Media ethics group MediaWise is to co-sponsor a fringe meeting at the National Union of Journalists’ annual delegate meeting in April, Regulating Journalists, to debate the provocative paper produced by Chris Wheal, who chairs the union’s professional training committee.
The consultation document was produced in January and remains a basis for debate – being neither union policy, nor a recommendation from the committee.

The Newspaper Society has commissioned the second stage of a major recruitment advertising research project from media strategy & research consultants, Human Capital.
A survey of 8,000 adults across the UK is being carried out to find out more on the role of regional newspapers and their online offerings in recruitment.

The Press Complaints Commission today published ts new Code of Practice Handbook, designed to demonstrate how the editor’s code of practice works, and set adjudications from the commission in context.
The new book costs £5 from the PCC and is written by former Western Daily Press editor Ian Beales.

Copies of the Carlisle News & Star’s flood edition from Monday January 10 are still in demand.
The paper sold 61,000 copies that day and readers are still buying the keepsake issue as a back-issue for £1.

Wiltshire Times news editor Craig Evry is putting himself up for auction at an event in Melksham to raise funds for the tsunami appeal.
He will be one of the lots at a ‘man auction’, run by Mums of Melksham, and said: “I hope I get a good bid.”