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.
The Hebridean newspaper, which recently stopped production after just nine months in operation, has been bought by its former rival, the Stornoway Gazette. The deal follows the closure of The Hebridean earlier this month, resulting in the loss of four
Two Romford Recorder staff have been rewarded for their loyalty and long service after each clocking up 25 years’ service with parent-company Archant. Editor Mark Sweetingham and assistant editor Kevin English were each presented with a cheque for £500 in
Education secretary Charles Clarke has helped launch an online service at the Eastern Daily Press which will help youngsters to pick their future career.The EDP24 website “So you want to be…”, has information on a wide range of careers. Dundee
An exclusive poll from The Journal has shown the north-east’s lack of interest in changes to local politics. Most people questioned in a poll commissioned by the paper do not know that a vote is to be held on whether
The country’s first ‘penny’ title, the Evening Advertiser in Swindon, is about to celebrate its 150th anniversary. When it was founded in 1854 as Britain’s first penny newspaper, it had just one employee – editor and proprietor William Morris –
When the Birmingham Evening Mail’s Guy Newey was asked to look into the high demand for driving instructors he decided to get a real insight – by retaking his driving test. A surge in hopeful drivers taking their test has
Staff at the Kent Messenger Group welcomed a royal visitor this week when Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, paid a visit to the company’s headquarters. The Prince was welcomed by KMG chairman Edwin Boorman, and during his two-hour visit
Darlington Football Club’s fight for survival has been given an important boost thanks to a fund-raising initiative by The Northern Echo. The Newsquest title has raised nearly £25,000 in only a week after appealing to local businesses, organisations and individuals
Queen of the jungle Kerry McFadden should be welcomed home with civic reception in her honour, says the Warrington Guardian. Hot on the heels of its Vote Kerry campaign, her home town newspaper is urging local council chiefs to roll
Community groups in areas served by Newsquest titles will share in a near $1m cash bonanza this year. A total of $970,000 is available to worthy causes in the UK from the Gannett Foundation, sponsored entirely by Newsquest’s American parent
The offices of the Hampshire Chronicle have provided some spooky goings on for a team of television ghost hunters. The group from the ‘Phantom or Fraud’ project spent the night in the listed building in Winchester High Street and came
Star players at Middlesbrough Football Club have congratulated a team of local youngsters trying their hand first time at journalism. And the youngsters were treated to a special reception to celebrate ending their weeks of work to produce a new
Staff at regional news publisher Archant raised £10,075 for charity in the last six months of 2003 – and the company Gold scheme has matched every penny of it. Added to the £13,200 it awarded during the first six months
Journalists represented by the National Union of Journalists at Newsquest Bradford, which publishes the Telegraph & Argus, Craven Herald, Keighley News, Ilkley Gazette and Wharfedale Observer, have voted to accept a two-year-pay deal.Most will receive a 2.65 per cent deal
A newspaper set up to serve the Western Isles of Scotland has closed after just nine months. A lack of advertising support and no assistance from public enterprise agencies, which could have helped the start-up, were blamed for the demise
Staff at the Coalville Times have welcomed a new editor, with the appointment of Robert Tollman. Previously editor of the Trinity Mirror-owned Gwent Gazette, Robert succeeds Malcolm Harrison, who is now working for the Leicester Mercury. Originally from a small