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News | Friday, 24 May 2013
Freelance journalist wins libel payout from Reluctant Fundamentalist actor Riz Ahmed over 'bigot' tweet
Actor Riz Ahmed has apologised and paid damages to a freelance journalist he accused of being a “bigot” and falsely claimed had punched...
News | Friday, 24 May 2013
Journalism Weekly – Telegraph figures show ‘no downside’ to metered paywall
1 Telegraph figures show ‘no downside’ to metered paywall
The first website figures for the Telegraph since it went behind a...
News | Friday, 24 May 2013
Sally Bercow agrees to pay damages to Lord McAlpine as High Court rules tweet was defamatory
The High Court has ruled that Sally Bercow did libel Lord McAlpine via Twitter and she has agreed to pay him damages.
Her posting appeared two days...
News | Friday, 24 May 2013
Sun and ITV defend 'public interest' in showing Woolwich terror video Sky judged too 'distressing'
News organisations have defended their decisions to broadcast controversial video footage shot in the immediate aftermath of the Woolwich terror...
News | Friday, 24 May 2013
High Court set to rule on Bercow's 'innocent face' McAlpine tweet
The High Court decides today whether a tweet by Commons Speaker's wife Sally Bercow about Tory peer Lord McAlpine was libellous.
The...
News | Thursday, 23 May 2013
Telegraph cements place as only profitable mainstream 'quality' national with £58.4m surplus for 2012
Telegraph Media Group has claimed a slight improvement in operating profit for 2012 despite a marginal fall in turnover.
The publisher of the...
News | Thursday, 23 May 2013
The child sex abuse story which the BBC DID run and why it beat ITV to the Bafta
One of the big surprises at last week’s Bafta Awards was that Mark Williams-Thomas did not win the current affairs category for his ITV...
News | Thursday, 23 May 2013
Telegraph website traffic continues to grow despite launch of metered paywall
The adoption of a metered paywall by Telegraph Media Group does not appear to have had any major effect on the site's overall traffic.
The...
News | Thursday, 23 May 2013
Guidelines on police friendships with journalists a 'top-down, paranoid, defensive over-reaction'
A leading national press crime reporter has attacked 'paranoid' new police guidelines recommending that officers declare personal...
News | Thursday, 23 May 2013
Ian Edmondson stands down as Loaded editor and Jamie Wallis takes over
Axed News of the World assistant editor Ian Edmondson has stood down as editor of lads’ magazine Loaded a year after his appointment.
Former...
News | Thursday, 23 May 2013
Daily Mail publisher says digital advertising growth is now cancelling out print ads decline
Mail Online has reported revenue for the first half of this year (to the end of March) up 61 per cent to £20m.
But despite the huge revenue...
News | Thursday, 23 May 2013
BBC's £50 pay deal hike unlikely to appease unions as strike vote looms
The BBC has increased its pay offer to its lowest-earning staff but the improved deal looks unlikely to prevent industrial action.
The corporation...
News | Thursday, 23 May 2013
Archant to restructure East London newsroom with one editor set to go
Archant has announced a “major restructure” of its East London, Essex and Kent newspapers, which will consolidate coverage into two...
News | Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Saudi cleric sues Guardian over claims he is an 'extremist' sympathetic to Al Qaeda
A Saudi cleric is suing The Guardian for unlimited damages claiming the paper has wrongly suggested he is an “extremist” sympathetic to...
News | Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Auto Trader’s move to digital-only could provide blueprint for other titles
At the height of its powers, Auto Trader magazine had a circulation of almost 400,000 and was sold in 15,000 shops across the country. In the 1980s...
News | Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Spiked Newsnight Savile story is joint winner of London Press Club scoop prize
BBC Newsnight's spiked Jimmy Savile child abuse story was today named joint winner of the scoop of the year at the London Press Club.
Liz...
News | Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Full House closes with loss of 20 jobs as women's weekly market continues to suffer
The women’s weekly market has suffered another blow with the closure of Full House after eight years.
The real life magazine’s last...
News | Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Court lifts anonymity order on Worcester triple-child killer following media pressure
An order granting anonymity to a killer who committed "exceptionally horrific crimes" was overturned by the High Court today.
The murderer...
News | Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Local World chief clarifies Montgomery's 'human interface' comment: 'We are not doing away with journalists'
Local World chief executive Steve Auckland has spoken to Press Gazette expanding on comments made by his colleague David Montgomery to MPs yesterday...
