Last week, three podcast professionals came together for our second PPA Live! event to discuss how publishers can use podcasts effectively and podcast innovation in a COVID-19 world.

 Bauer Media has announced a brand-new service that will help advertisers communicate with audiences appropriately and effectively during lockdown. It will be available to Bauer Media clients on all projects, no matter the budget or scale of the campaign.

Plans to scrap VAT on e-publications fast-tracked and will come into force tomorrow.

Following a PPA request, Ofcom's weekly tracker survey which gathers research on how people are receiving and acting on news and information during the pandemic, will now include magazine media.

Organisers of the Sustainable Event Awards have announced event software companyEvessio as their official partner and platform provider for the inaugural event which will take place online in September 2020.

Artificial intelligence in the publishing world.

Immediate Media Co, the special interest content and platform company, has announced that Mel Sherwood, has been appointed as editor of Your Home.

Condé Nast has announced the appointment of Sarah Shannon as Editorial Director of Vogue Business, effective 18th May. Vogue Business launched in January 2019, as Condé Nast’s first business media title.

Bauer Media has announced the appointment of Sam Gallimore as Subscriptions Director and Managing Director of Women’s Specialist and Hobbies, reporting directly to Chris Duncan CEO of the UK Publishing Business.

BBC Science Focus has launched a brand-new podcast series, ‘Everything you wanted to know about…but were afraid to ask’, speaking to world-leading experts to answer Google’s most searched for queries and tackle questions from listeners.

The PPA Awards 2020, originally scheduled to take place on the evening of June 30 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, will go ahead as a virtual event.

UPDATE: DCMS respond to PPA letter written to Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, calling for the adjustments to government schemes intended to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus in order to provide greater support for UK publishers.

Air Business CEO Adam Sherman shares a message with PPA members and Air Business staff and customers.

On 30th October last year Future plc announced its intention to buy TI Media. Since then Future has been working with the Competition Markets Authority in the UK to get competition clearance

Bauer Media yesterday announced the appointment of Chris Duncan as the new CEO for its UK publishing business.

Paul McNamee, Editor of the Big Issue spoke with PPA CEO Barry McIlheney about what has happened to the iconic street title since the streets have emptied, as part of the first PPA Live! event series.