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Culture secretary Nadine Dorries removes restrictions, potentially paving way for merger of newspapers

Press Gazette has asked 22 news leaders from across the UK and US to provide us with their biggest media predictions and opportunities for 2022.

Emma Tucker welcomes report from Muslim Council of Britain and says paper needs to hire more diverse staff

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is "minded to" allow News UK to end legal restrictions guaranteeing the editorial independence of the Times/Sunday Times.

LONDON: Despite the rise of Big Tech companies such as Google and Facebook, UK daily The Times’ Editor John Witherow argued that now is the “golden age for serious journalism.” “Today we are told it’s the tech giants who are killing us. Readers want everything for free, we must do click-bait, it’s a race to the bottom. Except that’s not true,” Witherow said at Europe’s largest

Former editor of Sunday Tribune will lead the Dublin operation of the News Corp title

‘Stuff of legends’: editors around world salute the Guardian on 200 years Alexandra Topping Leading newspaper editors and publishers from around the world have paid tribute to the Guardian, saluting its independence, influence and investigative courage as it celebrates its 200th anniversary. Publishers from Hong Kong to Denmark, the US to Brazil remarked that the Guardian had remained true to its roots as a liberal voice championing reform. “When you have been around 200 y...

Messages from media figureheads in Britain and around the world to mark the Guardian’s bicentenary<br>

April 22, 2021   The Times and The Sunday Times have today launched the new Times Earth editorial channel on Earth Day. Times Earth is a new digital hub for all news about our planet, climate change, sustainability problems, initiatives and solutions. It is a place for Times journalists to report on engaging stories, research and studies from around the world and take a deep dive economic look at sustainability to help readers make better-informed decisions.  Times Earth will also span across...

News Corp editors and execs met ministers 40 times in first 14 months of Johnson government News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch and his top executives in the UK and US met Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other high-level Government politicians seven times between them in seven weeks last summer. Murdoch (pictured) met with Johnson, paid for lunch with Chancellor Rishi Sunak, ate a private dinner with Michael Gove and had an “informal lunch between friends” with Jacob Rees-Mogg betw...