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 ...

Americans concerned about fake news are turning to the British media for their version of the truth according to recent research by The Reynolds Journalism Project. Four of the most trusted news organisations are British, ...

Graduate trainee journalists are leaving journalism in their droves to follow a career in PR due to “copy and paste” practices adopted by many online newsrooms. Speaking to Press Gazette, an unnamed source said that ...

During 2016, the ‘fake news’ phenomenon became one of the most talked about issues relating to journalism and the internet, and its implications on democracy are still very much at the heart of debate today. ...

Journalists at the Financial Times have voted unanimously to back union demands to fix the gender pay gap at the newspaper. Journalists are concerned that woman working at the financial title are paid some 13% ...

Trinity Mirror, the UK’s largest newspaper publishing group, is stepping up its programme of cost savings following the news that the publisher saw print advertising sales fall by a staggering £27 million in the first ...