The Manchester Evening News was pranked into publishing a fake news story about a “naked streak” supposedly taking place in the city to raise funds for the Manchester Pride Community Fund. The fake story was ...

Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler has issued guidance to his agency staff on how they should cover US politics under the Trump administration. In a post on the Reuters site, Adler commented on the work the agency ...

The anonymous nature of the web, particularly online forums and social media networks, has for many years served to embolden an army of whistle-blowers, concerned-consumers and, at the other end of the spectrum, Internet Trolls. ...

Proving just how much power social media influencers have, the new First lady Melania Trump has filed a lawsuit against a political blogger who reported rumours that she worked as a high-end escort. A judge ...

Newspaper publishing presses are very much like commercial aircraft, they cost millions to build and lose money when not “in flight”. For newspapers like The Guardian who have seen their print sales plummet in recent ...

Facebook is making significant changes to the way it handles “trending news” as part of a concerted effort to remove “fake news” from the social network. Instead of focusing on individual items that have drawn a ...

Arron Banks, the multi-millionaire businessman, who donated more than £7 million to Nigel Farage’s Leave.EU campaign ahead of the Brexit referendum and who recently faced criticism after his name appeared in the Panama Papers linking him ...

While Barack Obama was the first American politician to turn to social media in his race for the Whitehouse, you could argue that Donald Trump was the first to use the medium (especially Twitter) to ...

Bloggers might relish the opportunity to “let rip” in their own small part of cyberspace but they should remember they are bound by the same laws professional journalists must adhere to. For example, defamation is ...

There are very few presidents who had the charisma, charm, eloquence, coolness and global appeal as Barack Obama. Described as one of the greatest orators of his generation, Obama was one of a kind. But ...

It’s not often that the work of a humble TV reviewer from a Sunday broadsheet hits the headlines and goes viral – but we are living in strange times. Damien Love, a TV reviewer for ...

The BBC has always been a more cautious news provider than many of its commercial rivals. This was highlighted during the recent Brussels Airport terrorist attack when television and online news channels rushed to social ...

User generated content such as comments added to online articles have always divided opinion. At worst, online comments are nothing more than abusive rants and incoherent spam. Occasionally, comments are (often unintentionally) very funny. TV Comedian ...

The Fight Inequality Alliance is a coalition of leading national and international non-profit organisations, fighting to combat the ever disparate income levels between richest and poorest. Today, it has taken over the official hashtag for ...

2016 was a big year for us at Vuelio! We launched a new website with a clean design and intuitive navigation, allowing visitors to find the information they’re looking for much faster, and it was ...

Want to kick-start 2017 with a product that will make all the difference to your PR? Join us on January 31st at 11am to learn about the software most successful PRs use to get their story heard by key influencers and ...

It’s fair to say, the EU isn’t very popular with the majority of the British press but that might change very soon thanks to a new proposal in the EU’s forthcoming ePrivacy Directive. The Directive ...

For a man keen to remove himself from the public glare and “get his life back”, former UKIP leader, Nigel Farage seems to be doing a better job than most of his political opponents at ...

Future Publishing has secured the future of hard rock and heavy metal magazines Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Prog Magazine following the collapse of their publisher TeamRock days before Christmas. Future has paid £800,000 for ...

Trinity Mirror has re-opened talks to acquire The Express and Star newspapers from media mogul Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell publishing group. Confirming the talks, a spokesperson for Trinity Mirror told journalists: “The board of Trinity ...