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Welcome to our main news index. Here you will find all the news stories that have appeared on the site since our launch in February 2000.

If you want to look up a story from a certain month you can use our Journalism News Archive which lists stories by date and also according to which channel or category they appeared in (eg law, campaigns, awards.)

If you are looking for a story about a particular newspaper or media company, you can use the links in the ‘Main News Links’ list to the right to take you to our directory pages. Here you will find indexes of all the stories we have written about each of the newspapers and media companies featured on the site.

Cancer claims life of ex-editor and lobby correspondent

Former newspaper editor and parliamentary reporter Andrew Buchan has died after a four-year battle with cancer. He was 72. During a journalism career spanning more than four decades, Andrew became a well known face in the corridors of Westminster and

Forth Independent buys East Kilbride Mail

Forth Independent Newspapers Ltd, publishers of the Wee County News, has bought the East Kilbride Mail for an undisclosed sum. The free weekly was launched a year ago by businessmen Steve McLaughlin, former circulation director of the Daily Record, and

Herald deputy set to join former boss in Australia

Sunday Herald deputy editor David Dick is leaving the paper to start a new life in Australia, working for his former boss, Andrew Jaspan. David, (34), has accepted a job as executive editor at the Melbourne Age after being approached

When three minutes seems the longest time…

Being single in Leamington, reasonably professional, moderately independent and adequately articulate, speed-dating seemed a perfectly acceptable option on Valentine’s Day. With depressing predictability, none of my friends believed my reason for going was work-related (this article), opting instead to declare

Tributes paid to former editor

Harold Hardcastle, former editor of the Pateley Bridge and Nidderdale Herald, has died aged 76. Known to friends and colleagues as Harry, he had worked as a reporter for the Herald for 24 years, having started at Ackrill Newspapers’ Ripon

Suffering in silence

When Sutton Guardian reporter Richard Lyons was asked if he would like to experience being deaf for the day, he was quick to accept. But what would it be like to lose one of your senses, if only for a

Blessing for newspaper headquarters

The patron saint of journalists St Francis of Sales was called upon to help with a blessing of Archant London’s new headquarters. Father Jeffrey Woolnough, a priest from a church in Ilford neighbouring the office, known as Media House, approached

Press praised as investigation helps close brothel

The Evening Press in York has won praise for its investigation which led to the closure of a brothel and the jailing of the owner. Hao Wang operated Oriental Rose in a quiet residential street in Clifton Moor, a York

Bid to win press card acceptance from police

The National Union of Journalists has launched a new drive to win acceptance of its press card by police forces around the country. A publicity campaign will see posters distributed to police stations with the backing of the Association of

Editor volunteers to abseil from hospital roof

A regional newspaper editor is to take part in a daring charity event which will see him launch himself from the top of an eight-storey building. Western Gazette editor Martin Heal has volunteered to abseil down the side of Yeovil

Ten Years Younger – the inside story

Bedfordshire On Sunday deputy editor Liz O’Reilly got her 15 minutes of fame – and a bit more – last week when she appeared on Channel 4’s Ten Years Younger, in which a team of experts attempt to take years

15,000 e-mails clog journo's inbox as 'jump' joke falls flat

An outspoken journalist has found himself on the receiving end of the wrath of Fathers 4 Justice after calling for the pressure group to end their “tedious publicity stunts”. Sunday Sun assistant editor and columnist Ken Oxley included a light-hearted

Bid to improve readers' right of reply

An MP is launching a private member’s bill to tighten the responsibility of newspapers when people complain. Labour’s Peter Bradley wants to prevent people from being misrepresented in the press and help improve standards of journalism. His Right of Reply