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.)
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A long-serving reporter of the Royston Crow has died, aged 82. Debbie Hawkins, who was a reporter there for ten years and then a district correspondent for a further 20 on her retirement, had suffered from cancer. Editor Les Baker
A plea has gone out for an experienced regional press journalist to speak at a charities’ public relations forum later this year. The event is being run by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, and is aimed at PR professionals
Gareth Dunning is the new news editor at the Warrington Guardian.He has replaced Peter Magill, who is now deputy editor of its sister paper, the Crewe Guardian. The National Union of Journalists is running a course on Getting Started as
The Thurrock Gazette is welcoming a new editor this week, with the appointment of Neil Speight. Previously the launch editor of the East Riding Gazette, Neil joined the Essex-based newspaper on Monday and, after a brief hand-over period, will succeed
A New Year shake-up at the Western Daily Press has seen a host of its staff appointed to new roles. The raft of changes has seen Ellie Campbell promoted from her job as news editor to the wider role of
New Year baby Alfie Cribben has received a signed photo from EastEnders star Shane Richie, who plays the character of his namesake – thanks to the Kentish Express. During a routine New Year’s Day visit to the local maternity ward
The TV drama In Denial of Murder, based on investigative journalist Don Hale’s battle to free Stephen Downing from prison, is due to be screened this spring. Don’s determination to prove Downing’s innocence captured the imagination of the press and
Re The Darkness:
A historic archive of photographs and cuttings from Newsquest’s Scottish newspapers is to be moved to Glasgow’s Mitchell Library. Around two million images and thousands of cuttings from The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times are currently stored at their
Staff at the Reading Evening Post are leading by example after they took to the streets to clear up their doorstep as part of a new clean-up campaign in the town. Reading Borough Council has unveiled its Your Reading strategy,
Even HTFP can be accused of not being PC with their coverage of this story.
Journalists are being invited to attend a discussion about reporting murder, which will focus on the deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and the trial of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr. Organised by the Dart Centre for Journalism and
The Citizen is preparing a plan to quit its current offices at St John’s Lane in Gloucester and move to another site in the city. The project, which should come to fruition during the next 15 months or so, would
Paul Kearney is to become the new managing director of the Derby Telegraph’s publishing company, Derby Daily Telegraph Ltd. Currently managing director of Northcliffe Newspaper’s South East Weeklies, Paul will fill the role vacated by Tim Kitchen, who is to
The new owners of the Belfast-based News Letter have begun the search for a new editor following the departure of Nigel Wareing. Nigel (pictured) had worked for the former Trinity Mirror newspaper for the past year, and was previously editor-in-chief
The Halifax Evening Courier is helping to get a kerbside recycling collection scheme back up and running with a donation of £4,000. The newspaper has handed over the cash from its managed fund within the Community Foundation for Calderdale, which