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The Wire

Rolling news updates including links to the best journalism news and comment from around the web

Daily Mail: New police media guidelines put journalists and criminals in 'same bracket'
21 MAY 2013
Independent advertises 11-week unpaid work placement
21 MAY 2013

Editor's blog

Insight and analysis from Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford

Report which reveals the enormous reach of BBC News online may alarm regional publishers
21 MAY 2013
Video: Why shorthand is as essential for journalists now as it ever was
20 MAY 2013

Cleland Thom

Legal insight for journalists from one of the UK's leading legal trainers

Have you been sued? Survey gathers info on legal claims against journalists which don't reach court
14 MAY 2013
Keep the bubbly on ice, Defamation Act won't come into to force for all stories until late 2014
2 MAY 2013

Axegrinder

Gossip, scandal and fun - the blog which hoists journalists by their own petard

Polis email hacker invites Melanie Phillips to conference in Cuba dedicated to memory of Hugo Chavez
20 MAY 2013
Axegrinder: £50 for a story and pic in the print edition of The Times...Twitter UK boss ducks libel questions...Daily Mail sees no bullying at BBC
17 MAY 2013

The Newslist

An essential weekly guide to the big stories of the next seven days provided by Foresight News

The week ahead: Tony Hall takes over at BBC, Carlos Tevez due in court, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit Scotland
2 APRIL 2013
The week ahead: 11-17 March
11 MARCH 2013

Jon Bernstein

Insight and analysis on the latest developments in digital journalism

 

So who in news knows how to use Tumblr?
20 MAY 2013
Mail Online reveals the sites it's chasing in the United States
15 MAY 2013

Guest blog

Comment and insight on journalism issues from Press Gazette's guest writers

West Highland Free Press makes case for employee ownership as path to salvation for local newspapers
9 MAY 2013
Veteran war reporter Robert Fox: 'There is nothing to substitute for eye contact in journalism'
30 APRIL 2013

Job Spy

Press Gazette has found 10 new journalism jobs today including The Guardian and ITV News
20 MAY 2013
Press Gazette has found 11 new journalism jobs today including BSkyB, Red Magazine and FT
17 MAY 2013

Grey Cardigan

Notes from down table

Exposure to the non-editorial workforce makes Christmas even worse
21 DECEMBER 2012
The PRs who try to buy off journalists with trinkets
5 DECEMBER 2012

Mick Hume

Editor at large of Spiked and author of There's No Such Thing As a Free Press

Hacked Off has won because the principle of press freedom is out of fashion, particularly in high places
15 APRIL 2013
Mick Hume: Royal Charter press regulation plan is a right royal disgrace to democracy
25 FEBRUARY 2013

Abbott Katz

Abbott Katz details spreadsheet techniques for prospecting the stories beneath the rows and columns.

Adventures in spreadsheet journalism lesson five: More fun with conditional formatting
17 APRIL 2013
Adventures in Spreadsheet Journalism lesson four: Conditional formatting
1 MARCH 2013

SubScribe by Gameoldgirl

Notes on the best and worst of British journalism

Alex Ferguson's press beatification was daft and over the top
13 MAY 2013
Coverage of the Boston bombings underlines an uncomfortable equation about newsworthiness
17 APRIL 2013