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Survey finds 88 per cent of mag readers prefer print
Welsh are most likely to seek out local news on the internet and buy local newspapersOnline magazine subscriptions remain flat at just 2 per cent62 per cent pay more attention to newspaper adverts...
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Welsh govt panel to look at new models for journalism
Panel would be staffed by independent media expertsOnline advertising ‘will not have significant impact' of newspaper profitsRisks of ‘news black-holes' where titles closeThe National Assembly has...
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Rajars: All UK radio station figures for first quarter 2012
News radio stations saw listener numbers fall as radio listening across the board fell slightly in the first quarter of this year.Radio 4's flagship current affairs show Today saw one of the biggest...
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BBC strike threat averted as journalists accept 1 per cent
Journalists at the BBC have accepted a 1 per cent pay rise staving off the threat of strike action disrupting the Queen's Jubilee celebrations next month.The pay offer for 2012 -13 also includes a...
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Former Newsnight editor George Entwistle is BBC DG
The director of BBC Vision, George Entwistle, has been named as the successor to outgoing director-general Mark Thompson.Entwistle has been with the BBC since 1989 when he joined as a broadcast...
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Son beat ex-BBC journalist dad to death with a hammer
A son beat his retired BBC journalist father to death with a hammer in a "shocking and gruesome" attack at the country cottage they shared, a court heard today.Joseph Cooper, 24, even broke the hammer...
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Reading Chronicle editor accuses BBC of lifting stories
The editor-in-chief of the Reading Chronicle has accused BBC radio of reading out page leads from her paper “masquerading as its own news bulletin”.Sally Stevens raised her concerns with Labour’s...
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Richard Horsman: Why UK commercial radio news has become a vampire industry
Richard Horsman is a radio consultant and lecturer at Leeds Trinity University College Don't get me wrong, I love commercial radio. I worked in it for 22 years, plus a further two as a consultant, and...
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BBC losing out in fight for London radio listeners - plus full Rajar round-up
BBC London 94.9 continued to lose ground to commercial rival LBC in the second quarter of this year. According to figures released by Rajar, the BBC London station reached 374,000 listeners a week...
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Owners of Australian prank call radio station accuse British media of...
The owners of the Australian radio station behind a prank call where the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge has suggested the UK media is on a “witch-hunt” after one of the nurses they duped was found dead...
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BBC looks for new head of news as Helen Boaden becomes director of radio
The BBC is recruiting a new director of news after moving Helen Boaden to the job of director, BBC Radio.Boaden was sidelined from her job in November pending the outcome of the Pollard review into BBC...
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NUJ plans more strike action at the BBC over Easter
The National Union of Journalists and broadcast union BECTU have announced plans to take strike action at the BBC over Easter.The unions said the action is being taken in protest at compulsory...
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NUJ and Bectu to hold BBC-wide strike on Maundy Thursday
The National Union of Journalists has announced strike action at the BBC next week threatening a string of high-profile news and current affairs shows.In a joint action with Bectu, staff will walk out...
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BBC Scotland strike averted as three redundancies put on hold
The National Union of Journalists has cancelled tomorrow’s planned BBC strike action in Scotland after management agreed to defer compulsory redundancies.Following an eleventh hour intervention, plans...
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BBC receives nearly 600 complaints over Boris Johnson interview
The BBC has now received nearly 600 complaints over Eddie Mair's interview with Boris Johnson on the Andrew Marr Show.A BBC spokesman said the total number of complaints was 589, having risen from 384...
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NME Radio ceases broadcasting as publisher IPC announces decision to bring...
NME Radio stopped broadcasting at midday on Monday, shortly before NME magazine owners IPC Media announced a decision to bring the station back in-house. The award-winning station was taken off air...
View ArticleNew BBC director general Tony Hall begins task of 'winning back trust'
Tony Hall began work as the sixteenth BBC director general this morning, and is spending much of his first day speaking to staff about how to improve the corporation's reputation.Lord Hall, 62, was...
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Torin Douglas bows out after 24 years on media beat: 'The fact is, morale...
Torin Douglas leaves the BBC after 24 years as media correspondent next month and he told Press Gazette that he leaves the corporation at a time when morale is low.Douglas cited job cuts under the...
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BBC offers six school-leavers chance to break into radio journalism
BBC Radio is launching a new apprenticeship scheme believed to be the first of its kind, which will focus on giving school leavers a chance to break into radio. The two-year BBC Radio Journalism...
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Axegrinder: Newspaper reporting now worse than being a janitor...Torin...
Good news from the Loverson InquiryIt’s rather sweet really that an office romance has come out of the Leveson Inquiry.Loathsome perma-tanned counsel for the victims of press intrusion David Sherborne...
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