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.)
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The Society of Editors Scottish Seminar, which will take place in Edinburgh on September 10 and 11, will be attended by a number of high profile public figures. Non-members of the Society who have already booked to attend the event
Trinity Mirror has announced it is to close its press in Chester as part of a group-wide project to cut costs and improve operating efficiencies and newspaper quality. The Chronicle Series, North Wales Weekly News Series and Buy Sell group
The Newark Advertiser has been praised by the chief executive of a health trust after prompting an end to secret decision-making by health chiefs. The paper wrote to Newark and Sherwood Primary Care Trust, after demanding in print that it
The project to redesign and extend Northcliffe’s network of this is sites has been completed with the launch of www.tamworthherald.co.uk. It is the latest site to migrate to the new platform, marking the end of the five-month rollout programme. The
Fantasy writer Terry Pratchett, who is a former journalist for the Western Daily Press, has been awarded an honorary degree by Bristol University.He was honoured with the degree of Doctor of Letters at a special ceremony at Wills Memorial Building.
Two regional newspapers are campaigning to save local Army regiments after defence secretary Geoff Hoon’s announcement that 20,000 armed forces jobs are to be axed. The News & Star in Carlisle is asking readers to sign a petition to save
Former regional press journalist Steve Jackson is quitting his PR firm and home in Newcastle to become a fundraiser in Vietnam. Steve, (33), who began his career at the Gateshead Post before becoming a Homemaker writer with The Journal, has
The Grimsby Telegraph has taken its right to reply after coming under fire from a council leader who said the paper was “dragging the area down”. North East Lincolnshire Council leader Andrew De Freitas made the comments during a cabinet
After writing a book about walking the coast of Spain, former regional press reporter David Jones swapped life on UK papers for the Costa Blanca News. He spoke to Holdthefrontpage about the walk, his book, and the difference between UK
If you want to manipulate a journalist in the UK, you’ll find it easier than anywhere else in the world – especially if you are prepared to lay on a free lunch. A new study has found that when it
Newcastle Evening Chronicle reporter Beth Neil got a taste of life as a war correspondent when she joined 100 Royal Marines Reservists at a training exercise. Beth, (24), was invited to spend the weekend with the Reservists who fought for
A Bedfordshire on Sunday investigation has revealed that a subsidised bus service aimed at disadvantaged communities is being abused by local business people as a way of commuting to the railway station and getting a lift to the pub.The paper
The Grimsby Telegraph has taken its right to reply after coming under fire from a council leader who said the paper was “dragging the area down”. North East Lincolnshire Council leader Andrew De Freitas made the comments during a cabinet
The Shields Gazette got the inside story on a man who had climbed to the top of the Tyne Bridge, after he called the newsdesk to tell his tale during a four-and-half-hour protest. Staff were shocked to receive the unusual
The Wiltshire Times has blasted a local headteacher’s criticism of newly recruited reporter Jenny Haworth as “cowardly”. James Colquhoun, headteacher of St Laurence School in Bradford on Avon, had told Jenny in an interview that his school was a good
Newcastle Evening Chronicle reporter Beth Neil got a taste of life as a war correspondent when she joined 100 Royal Marines Reservists at a training exercise. Beth, (24), was invited to spend the weekend with the Reservists who fought for