A freelance photographer is running a project whereby journalists and freedom of speech campaigners can pose with their perfect newspaper front page.

Called ‘Dream Headline’, James Young has already persuaded Milton Keynes Citizen journalist Sally Murrer to be snapped with a copy of The Daily Tomorrow.

Sally was cleared of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office 12 months ago after it was alleged a police officer had leaked confidential information to her.

The photos will be on show in a special exhibition next year.

A new free newspaper comprising content sourced solely from blogs has hit the streets of London.

The first issue of ‘theblogpaper’ has been published and distributed from four central London Tube stations and one in the east of the capital.

It has no editor and all its content is determined by a vote on theblogpaper.co.uk.

A meningitis victim from County Durham has been fitted with artificial legs following a campaign supported by Darlington-based title The Northern Echo.

In September, we reported how the daily was helping to raise £10,000 for a promising young swimmer who need two need prosthetic legs.

Editor Peter Barron blogs that a reporter and photographer flew to Bournemouth with 14-year-old Lyndon Longhorne to witness the joyous moment he received his new artificial limbs.

The campaign is not over though as fundraisers are now aiming to collect enough money to buy him a prosthetic arm.

Veteran former Washington Post war reporter Christopher Dickey dropped in on the University of Sheffield after being award a visiting professorship by its journalism department.

He spoke of the big stories he covered including the time he became the first journalist to announce the death of Princess Diana to CNN during a press conference in Paris.

BBC Radio Scotland news producer Peter Murray has been elected the new president of the National Union of Journalists.

He was chosen by delegates at the NUJ’s annual delegate meeting in Southport.