On HoldtheFrontPage today we are running our nominations for the Top Ten Friday Funnies of 2009, featuring the very best in UK press cock-ups, bizarre news judgements, unintentional double entendres and sheer silliness from the past 12 months. Now we

This rather sorry image was captured in a regional press newsroom earlier today. We’ll spare the blushes of the newspaper concerned, but the journalist who sent it to us seemed to think it summed up his company’s year…..

An Israeli sports reporter got more than he bargained for when he went to cover a basketball match on Tuesday. Irmi Olmert, the brother of the country’s former Prime Minister Ehud, apparently took exception to something the reporter had said

HoldtheFrontPage is at Stansted today covering the Society of Editors conference, the biggest media gathering of the year. You can follow our live updates via our Twitter feed, Journalism News.

Most HoldtheFrontPage readers would say yes, of course. But here’s an opposing view from the Guardian columnist George Monbiot.

You can say what you like about TV’s the X-Factor, but it certainly gets people talking. Last night’s decision by Simon Cowell to reprieve talentless twins John and Edward Grimes at the expense of Welsh songbird Lucie Jones has been

As his one-time deputy Keith Perch recently noted, Mike Lowe was one of the great ‘personality editors’ of the 1990s, bringing his unique style of journalism to first the Gloucester Citizen, then the Derby Evening Telegraph, and finally the Bristol

The funeral of former MEN political editor Ian Craig took place in his family’s home town of Wrexham yesterday, with many regional lobby figures past and present paying their respects. So today’s obituary by David McKittrick in the Independent was

Tory blogger Iain Dale’s connection to the regional press is somewhat tenuous – he writes a column for the Eastern Daily Press – so we didn’t carry today’s story about the PCC adjudication against him on the main site. Nonetheless,

Earlier this week on HoldtheFrontPage we carried news of the sudden death of long-standing regional lobby correspondent Ian Craig, who until earlier this year was political editor of the Manchester Evening News. It is always sad when a journalist passes

A certain amount flak will inevitably be flying in the direction of Trinity Mirror over its decision to take the Birmingham Post weekly. Indeed the NUJ’s Chris Morley, who seems to reserve his most colourful invective for matters affecting Trinity

Speculation is mounting in the blogosphere over the future of the Trinity Mirror owned titles in Birmingham. Nearly two months ago, the company launched a wide-ranging consultation over the future of the Birmingham Post and Mail. Options under consideration included

In a similar sort of vein to the previous post, the journalism foundation course run in Newcastle by the Press Association recently turned 40, but there were no birthday celebrations for the renowned training centre. Sadly for its many distinguished

The announcement last month that Paul Horrocks was leaving after 12 years as editor of the Manchester Evening News was predictably one of our biggest stories of recent months, although interestingly, it got fewer page views on HTFP than our

The Newspaper Society’s weekly newsletter arrived in our inbox this morning with an item about the local media fighting for open justice. "Media commentator Roy Greenslade has highlighted recent instances in which local media journalists reporting on cases in criminal

Credit crunch, recession, economic downturn – sadly all expressions which feature heavily in today’s news. As a result, job hunting within the press and media industry has become increasingly difficult for those seeking career progression or a new, post-redundancy job.