Wires and Agencies
Press agency Barcroft Media is suing a former employee alleging that she paid herself more than £92,000 from the company account.
A group of news agencies is set to sue a Croatian website for more than £500,000 for breach of copyright after it allegedly refused to pay for photographs.
Colin Webb, who has died aged 74, was a highly effective editor of the Press Association from 1986 to 1995 and successfully steered the agency through a crucial period in its history.
The organisers of the World Press Photo awards have insisted that the winning picture was not faked.
Bloomberg’s top editor has Matthew Winkler has apologised after reporters for the agency used confidential information belonging to subscribers.
The apology follows a complaint from Goldman Sachs that reporters had kept tabs on its partners by making use of private data found on the Bloomberg newswire terminals.
A team of 12 Press Association journalists are set to work on a new website being developed by British Telecom this summer.
Few journalists if any have done as well out of the boom in celebrity-driven news as former redtop staffers Gary Morgan and Kevin Smith.
ITV News appeared to be the first major national news organisation to reveal Margaret Thatcher’s death to the public after a Press Association newsflash.
News agency Associated Press has changed its stylebook to stop journalists describing people as “illegal immigrants”.
Two international news organisations became the first to set up bureaus in Burma this weekend following a relaxing of restrictions on the media.
Associated Press last month released the Dirty Game Series, a string of in-depth multimedia packages on match-fixing in football.
When it comes to the criminal justice system do red-top journalists have one set of rules when it comes to speaking out about the arrest of Fleet Street colleagues and another set for everyone else?
Associated Press has won its US case against the media monitoring firm Meltwater, after accusing the company of unlawfully using headlines and excerpts without paying for them.
David Hencke saw off competition from major news organisations to win Political Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for fledgling news website exaro. The judges described his revelations over widespread Whitehall tax avoidance as a “major scandal”.
Like many great stories, it started with a whistleblower.
UK-based Thomson Reuters journalist Tom Bergin has told Press Gazette the inside story of his four-month investigation into the tax-avoidance strategies of coffee giant Starbucks.
Liverpool-based news agency boss Chris Johnson has been successful in his bid to win the local TV licence for Liverpool.
Press agencies, freelances and campaigners fear a Government shake-up of copyright law will make newsgathering “less viable”.
Thomson Reuters is to cut 2,500 jobs in according to chief executive Jim Smith, the BBC (and others) report.
The Press Association (PA) is to present a selection of images photographed during the London riots, titled London Riots Revisited.
