A course to help prisoners gain valuable journalism skills and qualifications is about to be launched nationwide.
The Pathways to Journalism course, devised and developed by the NUJ and writers and educationalists in prisons, has been piloted in eight prisons since 2001 and during that time has been endorsed by high profile journalists and held up by prisons as a model scheme.

More could be done by the media, press freedom organisations, refugee groups and governments across Europe to protect journalists who flee persecution, according to a hard-hitting new report from media ethics charity MediaWise.
Exiled Journalists in Europe, edited by journalists Rich Cookson, Mike Jempson and Forward Maisokwadzo, describes some of the ground-breaking work being done to help colleagues re-establish themselves, and highlights gaps in provision.
The Report examines 11 countries – with statistics and stories about what is being done by non-governmental organisations and media unions. It contains recommendations about how media organisations, voluntary groups and government agencies could make a difference. Much of the research was carried out by exiled journalists around the world with direct experience of projects designed to assist them.

Former Western Mail photographer Dennis Stephens has been remembered by family, friends and colleagues at his funeral in Cardiff.
He was 78 and had been ill for some time. Dennis began his career at the Mail after leaving his National Service with the Army. He went on to work for the Daily Herald and was later a successful freelance.

Hotgroup Plc is now owned and controlled by Trinity Mirror after enough hotgroup shareholders backed the takeover to allow it to take place unconditionally.
The hotgroup comprises both online and traditional recruitment businesses. The online division is the UK’s second largest online recruitment business in terms of traffic, with more than 1m unique users. It operates as a network of sites including workthing.com, planetrecruit, jobsfinancial and hotrecruit.