Support for Page 3 ban growing

There is growing support for a ban on topless photos of women in national newspapers, according to a women’s charity. Continue Reading

Thomson Reuters staff set to strike

Journalists at Thomson Reuters are set to go on strike for the first time in 25 years in protest of a “below-inflation” pay offer. Continue Reading

NoW staff who ordered phone hacking may be named by Mulcaire

Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator embroiled in the News of the World phone hacking scandal, may soon be forced to name the people who gave him the orders. Continue Reading

Twitter could comply with UK gagging orders

Twitter’s ability to block tweets on a country-by-country basis means it could now comply with gagging orders in the same way as newspapers. Continue Reading

Sky taking TV service online

Sky taking TV service online

Sky will soon be bringing its television services to broadband customers, negating the need for a traditional set-top box. Continue Reading

PCC chairman acknowledges the need for ‘fresh start’

Press Complaints Commission chairman Lord Hunt believes newspaper publishers should have to sign a five-year rolling contract with a “totally new” press watchdog in order to reign in “bad journalism”. Continue Reading

Telegraph titles make 30 redundancies

Telegraph Media Group is making 30 compulsory redundancies across its two national newspapers to free up money for its digital services. Continue Reading

Older women and youth being ‘misrepresented’ by television

Young people on television are being misrepresented as “disrespectful” and living “unproductive and vacuous lives”, according to a survey commissioned by the BBC. Continue Reading

 

"The Daily Mail is being far too modest… the runaway success of the website owes very little to piggy-backing on 'the strengths of the newspaper'."


The Media Blog‘s Will Sturgeon credits Mail Online’s picture desk as the “engine room” of its booming growth after comScore named it the world’s biggest newspaper site.


(Source: The Media Blog)