A new listings database is to be launched by www.ukdatapoint.com, where details of venues, events and performances will be collected to form what the creators expect to be the UK's most comprehensive entertainment listings database.
All listings will be either submitted free of charge from event organisers and venues or proactively collated by UKDatapoint researchers. The database will cover all categories of entertainment from film show times and live music gigs to exhibitions in galleries and museums.

The Guardian chapel of the National Union of Journalists has held a protest at its London offices over parent company Guardian Media Group's move to cut 27 editorial posts at its sister paper the Manchester Evening News.

World football’s governing body, FIFA, and the World Association of Newspapers has reached an agreement to lift all restrictions on digital publication of photographs of the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
The agreement came after a private meeting between the FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, and WAN chief executive Timothy Balding, who was also representing a coalition of leading news agencies, including AFP, AP, Reuters, Getty Images, and others.

Johnston Press has announced the appointment of Alex Green as director of digital publishing. He will have responsibility for driving and directing the group's entire digital publishing strategy.
Alex has spent the past 12 years growing businesses in converging areas of media and technology, including senior roles at News International and Virgin Group.

Campaigners are calling on the National Union of Journalists to change the membership rules for asylum-seekers and refugees.
The NUJ's Annual Delegates Meeting, in Liverpool this month, will be asked to accept asylum-seeking workers and give them full support and full membership as if they were valid workers in their home country. The motion to be put to the conference asks delegates to “amend the rules to ensure that asylum-seekers and refugees are entitled to full membership of the NUJ; urge those responsible for running the union's charities to consider changing the rules so that NUJ members who are asylum-seekers or refugees have access to grants; and campaign within the TUC for full membership status for asylum-seekers and refugees in other unions.”