The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology

Communications and Digital Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 17 Jan 2024 Closed: 25 Apr 2025 Parliament page
News providers are facing a challenging future: new technologies, disruption to business models, declining trust and growing concerns around impartiality present a complex, interrelated and difficult problem. The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee will examine a selection of strategic challenges facing the sector, and identify the actions required … Read more
1 Report
12 Oral sessions
6 Letters
12 Events
Activity timeline 20 events
3 Apr
2025
Correspondence
6 Feb
2025
Correspondence
6 Feb
2025
Correspondence
29 Jan
2025
Report published
16 Dec
2024
Correspondence
25 Nov
2024
Report published
31 Oct
2024
Correspondence
15 Oct
2024
Oral evidence
14 May
2024
Oral evidence
9 May
2024
Correspondence
7 May
2024
Oral evidence
30 Apr
2024
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 12 sessions
15 Oct 2024
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Robert Specterman-Green · Department for Culture, Media and Sport Sam Cannicott · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Stephanie Peacock MP · Department for Culture, Media and Sport The Baroness Jones of Whitchurch · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
14 May 2024
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Cristina Nicolotti Squires · Sky News Dame Melanie Dawes · Ofcom
7 May 2024
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David Hooper Fiona O'Brien · Reporters Without Borders Juliet Oliver · Solicitors Regulation Authority Paul Philip · Solicitors Regulation Authority Sayra Tekin · News Media Association Susan Coughtrie · Foreign Policy Centre
30 Apr 2024
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Professor Jane Singer · City, University of London Rasmus Nielsen · University of Oxford Robert Colvile · Centre for Policy Studies
23 Apr 2024
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Andrew Neil · The Spectator James Harding · Tortoise Media John Quinlan · JOE Media Group Tom Slater · spiked
16 Apr 2024
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Freddie Sayers · UnHerd Katie Harbath · Anchor Change Professor Ciaran Martin CB · Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Professor William H. Dutton · Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
26 Mar 2024
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Angelos Frangopoulos · GB News Limited David Rhodes · Sky News Jonathan Levy · Sky News
19 Mar 2024
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Sam Shetabi · Acast Sebastian Enser-Wight · Global Radio Shini Pattni · Acast Tom Cheal · Global Radio
5 Mar 2024
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Deborah Turness · BBC Guy Davies · Channel 5 Jonathan Munro · BBC Louisa Compton · Channel 4 Michael Jermey · ITV Rhodri Talfan Davies · BBC
27 Feb 2024
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Anna Bateson · Guardian Media Group David Dinsmore · News UK David Higgerson · Reach plc Henry Faure Walker · Newsquest Jonathan Paterson · The News Movement Jon Slade · Financial Times Joshi Herrmann · The Manchester Mill Peter Wright · DMG Media
20 Feb 2024
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Mr Douglas McCabe · Enders Analysis Mr James Frayne · Public First Professor Charlie Beckett · London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
13 Feb 2024
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Fraser Nelson · The Spectator James Bennet · The Economist Josephine Hansom · Savanta Paul Lee · Deloitte
Title HC No. Published Items Response
1st Report - The future of news 25 Nov 2024 0 Responded
Correspondence 6 letters
3 Apr 2025 To committee Response from the BBC to the Committee's report 'The future of news', dated March 2025
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6 Feb 2025 To committee Response from the Competition and Markets Authority to the Committee's report 'The future of news', dated January 2025
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6 Feb 2025 To committee Response from Dame Melanie Dawes, Chief Executive Officer, Ofcom to the Committee's report 'The future of news', dated 27 January 2025
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16 Dec 2024 From committee Letter to the Chair from Katie O'Donovan, Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google dated 20 November 2024
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31 Oct 2024 From committee Letter to the Chair from Matt Rogerson, Director of Global Public Policy & Platform Strategy, Financial Times, dated 18 October 2024
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9 May 2024 To committee Letter from the Chair to Nusrat Ghani MP, Minister for Europe, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, dated 9 May 2024
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