Ofcom has found Channel 4 News in ‘serious breach’ of the broadcasting code. The episode in question, broadcast on 22 March, wrongly identified Abu Izzadeen as the Westminster terror attacker. As reported in the Guardian, ...

A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. Bell Pottinger The troubled PR giant is having a terrible week. James Henderson, CEO, resigned on Sunday. ...

Tab Media, the publisher behind the Tab and babe, has raised $6 million dollars in a financing round, with the majority coming from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The Tab was started by three students at ...

The consolidated viewing figures for the first episode of Great British Bake Off make it one of Channel 4’s most watched programmes of all time. Taking into account time-shifted viewing over a seven-day period, the ...

Reuters has launched a new grant programme to encourage the next generation of photojournalists to share original visual stories from around the world. Reuters is offering up to eight grants, worth $5,000 each, to photojournalists ...

A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. Hurricane Harvey The devastating Hurricane Harvey and flooding that ensued across Texas has held the international media’s ...

The Guardian has launched a US-based non-profit organisation in an attempt to support quality independent journalism. Its website, theguardian.org states that its mission is to advance and inform public discourse and citizen participation around the ...

We are delighted to announce that this year’s judges, who will together decide the winners of every category at the Vuelio Blog Awards 2017, represent a genuine variety of skills, experience and perspectives. Ahead of ...

The comments sections of many newspaper websites are hardly the bastion of tolerance and fair argument. Seemingly left unmoderated, user-generated comment is, by and large, a free-for-all for trolls and haters of all shapes and ...

Amazon has hinted that it’s about to get serious about streaming live TV sports, threatening the dominance of traditional broadcasters like Sky. Speaking at Edinburgh’s International Television Festival, Roy Price, head of Amazon Studios said: ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s new daughter August has been announced to world on Facebook. In a sentimental post, Mark and Priscilla have written a letter to August about the world they hope she grows ...

A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. Happy birthday hashtag Ten years ago, Chris Messina tweeted ‘how do you feel about using # (pound) ...

It started ten years ago as one man’s suggestion to group messages and ideas with the # symbol and now over 125 million hashtags are used on Twitter every day. The symbol is older than ...

First News, the newspaper aimed at children between the ages of seven and 14, has become the UK’s bestselling children’s periodical with an average weekly combined print and digital circulation of 86,413 in the first ...

According to media reports, Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), the publisher behind the Daily Mail is considering selling its Metro freesheet following a decline in advertising sales and profits at the newspaper. The publisher ...

The BBC World Service is expanding its number of languages in the biggest such move since the 1940s. The Service is aiming to reach the countries that are most in need of independent news, and ...

Kaloyan Konstantinov is a Bulgarian journalist and student at King’s College London. He recently attended newsrewired and was inspired to write about his own experiences as an immigrant looking for a job and the struggles ...

The politics of hate have once again become a burning issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Stateside, a number of CEOs have quit advisory roles at the Whitehouse following President Trump’s position following the ...

Christian Ager-Hanssen, the London-based Norwegian billionaire-owner of the Swedish version of the Metro has bought a 5% share in British regional publisher Johnston Press. Shares in the company, which has been struggling with massive debt ...

Celebrity chef and food campaigner Jamie Oliver has attacked the Government for its lack of PR or comms following the publication of its delayed childhood obesity plan last August. The report, which was published during ...