Competition lawyers Professor Damien Geradin and Dr Liza Lovdahl-Gormsen answered questions this week on the Digital Markets Unit from the Lords Select Committee on Communications and Digital. Prof Geradin, professor of competition law and economics, Tilburg University, stressed the vital...

Local and regional editors across the UK are invited to partner with local libraries as they gear up to launch exhibitions exploring the role news plays in society. On 24 February, more than 30 public libraries across the UK will...

The courts service has announced the creation of a new online resource to improve access to court and tribunal hearing lists, stating the critical importance of local and national journalists to upholding the principle of open justice. Announcing the new...

The News Media Association has welcomed reports that work on legislation to put the Digital Markets Unit on a statutory footing, giving the new regulator the powers it needs to level the playing field between platforms and publishers, is...

Advertising carried by publishers such as the ‘All Together’ campaign has been a crucial part of the fightback against the pandemic and will be remembered as a “potent symbol of advertising's power," the Culture Secretary said. Speaking at the Advertising...

An influential committee of MPs has voiced “urgent concerns” that protections for freedom of expression in the Online Safety Bill are inadequate and should be strengthened. The News Media Association welcomed the DCMS Select Committee’s recommendation to strengthen protections...

MPs urged Government last week to “end the cancer” of high-end law firms using the legal system to intimidate journalists and preventing them from publishing their investigations.  David Davis argued in the House of Commons that “these people use our...

The News Media Association has said that any further BBC investment in local news provision must be channelled through partnership initiatives such as the Local News Partnership and not through ramping up its own local services after Tim Davie...

The UK should not be tempted to adopt a more permissive regime for text and data mining which could further boost the ability of platforms and aggregators to profit from news publishers’ journalism without their consent, the News Media...