Minutes spent with the Daily Star saw the strongest boost among the UK’s 50 biggest news websites in August, according to the latest data from Ipsos iris pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Launch by ex-Observer staff of The Nerve has "hugely exceeded our expectations" in its first week with a beta website and its first newsletter "We’ve shown what a small, dedicated, collaborative team of women – who’ve worked together for years – can do" pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-lau...

Some 80% of Comet Plus subs revenue will be distributed amongst participating publishers. “Publishers should settle for nothing less,” Perplexity said Perplexity is itself currently being sued, including by News Corp pressgazette.co.uk/news/perplex...

Guardian advertising bosses criticise publisher websites that create an "unusable" experience through ad overloading: "Surely this can’t be having a long-term positive impact on these publications?" pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/th...

Why Goalhanger, the producer of shows like The Rest is Politics and The Rest is History, is now a video company not a podcaster pressgazette.co.uk/podcasts/uks...

ICYMI: Reform UK’s Nottinghamshire council ban on engaging with Nottinghamshire Live has been lifted after more than a month Editor Natalie Fahy said: "This sends a firm message that journalists will not back down if our freedoms are attacked" pressgazette.co.uk/news/victory...

NEW: The Nerve @thenerve.news, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, has attracted more than 900 paying subscribers in its first week pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-lau...

The NUJ is holding a strike vote over cuts at The Mirror where 40 journalists could go. Owner Reach said: "Seismic changes in the industry demand decisive responses." www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Guardian announces seven new hires in audio and video journalism It comes as editor-in-chief Katharine Viner revealed plans for investment in audio and video content as part of her long-term plans for the title's future pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

Reach has created a new role of business director for Scotland, appointing former DC Thomson chief revenue officer Andy Williams. It's the first time Reach has had a "fully joined-up link" between its direct and agency teams in Scotland www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/reach-n...

The Guardian has told marketers to stop buying intrusive online ads. The publisher said it turns down millions in ad revenue which would spoil user experience pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/th...

Paramount is expected to announce a deal as soon as Monday to buy The Free Press, uniting CBS News with the upstart digital publisher, according to three people briefed on the talks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

Reform UK's ban on Nottinghamshire Live has been lifted in full after more than a month after the news title sent a legal letter to the county council www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...

Perplexity has signed up seven US-based and French publishers as revenue-sharing launch partners for its Comet Plus subscription within the AI-powered Comet browser (which it said today will now be free to all users) pressgazette.co.uk/news/perplex...

Minutes spent with the Daily Star saw the strongest boost among the UK’s 50 biggest news websites in August, according to recent Ipsos data pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Ashley Allison, CNN commentator, is to buy The Root from G/O Media. The digital magazine, focused on Black culture and politics, is set to see investment in video content, new partnerships, and in-person experiences edition.cnn.com/2025/10/02/m...

A service to commemorate those journalists, photographers, camera-crew, sound-crew and support staff who have died on the frontline, will be held at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street on Tuesday 11 November 2025 at 6:30pm. Open to all. www.stbrides.com/events/journ...

GB News claims to have beaten the BBC News Channel and Sky News for average views in September for the third month in a row according to BARB data www.gbnews.com/news/gb-news...

CEO of Danish publisher Zetland: ‘It’s bullshit to say young people aren’t willing to pay for news’ Interview with Tav Klitgaard as Swedish news giant takes majority stake in digital subs-based Zetland pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...

The New York Times is suing actor/director Justin Baldoni to recoup its legal fees after a defamation suit he filed against the newspaper was dismissed by a judge www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

Information about Prince William's 21st birthday party could have been 'blagged' for Daily Mail, High Court hears pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/in...

Sky News has said its new breakfast show Mornings with Ridge and Frost will launch on 3 November on Mondays to Thursdays, alongside a new daily podcast, Cheat Sheet with Ridge and Frost. A morning newsletter is also in development news.sky.com/story/sky-ne...

People Inc (formerly Dotdash Meredith) has acquired food publisher and creator network Feedfeed, partly to learn from its model of leveraging top social influencers for other verticals in its portfolio. CEO Neil Vogel said www.axios.com/2025/10/01/p...

Today we have a rare interview with Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, in which she reveals a new transformation plan that's getting underway at the newsbrand and reflects on her ten years in charge of the newsroom so far pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders...

The BBC has apologised after featuring details about the suicide of ex- Liverpool women's manager Matt Beard in its headline and push notification The BBC said it will "ensure that all future coverage of sensitive issues strictly follows best practice..." deadline.com/2025/10/bbc-...

"One subs package to rule them all": How Estonian publisher Delfi Meedia is reaching a fifth of Estonia's population pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/del...

There has been a drop in the number of privately-educated leaders in UK media but the industry remains “highly unrepresentative” of the public overall New Sutton Trust data survey findings on the media here pressgazette.co.uk/news/little-...

MoneyWeek editor Andrew Van Sickle shared editorial highlights during its 25 years in print, and how the magazine is growing subscribers with newsletters pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/m...

The Express had the most breaches of the Editors’ Code upheld by regulator IPSO in 2024, according to its annual report for the year pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/ex...

Online advertising network Ozone is launching in the US, working with its existing partners like the Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Mirror and more, plus new publisher partnerships with Dow Jones, the BBC and the New York Post ozoneproject.com

Hearing in Prince Harry's High Court claim alleging unlawful activities by the publisher of the Daily Mail is being held today on preliminary issues uk.news.yahoo.com/latest-heari...

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...

Nottinghamshire Live has launched a legal challenge against Reform UK's county council ban on its journalists. The publisher said the ban is without legal basis "due to its irrationality" www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...

GB News has issued a clarification and apology to UK-based charity Islamic Relief after an interviewee wrongly said it had funded terrorist groups www.gbnews.com/news/clarifi...

IPSO says it commissioned a poll conducted by Yougov that found 60% of 103 MPs felt local journalism is in "poor health". It also said the polling found 95% supported independent press regulation not connected to government www.ipso.co.uk/news-analysi...

NPR has asked a federal judge to block a $57.9M Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant to a new consortium of public media institutions to operate the satellite for US public radio www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Comcast, the media giant behind NBC News, has named Mike Cavanagh as its co-CEO starting January www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

Press regulator IPSO has appointed a new nine-strong team to carry out Standards Investigations including former PA Media editor Peter Clifton and former police officer Andy Brennan. In the 11 years since launch IPSO has never carried out a standards investigation. www.ipso.co.uk/news-analysi...

Youtube has agreed to pay $24.5m to settle a suit filed by Trump in 2021 that alleged the platform wrongly suspended his channel after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The UK’s top selling regional daily newspaper, the Belfast-based Irish News, has restructured its editorial team with more focus placed on video, newsletters and events pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...

News diary for the week ahead includes Trump hosting Netanyahu at the White House, UK party conferences and Taylor Swift releasing a new album pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-di...

Reform UK has lifted its ban on the three BBC-funded local democracy reporters managed by Nottinghamshire Live but continues to refuse to talk to other journalists at the newsbrand www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

FT says AI-personalised paywall messaging has quadrupled conversion rate pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Ailbhe Rea is rejoining The New Statesman as political editor, as Andrew Marr becomes editor-at-large. Rea was previously political correspondent at The New Statesman before spending the last couple of years at Politico and then Bloomberg News.

Former Daily Mirror editor Alison Phillips has been named chief executive of think tank Labour Together labourlist.org/2025/09/alis...

Email-based publisher The Flyover has raised more than $2m in its ongoing crowdfunding campaign, with the help of 1,350 investors. Launched in July 2025, the fundraiser aims to raise $5m overall

20% of US adults say they now regularly get news on Tiktok, up from 3% in 2020. By age, 43% of 18-29s often get news on Tiktok, 25% of 30-49s, 10% of 50-64s and 3% of 65+. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

IPSO has backed The Times after a confidential MI5 source complained he had been identified by his employer and dismissed because of its reporting. IPSO said there had not been a failure to protect him www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0160...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said Reform UK's ban on councillors talking to Nottinghamshire Live is "cowardly" and "the complete opposite of free speech" www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent" pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...