PA Media Archives - Press Gazette https://pressgazette.co.uk/subject/pa-media/ The Future of Media Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:39:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://pressgazette.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/09/cropped-Press-Gazette_favicon-32x32.jpg PA Media Archives - Press Gazette https://pressgazette.co.uk/subject/pa-media/ 32 32 PA Media Group revenue flat in 2025 after a decade of growth https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/pa-media-group-revenue-flat-in-2025-afte-decade-of-growth/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:38:45 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=257436 View of PA Media newsroom where editorial staff, who were warned of proposed cuts on 22 April 2025, work

In 2025 news agency parent group put three-year plan in place with new leadership team.

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]]> PA Media Group has reported stable revenue for 2025, ending its eight consecutive years of growth.

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]]> News agency bosses at Reuters and PA explain differing ‘red line’ on use of AI https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/news-agency-bosses-reuters-and-pa-explain-differing-red-line-on-use-of-ai/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:27:40 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=250436 Alessandra Galloni, editor-in-chief of Reuters, and Jack Lefley, editor-in-chief of PA Media side by side on stage, Galloni is speaking and gesturing and Lefley is listening

Insights shared by Alessandra Gallioni of Reuters, Jack Lefley of PA Media and other senior editors.

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]]> Reuters and PA Media have different “red lines” curbing the extent to which they will use AI for customer-facing content, according to the news agencies’ top editors.

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]]> 1_ly432_17-3-26_Media_Freedom_conference Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni, PA Media editor-in-chief Jack Lefley, ITV News editor Laura Wilshaw and Nottingham Post editor Natalie Fahy with BBC News analysis editor Ros Atkins at the Society of Editors Future of News Conference 2026. Picture: Lucy Young The UK’s biggest news media companies: New top 50 ranking by revenue https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/top-50-uk-news-media-companies-2026-ranking/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:27:53 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=247961 Top four media companies in UK by revenue. RELX Group (picture: Igor Golovniov, Shutterstock), BBC (Chris Dorney, Shutterstock), Informa (Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images), ITV (Piotr Swat, Shutterstock).

Just over half of UK's biggest media companies grew turnover year on year.

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]]> The top three news media companies in the UK by revenue saw turnover increase in their latest full-year accounts, Press Gazette’s latest top 50 ranking shows.

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]]> More than 3,000 journalism job cuts tracked in UK and US in 2025 https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/journalism-job-cuts-2025-tracked/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:22:10 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=235580 Collage of four pictures to represent op four publishers by estimated number of jobs cut in 2025. Screenshot of People Inc website showing many of its top brands including People and Food & Wine, plus outside offices shots of ITV, CNN and ABC all showing their logos on the buildings

Total of around 3,400 reported redundancies was 11% lower than year before.

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]]> More than 3,000 job cuts were recorded in the journalism industry in the UK and US in 2025 according to Press Gazette’s rolling updates.

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]]> PA Media goes ‘video-first’ to meet demand for live and social-ready content https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-services-content/pa-media-goes-video-first-to-meet-demand-for-live-and-social-ready-content/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:28:10 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=246701 PA Media vertical video

News agency launches social media ready vertical video feed.

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]]> PA has adopted a “video-first” approach to its content offering in response to increased demand for live and vertical video content, driven by social media and the agency’s unrivalled access to news, sporting and cultural events.

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]]> PA Media Group continues revenue growth for eighth year in a row https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/pa-media-group-continues-revenue-growth-for-eighth-year-in-a-row/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:16:18 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=244389 New PA Media chief executive Emily Shelley. Picture: PA Media

Accounts for 2024 are first under new CEO Emily Shelley.

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]]> PA Media Group has grown its revenue for the eighth year in a row, once again marking the highest in its 145-year history.

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]]> AI referral traffic ‘not making up for search losses’: How publishers can respond https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/ai-referral-traffic-not-making-up-for-search-losses-how-publishers-can-respond/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:15:36 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=243469 Admiral's Dan Rua, Bauer's Stuart Forrest, DMG Media's Carly Steven and PA Media's Martin Ashplant sit side by side on stage at the Future of Media Technology Conference on 11 September 2025

Bot traffic still increases costs with "no meaningful value exchange".

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]]> Growing referral traffic from AI is nowhere near making up for losses from search since the arrival of Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode, leading publishers have said.

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]]> Slide3 Percentage of total traffic referred from AI sites to websites in Admiral's network. Picture: Admiral, the Visitor Relationship Management Company Slide4 Total AI referral traffic to sites in Admiral's network. Picture: Admiral, the Visitor Relationship Management Company How 20-strong PA Media puzzles team feeds growing publisher demand for brain teasers https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-services-content/pa-media-puzzles-publishers/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:00:28 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=240400 Peter Stirling, PA Media

PA Media Puzzles editor Peter Stirling has been setting brain teasers for 30 years.

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]]> Puzzles have been a staple in newspapers since the first crossword more than 100 years ago and have only grown in popularity in recent years, helping drive engagement and even growth in publishing businesses.

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]]> PA Media journalists back no confidence vote against new editor-in-chief over cuts plan https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/wires_and_agencies/pa-media-cuts-no-confidence-editor/ Thu, 29 May 2025 16:04:31 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=240188 View of PA Media newsroom where editorial staff, who were warned of proposed cuts on 22 April 2025, work

Jack Lefley has led the PA Media newsroom since the start of the year.

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]]> Journalists at PA Media have voted in favour of a motion of no confidence in their editor-in-chief after just five months in the role amid planned newsroom cuts.

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]]> PA Media names Global’s David Henderson as CTO https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/pa-media-group-cto-global-david-henderson/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:50:24 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/?p=239330 Headshot for new PA Media Group CTO David Henderson

David Henderson is currently chief technology and product officer at radio company Global.

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]]> Global chief technology and product officer David Henderson is moving to PA Media Group as chief technology officer (CTO).

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