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John Swinney urges UK’s biggest news agency to reconsider Scottish job cuts

FIRST Minister John Swinney has urged PA Media to reconsider its plans to cut jobs in its Scottish newsroom ...

The National (Scotland) · May 3, 2025

MPs told of ‘suspicions’ of UK-wide spying on journalists by police

Two Belfast journalists told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that such surveillance was an ‘attack on democracy’.

Evening Standard · Feb 5, 2025

BBC complains to Apple over ‘inaccurate’ AI summaries of news alerts

The BBC has complained to Apple after its artificial intelligence tools provided inaccurate summaries of its headlines to users on its newest…

The National (Scotland) · Jan 7, 2025

Deal agreed to sell the Observer to Tortoise media organisation

Newspaper’s owner, the Scott Trust, ​t​o sign ​contract in coming days, despite strike by Guardian and Observer journalists

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2024

Guardian urged to ‘press pause’ on Observer sale as more strikes planned

Staff are planning two days of action next week over the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2024

Guardian journalists launch 48-hour strike in protest at planned sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media

NUJ members at the Guardian and Observer are walking out for the first time in more than 50 years

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2024

Journalists strike over proposed sale of Observer to Tortoise Media

Forty-eight-hour strike, first at Guardian in more than 50 years, to take place on Wednesday and Thursday

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2024

Four senior female BBC journalists file appeal after equal pay claim denied

In May, employment tribunal judge Sarah Goodman concluded that the women could not bring new equal pay claims.

Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2024

Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer

Union says sale of Sunday paper to Tortoise would be a ‘betrayal of the Scott Trust’s commitment to the Observer’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2024

Media Watch: Ofcom angers devolved nations and uproar over BBC cuts

THE eagle-eye of Media Watch has fallen squarely upon on Ofcom over the past week after it confirmed plans to allow Channel 4 to spend a…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 21, 2024