Daily Press Summary | Friday 23rd March 2018

IRN Radio News Awards 2018 – all the winners
Sandy Warr took home the IRN Gold Award at the IRN Awards 2018 for her outstanding contribution to commercial radio spanning 30 years.
Radio Today

Advertisers begin a boycott as Facebook gets thumbs down over data breach
Leading brands pulled their advertising from Facebook yesterday as a minister warned that the company could face fines of more than £1 billion if it failed to “play by the rules” with users’ data.
The Times (£)

BBC Radio and Music Awards 2018 – winners
All the winners from last night’s awards, with Nicholas Parsons winning the Gold Award.
Radio Today

Facebook faces £1bn fine under tougher data protection laws, Matt Hancock warns
Facebook could be slapped with a £1bn fine under tougher rules to protect people’s data online, Matt Hancock warned.
iNews

Radio 1’s Greg James: ‘It was like a balloon popping. I was choked up’
The DJ has just finished his epic – snow postponed – Sport Relief challenge and talks about the anguish of not finishing first time around, why radio is like ‘plumbing’ and the joy of paying tax.
The Guardian

Facebook and Google executives clash over ‘fake news’
Facebook and Alphabet are clashing over how to tackle a crisis of confidence in how news flows through their platforms.
Financial Times (£)

US music sales climb for second consecutive year
The trade body of the world’s largest music market extolled a “remarkable re-invention” in how people listen to music, as it revealed that US sales have now climbed for two consecutive years — the first such growth since Napster ravaged the industry in 1999.
Financial Times (£)

Commercial PSBs reject kids’ quotas call
Broadcasters warn Ofcom of threat to ‘creative flexibility’.
Broadcast (£)

Culture secretary hits trouble on own app
The culture secretary has admitted that he changed the policies of his own social network after complaints about its use of data.
The Times (£)

Radiodays special podcast from Vienna
Ed Miliband, Geoff Lloyd, Bob Shennan, Siobhan Kenny, Paul Sylvester and James Cridland join the See Radio Differently Podcast.
Radiocentre.org