Gender pay gap: Pay disparity increases at third of UK media companies as...
Almost a third of UK media companies have seen their gender pay gaps increase (in favour of men) on the year before, new figures reveal. Press Gazette analysis shows the pay gap increased at 11 news...
View ArticleJon Snow to be investigated over 'so many white people' remark in pro-Brexit...
Ofcom has opened an investigation into Channel 4 News after presenter Jon Snow said he had “never seen so many white people in one place” while reporting on a pro-Brexit rally. More than 2,600...
View ArticleChannel 4 News political correspondent Michael Crick announces sudden departure
Channel 4 News political correspondent Michael Crick has announced his sudden departure from the broadcaster. Crick tweeted last night that he has left after seven-and-a-half years with plans to go...
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Russian-backed video agency Ruptly beats UK media to exclusive Julian Assange...
A Kremlin-backed video news agency beat all UK media outlets to secure exclusive footage of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange being forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy after seven years today....
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Faisal Islam bids farewell to Sky News after five years as political editor
Sky News political editor Faisal Islam bid farewell to the broadcaster yesterday after five years covering what he described as a “rollercoaster of mutating political crises”. Islam is taking on the...
View ArticleBroadcast training boss warns of 'gradual erosion' of social skills as...
A top broadcast journalism trainer has claimed a “gradual erosion” of real-life social skills, brought on by social media and smartphone use, could pose a “massive problem” for the news industry. Jon...
View ArticleOutgoing Radio 4 controller admits cutbacks have impacted station's...
Outgoing BBC Radio 4 controller Gwyneth Williams has admitted cutbacks at the station have impacted on its programmes and staff reporting. Williams also said it was a “big struggle” to get more women...
View ArticleOfcom fines UK Urdu-language news channel £75,000 for 'hate speech' against...
Broadcast regulator Ofcom has fined an Urdu-language news and current affairs channel’s UK arm £75,000 for broadcasting “hate speech” against members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Channel 44,...
View ArticleBritish Journalism Awards 2019: Full list of categories and criteria for entry
Press Gazette is proud to launch the British Journalism Awards for 2019. This is the only major journalism awards event in the UK which is open to all journalists, regardless of medium, and which has a...
View ArticleSky News presenter says sorry for 'patronising' interview with tenant facing...
A Sky News presenter has apologised over an interview with a woman facing eviction that was described as “patronising”. Jayne Secker (pictured) appeared to suggest younger tenants “aren’t equipped with...
View ArticleJournalists have 'nothing to fear' from artificial intelligence in newsrooms,...
Journalists have “nothing to fear” from artificial intelligence, according to a leading media technology expert who has worked with Sky News. Matt Eaton, general manager for Europe at machine learning...
View ArticleITN reports increased broadcast news revenues of £88.9m for 2018
ITN’s broadcast news revenues increased slightly to £88.9m in 2018, up from £87.8m the year before. The production company, which makes the ITV News, Channel 4 News and 5 News programmes, said its news...
View ArticleEmily Maitlis says it's 'patronising' to assume Newsnight viewers 'couldn't...
Emily Maitlis has said it is “quite patronising” to assume BBC Newsnight viewers “couldn’t handle” interviews with controversial figures, such as Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon....
View ArticleSky Sports News executive editor Andy Cairns steps down after 30 years
Sky Sports News executive editor Andy Cairns is stepping down this summer after 30 years with the broadcaster. Cairns began at Sky News as a sports editor in 1989 and was part of the team that launched...
View ArticleJeremy Hunt: Broadcaster RT (Russia Today) is part of Russia's efforts to...
Russia used “weapons of disinformation” to spread the Kremlin’s version of events about the Salisbury nerve agent attack last year, Jeremy Hunt is to say in a speech marking World Press Freedom Day....
View ArticleReporter and student journalists barred from local election count in Kent
Three journalists were left in the cold last night as they were banned from entering a local election count in Kent. A reporter from the Dartford Messenger and two paid interns working for local TV...
View Article'You can’t carry on chasing politicians... forever,' says Michael Crick on...
Michael Crick has said he has not “hung up his boots” as a reporter, despite his sudden departure from Channel 4 News last month. The former political correspondent told BBC’s Politics Live today that...
View ArticleDaily Mail's US TV entertainment news programme wins Emmy award
The Daily Mail’s US TV entertainment news programme has won an Emmy. Daily Mail TV took home the Outstanding Entertainment News Program at the Daytime Emmy Awards in California on Sunday. It launched...
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Danny Baker labels BBC sacking over royal baby chimp tweet a 'masterclass of...
Broadcaster Danny Baker has said his sacking from BBC Radio 5 Live today, over a tweet about the new royal baby that pictured a chimp dressed in a coat and hat, had been a “masterclass of pompous...
View ArticleOfcom to investigate claim Chinese state broadcaster aired forced confession...
Ofcom has launched a formal investigation into the international arm of China’s state broadcaster over an allegation that it broadcast a forced confession from a jailed British citizen on UK TV. Former...
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