Royal Mail’s plans, announced today in their H1 Financial Results, will restrict citizens’ access to timely information and hurt the sustainability of the print publishing sector.
Royal Mail’s plans, announced today in their H1 Financial Results, will restrict citizens’ access to timely information and hurt the sustainability of the print publishing sector.
This will be the second external review of the independence and effectiveness of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).
It has been reportedthat the long-delayed Online Safety Bill will return to Parliament later this month, but with the ‘legal but harmful’ content category removed from the Bill’s scope.
Paul Scully MP has been appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy, overseeing online safety, digital markets regulation, and online advertising. He will also retain the role of Minister for London.
Sir Kier Starmer has voiced his support for Digital Markets Unit legislation in an op-ed for the Journalism Matters campaign.
Meta has stated it may be compelled to block news content in Canada in response to a new law that would force platforms to compensate publishers for the value that their content brings to tech giants.
The Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Select Committee has published a reporton the proposed Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill.
New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has an unenviable in-tray in Downing Street, but the First Lord of the Treasury has left no doubt over his position on key media issues.
Michelle Donelan, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, told a fringe event at Conservative Party Conference that the Digital, Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill will be brought into parliament in the current session.
Party conferences are odd. They are a time when political tribes reach out make their pitch to govern a nation of millions yet are simultaneously intensely introspective.
Strike action by the Communications and Workers Union (CWU) across eighteen days in the run-up to Christmas is likely to cause significant disruption to magazine deliveries.
The PPA has joined the Graphics and Print Media Alliance (GPMA), a group of trade associations representing companies operating in the graphics and print media industry supply chain.
The PPA has called on the new Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to support the specialist media industry, having begun her career in the sector.
A €25bn lawsuit is being launched against Google in the UK and EU, accusing the tech giant of abusing its market power in ad tech.
John Innes, Chair of PPA Scotland, and the PPA's Senior Public Affairs Executive, Sebastian Cuttill, met last week with Scottish Parliament member Neil Gray to discuss the key economic and social role of our sector, the potential for focused sector support, and ways in which the PPA and Scottish Government can work more closely going forwards.
Around 115,000 Royal Mail workers will strike on 26 and 31 August and 8 and 9 September, after the Communications Workers Union (CWU) rejected the company’s pay rise offer “worth up to 5.5%”.
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