A court has now vacated a temporary injunction in Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity, siding with Perplexity. It said the AI company did not use a tool to access Amazon's computers but its users themselves were doing so with the help of Perplexity's AI agent pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/us...

US publishers back Amazon in AI agent access dispute with Perplexity

US news publishers have backed Amazon in its lawsuit against Perplexity, saying unauthorised AI agent access to content should be blocked.

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Editor-in-chief of Computer Weekly Bryan Glick, who exposed Post Office IT scandal, has shared his insights on the industry and warned Google is "killing quality journalism" pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders...

What I've learned... with Tech editor Bryan Glick who exposed Post Office IT scandal

Bryan Glick, editor of Computer Weekly, shares his insights from 27-year career in journalism and warns of Google impact.

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Tips on live blogging for publishers: The Guardian's Andrew Sparrow shares why outlets should focus on “intensely newsy” topics and write with personality The Guardian gets 15% of its total page views from live blogs pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Live blogging mastery: Tips for publishers from Guardian's Andrew Sparrow

Publishers looking to succeed in live blogging need to focus on "intensely newsy" topics, said The Guardian's political correspondent.

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The Met Police spent four months investigating an allegation of harassment against a Times Higher Education (THE) journalist who emailed a Cambridge professor with questions about his academic record www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

In a guest essay for the New York Times, Paramount CEO David Ellison says CNN is at the root of opposition to the company’s merger with Warner Bros Discovery “There has been speculation about my politics, my loyalties, my intentions” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Business Insider interim CEO Christian Baesler is staying on permanently. He sees "significant near-term opportunities" in the brand's social and newsletter reach while becoming "essential for a number of professional niches" via original reporting/events www.businessinsider.com/christian-ba...

Christian Baesler becomes CEO of Business Insider

Christian Baesler becomes CEO of Business Insider

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Channel 4 News has appointed The News Agents executive producer Louis Degenhardt in the newly-created role of head of platforms to make sure its journalism "is seen, heard, makes sense and makes an impact wherever audiences get their news" www.channel4.com/news/channel...

The prisoner’s dilemma: Why UK publishers are signing Google AI deals Is short-term revenue and traffic being prioritised over long-term health of news industry? pressgazette.co.uk/news/google-...

The prisoner's dilemma: Why UK publishers are signing Google AI deals

Google AI deals being offered to UK offer short-term cash and some traffic but are they being struck at the expense of the news industry future?

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Runners can take on the London Marathon for the NCTJ next year after it secured a charity place for the first time. The NCTJ is looking for someone connected with journalism who will raise at least £2,500 to support its training and development work www.nctj.com/news/nctj-se...

NCTJ seeks first London Marathon charity runner for 2027

The NCTJ is looking for a runner to take on the 2027 TCS London Marathon after securing its first charity place in the event. Applications are now open for someone to represent the charity and raise…

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Belfast News Letter editor Ben Lowry has been made redundant Parent company Iconic Media is planning to create a role of group editorial director for Northern Ireland pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

Belfast News Letter editor Ben Lowry made redundant

The editor of the Belfast News Letter Ben Lowry has been made redundant after Iconic Media decided to replace the role with a wider leader.

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Tennessee-based Chattanooga Times Free Press has laid off 50 staff including editors and reporters after the paper was sold to media executive Craig Fuller and his father Max Fuller for an undisclosed sum pressgazette.co.uk/news/journal...

Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from Chattanooga Times Free Press, Buzzfeed and National Geographic

Press Gazette will update this page throughout 2026 with any journalism job cuts and redundancies announced in the UK or US.

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People Inc has reported its eleventh consecutive quarter of digital growth (up by 6%) driven by revenue not based on web sessions including licensing and performance marketing. The Daily Beast grew revenue by 53% in Q2 ir.people-incorporated.com/static-files...

The Guardian has launched a free weekly newsletter in India called This is India, focused on “the stories, ideas and news makers of modern India” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Sign up for This Is India: our free weekly newsletter on life in the subcontinent

Niha Masih’s weekly newsletter about the stories, ideas and news makers of modern India

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BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Tony Livesey has left the broadcaster after being absent from his usual late-night slot for almost a month An investigation from Panorama and The Times cast light over his previous career as editor-in-chief of Sport Newspapers pressgazette.co.uk/news/tony-li...

Tony Livesey leaves 5 Live following allegations against former Daily Star boss David Sullivan

5 Live presenter Tony Livesey was off air as the BBC aired sexual misconduct allegations his former boss David Sullivan.

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Rod Liddle, columnist for The Sun, Sunday Times and The Spectator, and presenter on Times Radio, has died aged 66 after a short illness News UK CEO Rebekah Brooks said: "Rod was an inimitable journalistic force – brilliant, provocative and immensely talented..." pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/sun...

'Funny and excoriating' Sun columnist and broadcaster Rod Liddle dies aged 66

Rod Liddle, columnist for The Sun and The Sunday Times and former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today, has died aged 66 after a short illness.

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A judge has found it plausible that Perplexity conspired to bypass access controls and obtain Reddit’s material using third-party data scrapers, rejecting a motion to dismiss the case pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ne...

Who's suing AI and who's signing: Perplexity's motion to dismiss vs Reddit rejected, News Corp sues Brave

News AI deals revealed: Which publishers are suing and which are signing deal with the tech giants over generative AI.

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Piers Morgan has revealed his recent Uncensored fundraising round valued the business at about $145m (£108m) www.ft.com/content/f248...

The Journalists' Charity has revealed the launch of the Queen Camilla Future of Journalism Awards which will grant up to £2,500 each to 25 winners every year aged 18 to 30 to boost their career development journalistscharity.org.uk/awards/

The Trump administration reportedly served a grand jury subpoena on a freelance reporter for the New York Times in February in connection with reporting on a failed secret mission in North Korea www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources

A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.

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The Australian govt has tweaked how its planned News Bargaining Incentive levy will apply to tech giants. The levy is being increased from 2.25% to 2.5% but is now only on their digital ad revenues in Australia, not their overall Australian revenue pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/au...

Australia to tax Meta if it doesn't pay news publishers

Australia proposes levy on Google and Meta to pay for news designed to incentivise them to do commercial deals with publishers.

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The Foresight News diary on Press Gazette is taking a summer break, so this week we’re highlighting the key events over the next five weeks Foresight Summer news diary 3 August – 6 September: Edinburgh Fringe, Burnham ‘listening tour’, Clacton by-election pressgazette.co.uk/news/summer-...

Summer news diary 3 August - 6 September: Edinburgh Fringe, Burnham 'listening tour', Clacton by-election

A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda this summer, from the team at Foresight News.

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The 103-year-old news magazine Time is collaborating with social media creators “as if they were columnists” as part of its push into online video. Its video views on Youtube grew by 773% in Q2, while Linkedin video views were up 756% in the first half of the year pressgazette.co.uk/north-americ...

Creator-style content helps Time deliver seven-fold increase in Youtube views

The 103-year-old news magazine Time is collaborating with creators "as if they were columnists" to boost trust and engagement.

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What I’ve learned: Newsguard co-founder Steven Brill on the fight for truth "I actually believe that there is such a thing as truth. There is such thing as facts. What journalists do is they separate opinions from facts."

What I've learned: Newsguard co-founder Steven Brill on the fight for truth

Brill shares insights from his near 50-year career in media.

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Daily Mail columnist and consulting editor Andrew Pierce has left the newspaper title after 17 years pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

Andrew Pierce departs Daily Mail after 17 years

Daily Mail columnist and consulting editor Andrew Pierce has left the newspaper title after 17 years.

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Google adds Top Stories links to many news-related AI summaries - almost a fifth of Top Stories on news in the UK are now more prominent in AI Overviews pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...

Google adds Top Stories links to many news-related AI summaries

Google has started to show Top Stories boxes within AI Overviews, giving publishers more prominence in up to one-fifth of news searches.

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Judge to give a decision on the size of an initial payment Prince Harry and fellow privacy claimants should give the Daily Mail publisher, and how costs will be assessed, next month. He described the costs as "unprecedented" for a High Court media law case pressgazette.co.uk/news/mail-se...

Mail spent £35m fighting Harry's 'campaign for Leveson 2' privacy claim

Claim was launched with 'blaze of publicity' and 'monstrous all-out attack' on Mail.

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Independent publishers in Scotland are urging the Scottish Government to establish a dedicated Local News Fund, following the UK Government’s £12m Local News Fund launch that excludes Scottish outlets in its first year www.journalism.co.uk/scottish-pub...

Scottish publishers urge government to create their own Local News Fund

Independent news outlets warn Scotland could fall behind as UK and Wales invest in local journalism support without them

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Why has reporting on the murder of Ann Widdecombe murder pushed legal boundaries? Press Gazette asked media law experts to explain why publishers pushed limits with the coverage of this case and why they are unlikely to face civil action pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/an...

Why reporting of Ann Widdecombe killing pushed legal boundaries

Online speculation and potential privacy breaches following Ann Widdecombe’s murder have fuelled concerns on the quality of court reporting.

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Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson has received an apology and “substantial damages” from the police and crime commissioner for Essex after a High Court judge found statements made about her could be defamatory pressgazette.co.uk/news/police-...

Police and crime commissioner to pay Allison Pearson 'substantial damages'

Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson has received an apology and “substantial damages” from the police and crime commissioner for Essex.

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One year in, former Washington Post video producer Dave Jorgenson's Local News International media company is profitable, has tripled its newsletter subscribers and grown by more than ten times across Youtube and Tiktok, according to The Publish Press news.thepublishpress.com/p/creators-t...

Creators Take Over ‘The Odyssey’ Press Tour 🛡️

The summer blockbuster makes creators its main press stop

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