Culture, media and sports secretary Lisa Nandy set out the government’s Local Media Strategy in a speech at the Society of ...

Almost all of the new £12m local news fund will go towards digital innovation initiatives, it emerged today as the government ...

A senior regional press editor has urged ministers to tackle the ‘visibility’ issue facing local journalism alongside its proposed new £12m funding for the sector. As reported earlier on HTFP, culture ...

The government is to unveil a new £12m funding stream to support local news provision, with help focused on so-called ‘news deserts.’ Ministers are today publish their long-awaited Local Media ...

Police forces have agreed a wide-ranging series of measures to repair the “broken” relationship with the media, including releasing mugshots for all custodial sentences. Journalists are hailing a new ...

A journalist who used to work for Jeremy Kyle has moved to a new regional reporting role. Verity Wishart has taken up a new ...

A football reporter has rejoined a regional daily after seven months away. Adam Harvey has announced his return to the ...

A hyperlocal website has opened a new office on the High Street in what its proprietor called his ‘proudest moment.’ ...

A council has refused to tell a regional daily the reasons why it has called an extraordinary meeting this week. Nuneaton and ...

A regional daily website has been ordered to publish a correction after a misleading headline which suggested the government was about to means-test pensions. The Plymouth Herald ran an online story ...

A regional newspaper journalist has donated one of her kidneys to a 16-year-old girl whose mother contacted the local paper ...

The NCTJ is launching a new campaign to target would-be journalists from Generation Z after research showed ‘declining youth ...