Good afternoon from the team at Press Gazette on Monday, 14 September.

🎺 Behold! Press Gazette is pleased to share the full list of winners from the 2026 Future of Media Awards here.

Announced on Thursday night, directly after our Future of Media Technology Conference, the top winners included The Economist, which won Publisher of the Year, and The Times, which won National/International Website of the Year.

The winners (and finalists) provide a handy guide to the best websites, podcasts, newsletters and examples of innovation in online news media from the UK and around the world over the last year.

We will be sharing reports from the conference over the next week, including Financial Times CEO Jon Slade’s opening fireside chat.

Just to whet your appetite a bit, he revealed that FT Group revenue was up again in 2025 (after a record £540m the previous year) and that so far AI disruption has not disrupted the publisher’s progress. He said he is happy with the mix of revenue and control that the FT’s existing licensing deals with OpenAI and Google provide (and also provided some scary insight into the enormous scale of attempted thefts of FT content by bots posing as real subscribers).

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🎥 The Sun’s publisher News Group Newspapers has yet to reach escape velocity from the pull of declining print revenue (posting a pre-tax loss of £53m in 2024/25).

But editor-in-chief Victoria Newton said the title’s video growth makes her optimistic for the future of journalism as she delivered the annual London lecture named after pioneering Daily Mirror editorial director Hugh Cudlipp.

“We are still at the centre of the national conversation”, she said, adding: “Yes, journalism is changing. But it is certainly not dying…”

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⚖️ And also on Thursday press regulator IPSO published a ruling in which it partially upheld a complaint brought against us by former Conservative councillor Matthew Binley.

We were told to add a correction to our original story here. And while we were not required to publish the full adjudication we have tried to cover the ruling here in the same way we would if it was another publisher.

IPSO said we should have made more effort to contact Binley in advance of publication and should have included his denial of the allegation that he “admitted to having sex with a 14-year-old when in his twenties”.

When you lose you learn and we learned a lot from this process, particularly around the importance of being thorough and dogged when it comes to obtaining right of replies (something which probably stops 99.9% of mistakes before publication).

I found the IPSO process to be fair, thorough and quite a headache to deal with (as it should be).

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