• 'The Racing Paper' Launches To Coincide With The Grand National
    The publishers of The Football Paper are launching a new weekly, "The Racing Paper," on Saturday to coincide with the running of The Grand National, "Press Gazette" reveals.
  • Radio 1 Breakfast Show Cut Back To Four Days
    The BBC has announced a major shakeup to its flagship morning programme, hosted by well-known presenter Nick Grimshaw. The show is being cut to four days a week with a Friday show to be given to a different presenting team. Grimshaw's breakfast show had previously suffered and audience slump -- but, "The Guardian" points out, listening figures are now on the rise.
  • Waitrose Bans Disposable Coffee Cups, Iceland Ditches Palm Oil
    It's a good day for environment campaigners as Sky News announces that Waitrose will stop handing out disposable cups for coffees, and in a separate story here, that the Iceland supermarket chain hasbanned palm oil from all its own brand products.
  • Ofcom Agrees Radio 4 Should Have Challenged Lord Lawson On Climate Change
    Ofcom has upheld complaints about a Radio 4 interview with climate change sceptic, Lord Nigel Lawson, last summer. "Press Gazette" reveals the media watchdog agreed with the complainants that statements made by the former Chancellor, suggesting global temperatures had dropped and weather systems had not changed, should have been challenged on air but were not.
  • London Wireless Charger Company Wins HP Investment
    London-based startup, Chargifi, can now name HP among its investors, according to "The Telegraph." The company is aiming to roll out wireless charging points so cafes and restaurants can entice customers to buy a coffee while their phone gets charged. To date, the company claims to have raised GBP5m.
  • CA Says They Are But One Of Many Firms Using Facebook Data
    Cambridge Analytica has released a statement ahead of Zuckerberg's trip to Congress that says it is just one of a huge number of companies that have used third-party profile data gleaned from Facebook, "The Telegraph" reports.
  • Facebook Bans Controversial Vote Leave Partner, Aggregate IQ
    It's not just Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has suspended Aggregate IQ (AIQ), the Canadian company that worked with the Vote Leave campaign in the EU referendum. Netimperative reports the company being connected to CA in any way and that it ever improperly accessed any Facebook data.
  • Is Spotify About To Take On Alexa?
    "The Telegraph" believes it has the scoop today on what a future voice-activated speaker from Spotify will look like. It got a picture from images that featured in an upcoming advert which has since been removed from the internet. The paper points out the company has also recently mentioned producing music hardware in job ads.
  • Unilever Trials Charity Donations In Return For Video Ad Attention
    Unilever's food brand, Knorr, is trialling a new video ad format that gives a donation to charity if someone watches for at least 15 seconds, "The Drum" reports.
  • Sorrell Probe Could Report Back To WPP Board Next Week
    "Campaign" is reporting that the investigation team at WPP probing accusations against Sir Martin Sorrell could report as early as next week.
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