Worth over £15 billion in the UK alone, the beauty industry is big business. Blame it on the lipstick effect if you like, but the recession hasn’t stopped women from spending, with the industry seeing ...

Asa Bennett recently joined The Huffington Post UK as its business reporter. A digital journalist for the entirety of his journalistic career, Asa has replaced Charlie Thomas who left earlier this year. Asa spoke to ...

The juxtaposition of long-form multimedia visualisations and quick-fire breaking news dominated the sessions at the latest digital journalism conference news:rewired. While digital media is still in an experimentation phase (something it may never leave) these ...

London Fashion Week starts tomorrow and the UK’s fashion media is gearing up for the industry’s biggest event. This year, 74 designers are showing on and off-schedule across five days, giving plenty of material for ...

ESTV’s new London-focused channel London Live is due for launch early next year. The channel will provide Londoners with reliable local news, information and advice and will provide 18 hours of content per day, occasionally ...

Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has reportedly bought a 5% stake in Vice Media for $70m (£45m). This puts the value of the ‘Definitive Guide to Enlightening Information’ at $1.4 billion (£900m). The deal could be ...

ELLE UK has launched an online store, while NET-A-PORTER unveiled a free weekly magazine back in February. There’s no doubt that content and commerce are converging – although print is in decline, the boom in e-commerce ...

Intern Magazine is a new publication funded by Kickstarter that will be launched later this year. The brainchild of former intern Alec Dudson, the magazine hopes to provide a platform for creative interns to showcase ...

Siân To is the founder of Cybher, a UK female blogger event. Also a founder of former mummy blogger event CyberMummy, Siân created Cybher to target all female bloggers rather than just mums. We asked ...

Cision worked with LexisNexis to create the top 11 most influential big data journalists in the UK.  Big data is an industry buzzword that most people are aware of but few seem to fully understand. ...

The Angle is a self-published novel from Police Professional reporter Liam Barnes. It follows trainee reporter Chris Young as he becomes a professional journalist and faces the challenges of digital media and the industry around ...

With print circulation dwindling, and blogs cementing their place within the media landscape, are women’s media publishers beginning to realise the potential of digital? Alice Revel explores what this means for PRs.  What’s your first ...

Tom Evans is the head of channels at MSN UK. He spoke to Cision about MSN’s future, digital media and his 21ft sailing boat. Tom started his media career as a runner at Thames Television’s ...

Barkingside 21 is featured in this week’s Media Updates. Editor Alan Howe spoke to Cision about the environment, guest posting and getting paid.  Why should people read your blog? To quote a local reporter: ‘We ...

Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired event had 11 digital media sessions and 35 speakers. Location information became an overarching theme as news organisations revealed how they use geotagging and audience data for digital stories. Vadim Lavrusik, journalism programme ...

Rhodri Marsden writes a weekly lifestyle column and monthly technology column for The Independent, a weekly column about Twitter for Shortlist.com and technology features for other publications. Rhodri spoke to Cision about David Bowie’s vegetable ...

Kelvin MacKenzie, ex-editor of The Sun and current columnist for the Daily Mail, is having a bad week. On 4 April, his new column appeared on the Telegraph’s website invariably insulting teachers, the government, Masterchef, ...

With all three political parties claiming victory in the press regulation deal, it can be difficult to know what exactly is going on. The agreement focuses on a royal charter, which will see the creation ...

This morning an audience of PRs were joined by The Daily Telegraph‘s consumer tech editor Matt Warman and British Beauty Blogger Jane Cunningham for breakfast at the Frontline Club. With pitching tips and content advice, the guests ...

When deciding to produce quality or chase quantity, publishers are left with a difficult decision. The seminars and services at the Publishing & Media Expo, while varied, all drew a similar picture of the industry ...