December saw the daily national newspaper market fall by 3% period on period and by 4.7% overall on the same period last year.

David Montgomery’s European newspaper group is to introduce paywalls around specific online content.

ITV1’s coverage of the Live FA Cup match between Liverpool and Reading scored a high of more than 6.1 million peak viewers last night.

The BBC’s iPlayer service received a record number of catch-up requests in December due to the popularity of shows such as Top Gear.

The Policy Exchange, a key rightwing thinktank, has called for the BBC Trust to be abolished and for Channel 4 to be privatised.

Trinity Mirror has had its bid for the Scottish regional news consortium rejected.

The BBC is set to make its VoD iPlayer service available on Freesat HD digital boxes and HD TVs.

BBC One’s popular Survivors series returned to its peak-hour slot with a high of more than 4.8 million viewers last night.

BBC One’s popular Hustle series claimed the top spot during the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak-hour last night despite competition from ITV1’s new Law & Order: UK series.

Alcohol brands have been encouraged to help clamp-down on binge-drinking if they want to avoid a total ban on drink ads.