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The Canary has reportedly suspended its national weekday print newspaper after accusing Lloyds of closing its bank account and withholding funds. The left-wing news outlet has said it has been left unable to pay all its staff and is in a “financially precarious situation”. The newspaper’s print run lasted two weeks, with the Canary claiming this was always intended as a trial to “gauge how it would work operationally”. It reportedly has plans to relaunch in the coming weeks. The Canary

Google queries about the death of former Love Island presenter Caroline Flack’s brother this week have prominently displayed details about his suicide in AI summaries at the top of search results pages. Paul Flack died aged 55 after being found unresponsive at his home, six years after his sister took her own life. Google searches for “Caroline Flack brother” over the past two days have resulted in his method of suicide being displayed in the first section of the AI Overv

Publishers may be able to “sell directly from their apps and keep subscriber data” under new rules set out by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Jonny Kaldor, CEO of app developer for news publishers Pugpig, told Press Gazette this is “good news” for news organisations. The CMA proposals follow the designation of both companies’ mobile platforms under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act as having “strategic market status” in October last year &#8211

The Daily Mail is being sued over alleged “systematic” lifting of “thousands” of images from social media without permission or payment. A photographer named Matthew Moore who said one of his own images had been taken without permission has launched a class action lawsuit in New York on behalf of himself and anyone else in the US who has been affected in the past three years. The legal complaint calls this behaviour “standard practice” at the Daily Mail

Substack has revealed the 50 newsletters on its platform with the most UK paying subscribers for the first time. Michael Howell’s Capital Wars is the top Substack newsletter in the UK based on number of paying subscribers. Capital Wars is currently the fifth-ranked finance newsletter across Substack overall and is written by Howell, a former research director at investment bank Salomon Brothers. Finance is the biggest topic vertical in the top 50, accounting for 13 publications.

A Press Gazette article exposing the dubious ‘parasite SEO’ tactics of online marketing company Clickout Media has been removed from Google search results after a spurious anonymous legal challenge. UPDATE 2/7/2026: This story has now been reinstated in Google search results A mysterious entity called DRF Corp wrote to Google stating Press Gazette had “willfully violated copyright law by copying our entire content word for word, including all images, which are solely owned by our company”

The Guardian plans to create around 55 new jobs in the UK, US and Australia over the next year. The 55 new permanent roles will be across editorial, product development, analytics and commercial. The jobs are part of a multi-million pound investment designed to build a sustainable long-term future for The Guardian by making it “more visual, digital, global and experimental”. Editor-in-chief Katharine Viner first revealed in an interview with Press Gazette last year that The

A data protection claim brought against Mill Media has been dismissed by a County Court judge in what is thought to be the first court test of the journalism exemption in relation to a Subject Access Request for personal data. The exemption, which allows journalists to process personal data in the public interest, was relied upon by Mill Media to protect confidential sources from disclosure in a case brought by TV historian Laurence Westgaph. The case ruling, which left Mill Media incurrin

DMGT has announced an organisational shake-up which sees its consumer news division, DMG Media, renamed Daily Mail. The son of owner Lord Rothermere, Vere Harmsworth, has been promoted from chief commercial officer of DMG Media to executive chairman of Daily Mail. Metro, previously part of DMG Media, will transfer over to Harmsworth Media (which also includes New Scientist and The I Paper). Daily Mail comprises the Mail titles and their associated digital brands. In a note to staff,

The launch of The Economist’s premium video strand Insider last year has led to a “significant improvement” in subscriber retention. Economist Insider launched in October as a way to add “extra value” to subscriptions. It is also a new opportunity for sponsorship revenue and is currently supported by AI company Anthropic. The video offering, supported by a new purpose-built London studio, includes a weekly show from Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Be

Whilst interviewing Candr CEO Chris Dicker he reels off the names of the bots scraping its flagship site – Trusted Reviews – and stealing its content. “Oxy Labs, Gina AI, Zen Rose, Scrape AI, Zite, Scrapeless, Scrape Stack, Hyper Browser, Exa, Bright Data. I mean, there’s loads of them.” He works with Cloudflare and Tollbit to control and catalogue the bot attacks, but still they come. The aforementioned companies appear to be third-party scrapers – effectively content traffickers –

The BBC has revealed that entire radio programmes and 10% of senior roles are to be axed as part of the its 2,000 job cuts in its biggest downsizing in 15 years. The cuts make up £160m of its savings target of £500m (10% of total costs) over the next three years, announced in February, which will see up to 2,000 roles cut. Around 550 roles are expected to be cut across News, Nations and Content divisions by the start of 2027/28. These divisions would also be making a reduction in commis

The UK competition watchdog has called on Google to “improve transparency and fairness” in its ranking of search results. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has also made a currently voluntary data sharing tool a legal requirement for the firm. Google has come under scrutiny from the regulator after it designated the technology giant with strategic market status in October last year over its dominance in the sector, accounting for more than 90% of searches in the UK. On Wednesd

Publishers are losing ground against tech platforms in the UK as Meta and Alphabet increase their dominance of online media, a new Press Gazette ranking of UK online audience for April 2026 reveals. Our ranking of the biggest website owners in the UK by audience, based on Ipsos iris data, shows Meta and Alphabet significantly growing their already dominant positions. UK internet users spent 122 billion minutes with Alphabet-owned websites (including Google and Youtube) in April 2026, up 14

Wired is launching a new forum-style app which lets readers interact with its editorial team. The app, said to be launching “very soon”, is set to feature forums on which subscribers can interact with Wired journalists about the title’s key coverage areas across tech and politics. Arielle Goldstein, audience development manager at Wired, said the app will serve as a “community power play” and is one of several ways the brand is aiming to keep readers on its ow

World of Fine Wine publisher Ascend Media has launched a new title called World of Fine Spirits. The title already has a newsletter and is launching video content and an annual awards. Editor Alex Martin said: “It’s such an exciting time to be writing, and reading, about spirits. The market may feel difficult and unpredictable for brands, but for the drinker, there are more high-quality products than ever before. “We’ve assembled a team of contributors who have spent their w

Social and video platforms are now a bigger source of news consumption globally than TV or news websites/apps, according the 2026 Reuters Digital News Report on publishing trends. The report also found that the use of AI chatbots for news has not changed in the UK and US over the past year, although usage has grown from 7% globally to 10%. Trust in news is at a record low since the Digital News Report began its surveys in 2015, while interest in news has fallen notably in five years &#8211

A survey of journalists and production staff across UK public service media concluded climate reporting needs new approaches. Former Sky News head John Ryley explores what the findings tell us about newsroom priorities, audience needs and the future of climate journalism. Broadcast journalists in Britain say they rank climate change and environmental issues above many of the traditional pillars of news coverage – including the NHS, international conflict and immigration – yet

Publisher AI standards coalition SPUR has shared details of a proposed “common language” for tracking content usage by AI companies. SPUR aims to come up with a standard technical foundation for how AI platforms report on use of the content they scrape. This could be used by publishers when agreeing licensing deals. SPUR was launched at the start of the year by The Guardian, the Financial Times, BBC, Sky News and The Telegraph and has since added more than 20 other publisher me

The publisher of Spanish newspaper El Pais has set its sights on expansion in the Americas after six years of massive growth in terms of paying online readers. El Pais launched its first paywall in May 2020 and has gone from zero digital subscribers to 442,092 by the end of 2025 (including print subscribers that have activated digital access). It also has 12 million registered users (people who have signed up to access some free content). British investment firm Amber Capital is the majori