Insight and analysis from Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford

By Dominic Ponsford 18 June 9:08
With Google Reader now just two weeks away from being smothered with a virtual pillow by the powers that be at the world's biggest media company, Digg may be coming to the rescue with an alternative.
By Dominic Ponsford 30 May 13:05
If declining print newspapers don’t find better ways to monetise their growing digital audiences they will go out of business, it’s as simple as that.
Graph revealing growth of BBC News online
By Dominic Ponsford 21 May 12:08
The BBC Trust could be heading on a collision course with the regional press after demanding that BBC Online shapes up its act when it comes to local and regional coverage.
By Dominic Ponsford 20 May 10:56
Is shorthand still relevant in the digital age? You bet it is.
By Dominic Ponsford 14 May 9:44
Going digital-only was once seen as a last desperate throw of the dice for a dying print brand. But not any more. (Declaration of interest: Press Gazette went digital-only at the end of last year)
By Dominic Ponsford 01 May 13:06
It’s good news that press owners have belatedly come around to supporting a public consultation on the future of press regulation.
The Dowler family pictured with lawyer Mark Lewis
By Dominic Ponsford 29 April 18:21
Various peace deals have collapsed over the years because of a refusal to compromise and I fear the ongoing tussle over press regulation could go the same way.
By Dominic Ponsford 26 April 11:18
The campaign to save the job of Whitby Gazette editor John Stokoe was probably doomed to failure from the start.
By Dominic Ponsford 22 April 12:29
Government proposals for a statute-backed system of press regulation are in danger of unravelling into a complete mess.
By Dominic Ponsford 18 April 11:17
I've often thought that the national newspaper industry does a terrible job of marketing itself.
By Dominic Ponsford 09 April 9:44
News of Baroness Thatcher's death prompted a huge variety of front pages today - prompting many national newspapers to abandon their usual templates and go for a magazine-style approach.
By Dominic Ponsford 25 March 17:06
Hacked Off’s cross-party deal of Sunday night/Monday morning could have the worst possible consequence for all concerned. It could leave large sections of British journalism without a regulator at all.
By Dominic Ponsford 19 March 14:12
The die is cast and here we stand on the other side of the Rubicon. In an improbable turn of events the legions of the popular press have been overpowered by an ad-hoc campaign group representing the victims of press intrusion.
By Dominic Ponsford 15 March 9:56
While The New York Times has proved that online paywalls can work for big mainstream newspaper websites, Andrew Sullivan’s US political blog The Dish appears to be proving the same for blogs.
By Dominic Ponsford 13 March 14:20
Is a deal on a legislation-backed Royal Charter to regulate the press close to being signed?
By Dominic Ponsford 08 March 15:00
It is far from ideal that the editor of the UK's fifth best-performing fully paid-for weekly local newsaper was told he was at risk of redundancy the day after news came out of a bumper ABC sales result. But giving Johnston Press the benefit of the doubt we can perhaps see it as an oversight from beancounters at head office who hadn't fully thought the proposal through.
By Dominic Ponsford 01 March 16:26
Should we be worried about the fact that at least 55 UK journalists have been arrested over the last two years? Is it down to an over-zealous politically-motivated crackdown by the police - or is it about corrupt journalists getting their just desserts?
By Dominic Ponsford 25 February 11:07
Lord Justice Leveson famously asked who guards the guardians? Following the departure of Press Gazette’s chief reporter/news editor Andrew Pugh to join the newsdesk of This Morning next month, it could be you.
By Dominic Ponsford 11 February 13:11

A year on from the first wave of arrests at The Sun the paper showed that is still not afraid to ruffle the feathers of privacy  lawyers by publishing an old-school kiss and tell on the front page of its Sunday edition.

By Dominic Ponsford 11 February 10:10

Any journalist who has trained in the last 20 years will recall learning about the case of Bill Goodwin – the 23-year-old reporter on The Engineer who courageously risked jail rather than identify the source of a leaked company document.

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