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THE Impartial Reporter scooped The Regional Media Award at the prestigious Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2020 for its outstanding investigation into historical sexual abuse. Rodney Edwards’ (pictured left) investigation into historical child sexual abuse in Fermanagh, for Newsquest title The Impartial Reporter, collected the organisation’s human rights award for Regional Media. The Impartial Reporter investigation, [...]

David Newell, chief executive of the News Media Association, has announced that he will be retiring from the NMA next summer. He said: “Earlier this year, I announced to the NMA Board that I planned to step down as NMA CEO and retire from the NMA in June 2021. This will enable plans to begin [...]

WENDY THATCHER, product manager ay Harmsworth Quays Printing Thurrock, gives PJ an insight into her work looking after the print quality for dmg media newspaper titles. Read her 10pt Talking Point in this month’s PJ magazine.

THE EDITOR’S CHAIR: The ‘snail’s pace’ of action to restore balance to the digital ecosystem is a massive threat to publishers, warns Gary Cullum WE have been talking for far too long about the need to call the big tech giants to account. The online giants have prospered hugely at the expense of all other [...]

The Independent Press Standards Organisation has announced Charlotte Dewar (pictured) as its new chief executive. Dewar was previously the director of operations at IPSO for five years and has been acting chief executive since Matt Tee’s departure in February. She said: “I’m delighted to be appointed as chief executive. Well-regulated, accountable journalism is more important than [...]

In a DCMS Select Committee evidence session, the chief executive of Ofcom, Dame Melanie Dawes spoke about the importance of quality journalism and its funding in an era marked by disinformation. She said: "Freedom of speech is important, and these boundaries between misinformation and disinformation are not always easy to strike. What our research shows [...]

The future of the historic Stratford Herald has been secured after it was bought out of administration by a new company headed by press owners Edward Iliffe and Peter and Rory Fowler. The 160-year-old title was placed into administration in early May. It has now been purchased by a new joint venture company, Stratford News [...]

The future of the historic Stratford Herald has been secured after it was bought out of administration by a new company headed by press owners Edward Iliffe and Peter and Rory Fowler. The 160-year-old title was placed into administration in early May. It has now been purchased by a new joint venture company, Stratford News [...]

An influential committee has called on the Government to support the local news media sector as the tech platforms leach advertising revenues away from the creators of public interest journalism. In its Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust report, the Democracy and Digital Technology Committee said there was a need for a “fundamental rebalancing [...]

French MPs have voted to grant a tax credit to anyone taking out a new subscription to a current affairs newspaper or magazine after the Government argued that the sector was “suffering enormously” from the coronavirus crisis. Deputies voted to allow a one-off deduction of up to €50 (£45) to households subscribing for the first [...]