Guardian forecasting £39m deficit as ad revenue falls 16%
Advertising revenue at Guardian News and Media was down £9m (16%) in the nine months to 31 December, the publisher has told staff. The ad downturn accounted for £12m of a £17m revenue shortfall...
View ArticleGuardian US hires Mehdi Hasan as regular columnist after quitting MSNBC
The Guardian US has hired Mehdi Hasan as a regular columnist, a few months after his show was dropped from liberal-leaning news network MSNBC. The US edition of the title announced Hasan’s hiring...
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UK publishers tell Parliament: Stop AI using our content without permission
Executives from leading national news publishers have called on the Government to take immediate action to protect the industry from copyright infringement by AI companies. Two of the four business...
View ArticleGuardian makes apology and payment to Dan Wootton after privacy complaint
The Guardian has apologised and agreed to make a payment to suspended GB News presenter Dan Wootton after reporting that he was under police investigation. It is one of a number of publications and...
View Article‘Internal memos of the upper class’: Gary Younge says journalism is out of touch
Journalist Gary Younge has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for many...
View ArticlePartisan publishers: Why Keir Starmer will have an easier election than Neil...
After the 1992 UK general election, the UK’s top-selling newspaper claimed on its front page: “It was The Sun what won it.” John Major’s Conservative Party achieved an unlikely and narrow 21-seat...
View ArticleGuardian to defend Noel Clarke reporting as true and in public interest
Women who have accused actor Noel Clarke of sexual misconduct could give evidence at a libel trial in an attempt to “vindicate” The Guardian’s journalism, the High Court has heard. The 48-year-old is...
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Who are the UK’s national newspaper editors?
The Daily Mirror was the latest UK national newspaper to get a new editor after Alison Phillips stepped down at the end of January after almost six years. Phillips was succeeded by Caroline Waterston,...
View ArticleThe Guardian names five new correspondents to cover underreported communities
The Guardian has appointed five new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America, Africa and UK with the aim of boosting coverage of underreported communities. The new roles are part of Guardian...
View ArticleEditors unite in bid to stop anti-SLAPP bill being ‘ultimately redundant’
Editors from the likes of the Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Times and The Telegraph have united in an attempt to bolster an anti-SLAPP bill going through Parliament. More than 60 editors, writers,...
View ArticleMore women in top roles as media industry gender pay gap slowly narrows
Three-quarters of the UK’s biggest media organisations increased the percentage of women in their top teams in the past year. Of 34 media organisations big enough to be required to report gender pay...
View ArticlePippa Crerar: Newspaper front pages will still set general election political...
Newspaper front pages will still set the UK agenda in this year’s expected general election despite the waning influence of print, according to Guardian political editor Pippa Crerar. Crerar, who was...
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Guardian makes rejecting tracking cookies easier as it promotes cookie-less...
The Guardian has changed its website messaging around persuading readers to accept tracking cookies in the light of recent ICO guidance. It has also sent an open letter to the advertising industry...
View ArticleGuardian to make ‘small number of voluntary redundancies’ amid ad recession
The Guardian is aiming to make “a small number of voluntary redundancies” among its journalists as it predicts pressures on costs and revenues will continue “into the next financial year, if not...
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NI law that would have outlawed reporting Savile allegations struck down
A Northern Ireland law granting anonymity to people suspected of sexual assault allegations before charge, even for 25 years after they die, has been struck down after a successful challenge by the...
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Guardian CEO Bateson ready to ‘do a deal’ with AI companies ‘on the right terms’
Guardian Media Group chief executive Anna Bateson has said the publisher “would do a deal” with an AI company “but only on the right terms”. Bateson made the comments on Tuesday while appearing...
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Amber de Botton joins The Guardian as communications chief
Rishi Sunak’s former director of communications Amber de Botton is joining Guardian Media Group. De Botton will be chief communications officer for the national newspaper publisher and will sit on its...
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Has Rishi Sunak already lost support of The Sun? Press general election bias...
National press coverage of the British general election has so far been even-handed, according to Press Gazette analysis of front page bias. Press Gazette looked at every national newspaper front page...
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‘So many damn follow-up emails’: Jay Rayner tells PRs to stop ‘driving me nuts’
Observer restaurant critic Jay Rayner has urged PRs to stop sending follow-up emails to irrelevant pitches and do a “minimum amount of research”. Rayner was prompted to make his call after receiving...
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General election 2024 endorsements: Most of Fleet Street votes Labour
Most UK national newspapers have voted Labour in the 2024 general election with several previously Conservative-supporting newspapers switching allegiance in their endorsements. Previously...
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