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A year on from launch millions of people have signed up for updates from publishers on Whatsapp Channels.
But it's topics, not brands, that do best: the top non-US publisher is the Daily Mail - not for its all-purpose account, but for "Daily Mail Kardashians News"
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New: The Evening Standard is set to begin phasing out its daily print newspaper within a month.
The free London newspaper will stop publishing on Mondays and Fridays from 2 August, as a precursor to going weekly
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Daily Mail publisher DMGT has pulled out of the race to buy The Daily Telegraph, citing "a heightened risk of a protracted regulatory process".
Remaining contenders include GB News funder Paul Marshall and regional publisher National World.
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The Welsh Senedd has voted down a proposal to stop requiring councils to publish tax change notices in print newspapers.
The result prompted relief from many of the largest newspaper publishers in Wales — but consternation at smaller independent titles:
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CNN chief executive Mark Thompson has told staff that the organisation is cutting around 100 jobs, equivalent to approximately 3% of its total workforce
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City AM editor Andy Silvester is stepping down after almost four years at the helm during which he oversaw the business paper's post-Covid print return, a digital-first transition and its takeover by THG pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
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Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman has reportedly made a "multimillion-dollar investment" to help voting technology company Smartmatic sustain its defamation lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax:
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The Washington Post’s planned creation of a “third newsroom” separate from news and opinion has taken a key step with the appointment of managing editor Krissah Thompson to build it.
The project aims to reach new audiences and find new revenue streams:
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'Discussions' expected to start taking place at GB News over whether Nigel Farage will continue as a presenter after being elected as a Reform MP. Jacob Rees-Mogg, who lost his seat, has said he will return to the channel.
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Lisa Nandy, the UK’s new culture secretary, has a history of backing the BBC licence fee and praising local journalism in her constituency.
But Nandy has also said the BBC’s structure needs reform and that it should be “owned and directed by licence fee holders”:
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"11.05pm: Word arrives that, over at the New Statesman party at the National Liberal Club, they are already on their second play-through of D:Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better."
Inside the Politico and New Statesman election night parties:
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Your Foresight news diary for the week ahead: new Parliament opens, Euros and Wimbledon finals and NATO summit in the US
(Plus: International Town Criers Day on Monday, Cow Appreciation Day in the US on Tuesday) pressgazette.co.uk/news/foresig...
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Election TV ratings: BBC clear winner, but Channel 4 doubles 2019 audience pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b...
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The publisher of the Wall Street Journal has failed in its bid to dismiss a data protection lawsuit it claimed was being “brought under a false flag to avoid the rules that apply to defamation claims” pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/wa...
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Two of Sir Keir Starmer’s fiercest Fleet Street critics have offered him their congratulations - but others were less upbeat pressgazette.co.uk/news/general...
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Specialist magazine publisher Fieldsports Press has acquired Gunmart, Gun Trade World, What Gun? and The Sporting Airgun Handbook. The deal marks the publisher's sixth acquisition in as many years:
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The Times has turned off comments under its leader article declaring it will not endorse a party in the 2024 general election after readers chastised the paper for fence-sitting.
"From The Thunderer to Passive Aggressive Whimperer", wrote one subscriber
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Ofcom will not investigate Channel 4 News after Nigel Farage’s Reform UK claimed it used an actor as a “plant” in its undercover investigation into his campaign.
The broadcaster said the decision "underscores the integrity of Channel 4 News’s journalism":
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The Times, having left it until polling day, has declined to endorse any party.
The Daily Star meanwhile said it thought "Count Binface was probably the best option but we're willing to give this other fella [Keir Starmer] and his party a chance too".
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The Sun has endorsed the Labour Party for the first time since 2005, declaring: “As Britain goes to the polls, it’s time for a new manager (and we don’t mean sack Southgate)”
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The Evening Standard is the latest newspaper to endorse the Labour Party, having endorsed the Conservatives in 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019.
The London paper said that “after 14 years in office, the Tories have earned the right to lose”.
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Two veteran local newspaper columnists who left their title amid cost cuts in May are making more money — and believe they are cutting sharply into their old employer's circulation — after launching their own newsletters on Substack:
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Labour donor Dale Vince is suing Guido Fawkes owner Paul Staines for libel, accusing the blog of suggesting he supports Hamas.
Vince has reportedly secured damages from the Daily Mail and GB News over similar claims:
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The former deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph and launch editor of British Grazia, Jane Bruton, is to join Good Housekeeping UK as editor-in-chief later this year: pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
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The NUJ and Springer Nature have agreed a two-year settlement that will end their pay dispute. The organisations said recent events "emphasised the importance of open dialogue, and we are dedicated to ensuring that this continues to be a central aspect of our working relationship".
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Privacy Sandbox, Google’s upcoming replacement for third-party cookies, will reduce publishers’ revenue from programmatically-sold online ads by 60%, according to new research from advertising platform Criteo: pressgazette.co.uk/news/google-...
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The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have continued distributing fake newspapers at this general election, despite prior criticism from media groups.
The Lib Dems have now defended the practice, arguing they are "an effective way of communicating"
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Enemies of the Nigel: the Reform UK leader has widened his media beefs, accusing the BBC, Channel 4 and Daily Mail of biased coverage pressgazette.co.uk/news/nigel-f...
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The Sunday Times and FT have both backed Labour in the general election.
The titles, which in the 2019 election respectively endorsed the Tories and no party at all, join The Independent, Observer and Guardian in vouching for Labour in recent days:
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Your Foresight News diary for the week ahead:
- General election day in the UK
- Second round of French snap election
- US Supreme Court may decide on Trump prosecution immunity
- Wimbledon kicks off
- Closing arguments due in Lucy Letby retrial pressgazette.co.uk/news/foresig...
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NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet is stepping down after 13 years in the role, triggering an election for her replacement.
The first woman to lead the union, Stanistreet's two and a half terms have encompassed a tumultuous time for the industry: pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
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BBC broadcaster Stephen Nolan has filed a libel lawsuit against Irish News journalist Rodney Edwards who said: "While I do feel this is an attempt to intimidate, silence and spook me, it is not going to work..."
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Eighteen hour days, power naps and gallons of Huel: Sky News' Sam Coates has lifted the lid on what a typical day covering the general election campaign trail looks like - revealing a lifestyle not for the faint of heart
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The Times is putting the price of its Saturday edition up from £3.50 to £4 next week, with The Sunday Times going from £4 to £4.50. The Federation of Independent Retailers says there is "anger" as profit margins for newsagents won't increase until January: thefedonline.com/homepage/ang...
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Justice for Marlborough News!
Following coverage in Press Gazette, Savills has agreed to pay a copyright bill issued to the Wiltshire-based hyperlocal site over its publication of an image the property company assured was provided rights-free pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...
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Health Service Journal will move under private equity ownership following a sale by owner Wilmington.
The healthcare business had gross assets of £34.1m and reported a profit before tax of £2.5m in the year to 30 June 2023.
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The next executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review is Sewell Chan, the current editor in chief of prominent non-profit The Texas Tribune.
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The Economist has endorsed Labour as the campaign enters its final week, marking its first endorsement for the party since 2005.
The magazine said Labour “is right in its diagnosis that nothing matters more than solving Britain’s stagnant productivity”:
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'This enormous amount of opinion polls have been allowed to drive the news agenda too much': Less on polls, more policy please, says 5 News political editor Andy Bell pressgazette.co.uk/news/less-po...
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Former Daily Mail editor Geordie Greig last night suggested coverage of Tory sleaze saw him get sacked and said that his former title has since “wallpapered over” government scandals:
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CNN chief executive Mark Thompson has teased he hopes to have a subscription product in the market by the end of the year. www.axios.com/2024/06/25/c...
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The Telegraph has raised its weekday cover price from £3 to £3.50, with the Saturday edition rising from £4 to £4.50 and Sunday also from £3 to £3.50.
The Federation of Independent Retailers says the increase will cut the margin retailers receive per sale. thefedonline.com/news/demands...
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Uri Berliner — the journalist who was suspended and then resigned from NPR after 25 years following his public criticism of its recent coverage in a piece for Bari Weiss' The Free Press — has joined The Free Press as a senior editor.
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A Matt Hancock statement was used in a “seriously misleading” way in a Mail on Sunday article about cholesterol-lowering medications, the High Court has ruled.
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Observer restaurant critic Jay Rayner has written to the CEO of PR platform Synapse complaining about the deluge of irrelevant pitches and follow-up emails journalists receive.
"I am constantly astonished by the amount of unfocussed drivel sent my way"
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Estate agent Savills (annual turnover: £2bn) has landed a non-profit, hyperlocal news site with a bill for £460 after sending out a PR image it did not have the rights to use. The company has declined to take responsibility for the bill.
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Evening Standard courts correspondent and 2024 Paul Foot Award winner Tristan Kirk has told Press Gazette about his fight to bring transparency to the single justice procedure - and how the next government has a chance to prevent further secret justice
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The Daily Record is latest newspaper to declare its election endorsement, backing Labour in its first backing for a single party since 2010.
It tells readers: "This election is not about independence."
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison and left the UK after reaching a plea deal with US authorities.
He will return to Australia after his plea and sentencing, scheduled for Wednesday morning local time in the Mariana Islands. pressgazette.co.uk/news/julian-...
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The website of MTV News has been pulled from the internet along with two decades' worth of content. Sister site CMT (formerly Country Music Television) also appears to have been closed.
MTV News was shuttered last year by parent company Paramount Global:
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