BBC News faces hundreds of job cuts in major downsizing drive Media The BBC is expected to announce hundreds of job cuts across its core news division next week, as the broadcaster begins a sweeping cost-cutting programme ahead of crunch talks with ministers over its future funding. The corporation’s news operation is set to be the first part of the BBC to reveal detailed redundancy plans, according [...]
City PM’s Magazine Editor Steve Dinneen wins Features Writer of the Year Life&Style City PM’s magazine editor Steve Dinneen walked away with the Features Writer of the Year award at the prestigious Regional Press Awards last week, beating rivals including LondonCentric, the Manchester Evening News and Reach PLC. The gong was one of two awards for which City PM was competing, with The Magazine also reaching the shortlist [...]
UK media giants join forces to curb AI’s use of their journalism Media Sky News has teamed up with the BBC, the Financial Times, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph to form a new coalition aimed at setting industry standards for how AI uses news content. The group, under the name the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition (SPUR), has been launched in response to growing concern that [...]
Steven Bartlett hiring journalists for new tech news site December 1, 2025 Dragons’ Den entrepreneur Steven Bartlett has set up his own journalism website focused on technology news, City PM can reveal. The website, Founded.com, is to report on technology companies based in the UK and US and is expected to officially launch in the middle of December. A total of 10 journalists, as well as an [...]
Starmer urged to back journalism as AI erodes trust in UK media November 3, 2025 Britain’s media leaders have urged the Prime Minister to take decisive action to protect trusted journalism from a rising tide of misinformation, warning that the future of the country’s news ecosystem is at risk. In a letter to Keir Starmer, senior figures from the BBC, Sky, ITN, and the News Media Association (NMA), which represents [...]
From fake AI journalism to very real lives: An anatomy of a scoop September 2, 2025 Last week I wrote a wild story that began with an AI-generated pitch about warring London chicken shops and ended with a video call to Nairobi with the man who had willed it into existence. Wilson Kaharua – working under the alias Joseph Wales – was not a criminal mastermind but a small-time SEO writer [...]
The Guardian slashes losses amid record sales following The Observer deal May 27, 2025 The Guardian has slashed its losses and achieved a record revenue in the year the media group sold The Observer. The title achieved a revenue of around £275m, according to unaudited figures for the year to 31 March 2025, up from the £257.8m it posted for its prior financial year. The Guardian’s losses, which it [...]
Financial Times battles misinformation and rising costs as readership drops October 10, 2024 The number of people picking up a physical copy of the Financial Times has dropped amid the title battling rising costs – including hiring more journalists. The broadsheet said its operating profit fell by £4.56m year on year, from £13.41m to £8.95m, in newly-filed accounts with Companies House. The dip was “in part the result [...]
Business leaders must seize the opportunities of the new media age October 2, 2024 Understanding the new media age is a must for bosses, argues Grayling CEO Heather Blundell Almost 30-years ago, in 1996, Bill Gates wrote his seminal essay, “Content is King,” examining the paramount importance of content in the digital era. The future he envisioned – a print press evolving into electronic online editions with deeper and [...]
Has Linkedin lost the plot? September 27, 2024 Over on Linkedin, people are exposing their nether-region-nasties purely for engagement, and that cannot be an expression of a healthy society
