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.
National Union of Journalists members at the Manchester Evening News plan to strike for two days – starting on October 31 – in protest at management plans to change working patterns and practices. As reported by HoldtheFrontPage last month, the
The Northern Echo has made national headlines after commissioning a key poll in the run-up to the North-East’s historic referendum on a regional assembly. The Mori poll in the North-East’s biggest-selling regional morning paper revealed that the “No” campaign is
Northcliffe Newspaper’s Ken Thompson is to chair this year’s Newspaper Society Employment Law Seminar. The group personnel resources director will lead discussions on hot topics such as developments in discrimination and unfair dismissal laws. A number of employment law experts
Edinburgh-based writer Eoin Hennigan has scooped the top prize in our competition to publish a book with www.writersworld.co.uk. He got all four answers in our recent quiz correct – and is now looking forward to getting his work published as
Former Stroud journalist Jack Sollars has died. He was 93. Jack began his career in journalism as an office boy at a weekly newspaper in Stroud. He became a reporter on the paper before moving to the Western Morning News
Archant London’s new head office has been opened with a celebration champagne reception. Chief executive John Fry cut the ribbon on the state-of-the-art headquarters, called Media House. The new venue replaces the old Recorder House building which was the home
Plymouth Evening Herald editor Alan Qualtrough has returned home in “good shape” after conquering Mount Kilimanjaro for the second time. He completed the 20,000ft climb to reach Stella Point, the crater rim, in six days – and was even able
A new “bigger and brighter” Advertiser has hit the streets of Suffolk. The six-edition weekly newspaper from publisher Archant has been relaunched to be more in line with consumer demands for more localised news and business content. The original Ipswich,
The death of a journalist who fell from a bridge in Newcastle remains a mystery. An inquest recorded an open verdict on Herald & Post chief reporter and Sunday Sun writer Roger Woodcock. Witnesses told how there was no reason
Reports on the Shropshire Star’s 40th anniversary prompted one reader to get in touch with his memories of the paper’s sponsorship of an attempt to cross the Atlantic by rubber dinghy in the 1960s. Former council worker Ken Harris was
The public perception of journalists and the media is to be examined at a free event orgainsed by the National Union of Journalists and media ethics group MediaWise. The NUJ Ethics Council Conference Journalism and Public Trust will look at
Eastern Daily Press photographer Simon Finlay will soon be heading to the USA after scooping first prize in a competition run by parent company Archant.More than 250 staff entered the quiz to mark the launch of the group’s intranet, and
Danny Cammiade has been appointed as the Newspaper Society’s new marketing committee chairman. Director of operations for Johnston Press, he is a long-serving member of the committee, which deals the society’s communications work in advertising, newspaper sales, readership, events and
One of the Kent Messenger Group’s longest-serving journalists is to retire next month, after 34 years with the company. Brian Lewis, currently editor of the Kentish Express and the East Kent Mercury, will step down on November 12 – just
Former Gloucestershire Echo news editor Owen Jones is to return to the UK after a two-year adventure in Papua New Guinea, which saw him working as a volunteer for international development charity VSO. Since leaving the Echo in October 2002
The editor of The Argus in Brighton has quit his post. Simon Bradshaw had been in the job for six years and was editor-in-chief of Newsquest Sussex. Managing director Martyn Willis said in a memo to staff: “I would like