Daily Press Summary | Tuesday 12th December 2017

British Journalism Awards 2017: Nick Ferrari is journalist of the year
LBC presenter Nick Ferrari has become the first radio industry winner of the Journalist of the Year prize at the British Journalism Awards.
Press Gazette

Prosecute web giants for abuse, May urged
Social media companies should face fines or prosecution for failing to remove racist, extremist or child sex abuse content, an influential committee will tell the government tomorrow.
The Times (£)

New Radio Case Study Tool
Radiocentre has re-launched its Case Study Database Tool, allowing advertisers, agencies and radio stations to search 90 case study examples of best practice radio campaigns.
Radiocentre.org

Ofcom lets talkSPORT keep national licence
Ofcom has concluded that nobody would be interested in talkSPORT’s national AM licence so has renewed it for five years for an annual payment of £10,000.
Radio Today

Game that tune: Apple snaps up Shazam for reported $400m
Price tag would be less than half the $1bn music identifying app was last valued at when it tapped investors in 2015.
The Guardian

BBC adds Alexa voice skills for all stations and podcasts
The BBC has rolled out its first full voice app, creating Amazon Alexa skills for all of its radio stations and podcasts. The skills include controls such as play, pause, and resume.
Rain News

The lessons for the biz from Ed Sheeran’s latest No.1
The year may be nearly over, but there’s still time for Ed Sheeran’s all-conquering ÷ campaign to set one more landmark.
Music Week

What radio station are you?
One of life’s biggest questions is what radio station your personality is truly aligned with, well we now have the answer – sort of.
Play here