheds light on this Catch 22 situation pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

Misleadingly headlined content stolen from another website. Martin Lewis did not say anything. Not really a warning. Publish and be damned, but not in the way Hugh Cudlipp meant it.

Leading former Guardian and Observer writers including @bynickdavies.bsky.social @lucysiegle.bsky.social @suzannemoore.bsky.social have written a new open letter expressing horror at actions of the Scott Trust re Observer sale. Press Gazette exclusive: pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...