Leading sport journalists cut at Mail on Sunday | BBC News woos advertisers
And why Sky news chief says era of 'shouty' newsroom leaders is over
Good morning and welcome to your daily media news briefing on Tuesday 10 October.
Big hitters in the Mail on Sunday sports department are heading for the exit in the latest round of cutbacks at the Mail titles, Press Gazette exclusively reveals.
Sports editor Mike Richards, chief football writer Rob Draper and chief sports news correspondent Nick Harris have all been ear-marked for redundancy as DMG Media looks to further merge the daily, Sunday and online editions.
Draper is the current holder of three major sports journalism awards and the investigative work of Harris has featured regularly in British Journalism Awards shortlists.
Newsrooms can be tough places, but Sky News chief Jonathan Levy has said the time for "shouty, emotionally unintelligent" newsroom leadership is over. He has spoken about his own mental health challenges and explained why newsroom managers need to be more sensitive to staff struggling in this department.
The BBC seems to do almost everything in the media space. But if you thought the one thing it can't do is sell advertising, think again.
Via BBC Studios it markets to the non-UK website and news channel audience and news chief executive Deborah Turness has been telling advertisers why the BBC is such a great place to sell stuff.
That commercial revenue is needed to offset declining licence fee income. But advertising overtures from the news division will not please commercial UK news brands trying to make money from their international audiences.
New from Press Gazette
Big-name sports journalists facing cutbacks at Mail on Sunday
In March, Mail Newspapers editor-in-chief Ted Verity said the daily and Sunday titles were to be brought closer together as part of a drive to focus on the digital operation. These latest changes are understood to be a continuation of that process.
Sky News chief Levy says news leaders must be more sensitive to staff mental health
“Back then there wasn’t the same recognition or support available and in time I recognised it was having an impact on me and worked through it and got beyond it.”
BBC News CEO Turness woos advertisers and promises more investment in Verify
“Essentially, what’s good for audiences is good for business… Every dollar someone spends on the BBC, it works harder for them.”
News in brief
Reach Q3 trading update: Circulation still "resilient and predictable" revenue stream - the only one of the main categories not to decline in the year so far, but grow marginally. Overall group revenue down 7.8% in Q3 year-on-year and 6.6% in the year to date. (Reach)
National World journalists with the NUJ are now planning a five-day strike, following three days of strike action last month, over "pay issues and disparities". The NUJ said this would leave communities with "outdated news" and replicated cross-paper campaigns. (NUJ)
A woman complained to Ofcom about a Channel 4 News report in which she was interviewed about hotels being used to house asylum seekers. She said she was edited to sound racist but the regulator said she was treated fairly, dismissing her complaint. (Ofcom)
The BBC has responded to complaints that Newsnight's coverage of the Laurence Fox row was unbalanced against GB News. The corporation say they "are happy to accept that in this case this item could have worked better if we had managed to find someone to robustly defend the channel". (BBC)
It has emerged that Google-Extended, the platform's way of allowing publishers to tell robots.txt not to use their content for Bard and other AI projects, does not block their work from being used in Google's AI-generated answers in search results pages. (Search Engine Land)
Changes to Elon Musk’s X are making it harder to report on the Israel-Hamas conflict and verify content being shared, Wired reports. "Credible links are now photos. On the ground news outlets struggle to reach audiences without an expensive blue check mark." (Wired)
Podcast 57: What is the Murdoch Factor?
Press Gazette editor-in-chief Dominic Ponsford discusses The Murdoch Factor with Peter Jukes (author of Fall of the House of Murdoch and co-founder of Byline Times).
What is the key quality which has enabled Murdoch’s success and what does the future of media look like without him?
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