News in brief
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News
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.)
If you are looking for a story about a particular newspaper or media company, you can use the links in the ‘Main News Links’ list to the right to take you to our directory pages. Here you will find indexes of all the stories we have written about each of the newspapers and media companies featured on the site.
Scholarship scheme student starts work as reporter
New graduate completes scheme – and wins inaugural photographic award
Politicians lobby MD on press closure proposal
Party leaders warn that moving production from Swansea would be a “retrograde step”
Sentinel’s Peter Bossley dies at the age of 42
Popular assistant editor was found dead at home
Attack on laws which 'deny journalists rights'
Trade union leader speaks out over restrictions imposed by legislation
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Paper monitors 75 garages, plus: U-turn on crossing patrols – and more regional press news in brief
Magazine launched to woo affluent readers
ABC1s targeted by weekly newspapers group’s new 132-page glossy
National five per cent pay bid by journalists' union
NUJ targets Newsquest and Trinity Mirror in request for talks
New home for the world’s oldest press club
Seven years of moving offices is over as “spiritual home” is reclaimed
30,000 sales boost follows Michael Owen transfer
“We couldn’t print the paper fast enough” – editor
Death of reporter who interviewed Idi Amin and Africa's 'cannibal emperor'
Former Express & Echo journalist travelled the world with his profession
Free weekly in bus company distribution deal
‘Enquirer on the buses’ will be trialled for three months and could be rolled out across the county
Post cartoonist becomes the story in TV documentary
A press cartoonist whose career has seen off ten editors and six prime ministers has been making the headlines himself. Bert Hackett, of The Birmingham Post, has had his career celebrated on regional television news magazine Central News. The 72-year-old
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Post forced to scrap five pages on deadline as trial collapses
News staff pull out all the stops to fill gap left by trial evidence
Mail publishes front page headline in Mandarin Chinese
‘Symbolic gesture’ made in bid to get answers on future of major local manufacturer