Computational Journalism Watch

Former Bauer Media news editor in chief John Pickford in the Bauer office. Picture: Bauer Media Long-serving broadcast journalists from the BBC and Bauer Media were recognised with MBEs in the King’s …

A London-based photographer has successfully sued a local news website only to find that its owners and editors are impossible to track down. The London Post meanwhile continues to publish with …

Wealthy and Westminster-ready student politicians at Oxford are successfully deploying legal threats to silence critical coverage in student media. This is a phenomenon I saw first-hand when running …

The Overlap podcast being recorded. Picture: Global LBC owner Global has taken a majority stake in Gary Neville’s sports podcast company The Overlap. The Overlap will join Global Studios, which …

Outside of DC Thomson office in Dundee. Picture: Shutterstock/Antoni M Lubek Subscriptions, advertising and cloud services revenues grew at Scotland-based media business DC Thomson in the year to 31 …

Investigative journalism in the Arab world is in deep crisis. The survival of reporters focused on accountability is uncertain. The costs of this work are high. Freedoms are declining, and independent …

Bill Hagerty. Picture: Reach PLC Former Sunday Today and The People editor Bill Hagerty has died aged 86 after a 70-year career spanning showbusiness, theatre and sports coverage. Hagerty was called …

An elite unit of Portugal’s Public Prosecutor’s Office is taking over a money laundering probe into Elvira Gavrilova Paterson, the Ukrainian producer of an upcoming Kevin Spacey film and associate of …

The year 2025 saw investigative journalism in India persist against increasingly difficult odds . Reporters pursued stories that exposed how power operates through money, policy, coercion, neglect, …

Picture: Shutterstock/Feng Yu Getty has been given permission to appeal parts of a ruling it lost over Stability AI’s alleged use of its images. It’s the latest in a series of legal battles going on …

When filmmakers started calling Zhu Rikun in late October to pull out of an independent Chinese film festival he was organizing in New York, he initially thought the problem could be solved by …

In an era where investigative journalism serves as a key instrument for societal change, editing watchdog reporting can be pivotal in making or breaking a story’s impact. From narrowing complex …

Sunday People front page on 11 August 2024 The Sunday People saw its average weekly print circulation decline by 26.4% year on year to 36,594 in November. The paper has seen the biggest year-on-year …

L-R top to bottom: Newsweek chief revenue officer Danielle Varvaro, Politico chief executive Goli Sheikholeslami, Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips, Reach director of growth David Bartlett, Bloomberg Media …

Manchester Evening News editor Sarah Lester. Picture: Reach Manchester Evening News editor Sarah Lester has said she is “fed up of playing algorithmic games” with Google as the regional newsbrand …

Many of GIJN’s most memorable original stories in 2025 reported on new thinking and innovative strategies to tackle emerging journalistic challenges in an era of dwindling resources and rising threats …

An illustration for The Fence’s Fighting Fund prize draw. Picture: Alex Christian London-based features magazine The Fence is fundraising to expand its staff and increase its output of investigations …

Zohran Mamdani canvassing in October 2025 for the mayoral election. Picture: Shutterstock/Lev Radin It’s a quiet festive period, and most of you will be off next week, so we’re doing a roundup of all …

L-R top to bottom: New York Times TVP of global advertising Tom Armstrong, Newsweek editor-in-chief Jennifer Cunningham, The Atlantic chief executive Nicholas Thompson, Forbes chief innovation …

One year after the fall of the Assad government in Syria, the Damascus Dossier investigation brought together more than 100 reporters to uncover new evidence of the regime’s abuses and reveal efforts …

The Houses of Parliament building in Westminster, London, UK. Picture: Nigel J Harris/Shutterstock Downing Street has scrapped its daily afternoon press briefing, in a move journalists warned could …

News coverage in 2025 was dominated by several seismic events, with data journalism outlets closely tracking a world shaped by US trade hegemony, the rising influence of AI, and the persistence of …

Facebook and Meta logos. Picture: Shutterstock Meta has begun a test restricting the number of links that creators and businesses can post per month on Facebook . A subset of Facebook pages plus user …

Malak A Tantesh picks up the New Journalist of the Year prize at the British Journalism Awards 2025. Picture: Press Gazette/Adam Duke Photography Palestinian journalist Malak A Tantesh told Press …

Investigative journalism in Turkey has shown remarkable resilience, depth, and impact this year, even though the operating conditions remain difficult and political pressures, limited access to …