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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.

Echo editor is quizzed online

Liverpool Echo editor Mark Dickinson opened himself up to criticism when he went live online in a web chat on the paper’s website www.icliverpool.co.uk. Readers voiced their concerns over coverage, content and grammar during the hour-long chat, but Mark good-naturedly

Matt's late night Currie

Web editor Matt Bailey was flying the Adoption-net flag during an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live. Matt edits the award-winning Northcliffe Electronic Publishing website and was invited along to Birmingham to take part in a live adoption debate, chaired

Holdthefrontpage hits a new high

Holdthefrontpage is continuing to grow – and has recorded more than 1.6m page views already this year. That’s a 140 per cent increase on the same time last year. The most popular group of pages is for job vacancies, which

Reporter's online diary helps keep families in touch

The Manchester Evening News is helping to keep families in touch with loved ones out in the Gulf, via its website, ManchesterOnline. The newspaper’s war correspondent, Martin Dillon, is currenly reporting on the conflict in the Middle East, based with

Internet community forum's new spring growth

The Northern Echo’s CommuniGate scheme, which has helped community groups across the region set up their own websites, has reached a major milestone. The Internet scheme now has 1,500 websites – making it one of the most successful schemes of

Messages for the troops to hit the airwaves

A new section has been added to the Iraq module running on all Northcliffe this is sites, called “Support our Troops”. The section is being run in conjunction with the Forces radio station, BFBS, and a link on the module

Gazette puts readers in the picture

The Blackpool Gazette has launched a new online picture service for its readers. A new photosales site linked to the Gazette’s main website, allows readers to order prints of pictures taken by the newspaper’s photographers. The site is updated regularly

Forum revamp to prompt debate

This is Swindon Town has a brand new Fans’ Forum which makes it even easier to debate the Robins’ most pressing issues. Topics from the old forum have all been archived, but there is a wealth of new sections (below)

Gazette goes online for election time

The Galloway Gazette has launched a new website in time for the election results. www.gallowaygazette.com went live last week, and is being used by the paper to give its readers exclusive coverage of the Scottish Parliamentary Elections and the local

Paper's webcam brings standing stones into focus

This is Wiltshire is offering a new way of looking at one of Britain’s most enigmatic ancient monuments. Weird Wiltshire, the one-stop site about all things mysterious in the county, now has a webcam trained on Avebury. In association with

Online edition gets a makeover

The website for the Evening Times in Glasgow, has undergone a makeover. Following three months of development, the website has gone ‘live’ with a new look and a host of new features designed to make the site easier to use

PCC pointers for journalism trainees

The Press Complaints Commission has launched a new online section to help journalism students studying its work and the editors’ Code of Practice. The Commission’s website now includes a special section which gives detailed answers to some of the questions

Express & Star lends a hand for get well message

The Wolverhampton Express & Star’s website has helped send a get well gift to a Wolves fan who has been seriously ill. Phil Cornes, an expressandstar.com Molineux Mix message board regular, has been receiving treatment for a serious illness. And

Website editor is special guest

Yorkshire Evening Post sub-editor Liz Carnell was a guest at a Government reception. The event marked the launch of the 2003 National E-Commerce Awards in which the Harrogate charity Bullying Online, of which she’s the founder and director, was a

Farewell to 'Gentleman Jim'

The final curtain has come down on one of the most illustrious journalism careers in Newsquest’s history with the retirement of the Oxford Mail’s editor Jim McClure. Jim first joined the paper 37 years ago as a sub-editor and is

'Page 3' Christmas cheer for sexy pensioner

Do you remember pensioner Albert Skipper, who News Shopper staff had a whip-round for after council killjoys froze his benefits? He’s in for a happy Christmas after a visit from former Page 3 stunna Carla Winters, who turned up in