The referendum campaign has had a big impact on social media, with mediums such as Facebook and Twitter seeming to take center place as sources of information and debate. We look at how social media ...

The most successful brands trust their agency partners (including advertising, PR, media buying and digital) to make creative decisions, without too much client interference, and simply get on with the job they are paid to ...

At a time when traditional print media is haemorrhaging staff and old school publishers struggle to make any sense of the financial opportunities available to them via digital technology, good news is hard to buy. ...

The influence an editor yields over his or her reader is in decline according to the Digital News Report 2016 recently published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The report which focuses on ...

Swipe is a print magazine which aims to bring you the best stories from the internet. Having launched its first issue last month, editor in chief, Barney Guiton gives us the lowdown on Swipe, revealing ...

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) must take their job very serious because they have just announced new plans to enhance their dedicated whistleblowers’ hotline. The service, which provides an independent and confidential service for ...

So, it was another big night at yesterday’s CIPR awards. Now in its 32nd year, the ceremony awarded top performing PRs, campaigns, and projects across a wide range of sectors and disciplines. Full of glamour, ...

Tribune Publishing, owners of venerable newspaper titles including The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Time, has announced that it is changing its name and no longer wants to be known as a newspaper publisher. The new ...

We live in an age where it is imperative for brands to create multi-layered communications across all channels. One brand that has mastered how to do this is O2. From the online success of campaigns ...

Regional newspaper publisher, The CN Group, is betting big on the North South divide by launching a new “national” paper later this month with “a distinctively Northern prospective” to the news. Priced at 40p, 24 will ...

The recent news of further job cuts at The Telegraph, the UK’s best-selling and most profitable broadsheet, is another major blow to the wider newspaper industry. The positions of a number of senior staff on ...

Earlier in the month, a news story broke on Facebook that was so gruesome it not only outraged everyone who read it, it also threatened diplomatic relations between two countries. The story about China exporting ...

Dennis Skinner made the biggest impact on social media this year, after he upheld tradition and interrupted proceedings to protest the Government’s changes to the BBC. In terms of new legislation, the Government’s wide sweeping ...

Johnston Press has said it is continuing to look into the possibility of selling off some of its regional newspaper titles following the group’s acquisition of The i, their first foray into national territories. This follows ...

It’s been a turbulent week for the BBC. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has released its long awaited white paper on the BBC, outlining Culture Secretary John Whittingdale’s intentions for the future ...

Trinity Mirror had a golden opportunity to reinvigorate the newspaper industry with the launch of The New Day back in February of this year. They failed – miserably. The publisher touted The New Day as ...

One of the biggest challenges facing newspaper publishers today, and even before the web made inroads into their declining circulations, is engaging a younger audience. They are painfully aware that they must replace their ever ...

Think of the word “blogger” and all sorts of images will come to mind. Travel blogger, food blogger, technology blogger, celebrity blogger – blogging certainly sounds like a lot of fun. For many, blogging is ...

With 14.3 million followers on Twitter and a staggering 68.8 million followers on Instagram, it’s easy to see how a global star like Beyoncé can “drop” a number one album without first warming the release ...

Kanye West might be a global superstar but that doesn’t carry much weight on the Isle of Skye where his recent visit to the Scottish island to record a video was completely downplayed in the ...