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.
Thanks again for your One World Beat story ‘Volunteer journalists to promote charity concert’, which has helped us recruit a fantastic new volunteer in Stoke, Samantha Cope, who is a reporter on the Stoke Sentinel.
The first media arts college in the Midlands is almost ready to launch, with nearly all the funding in place to help Maryhill High School in Kidsgrove bid for specialist status. Maryhill wants to become a training ground for the
The UK business community thinks that the regional press is the most useful media for local business news, according to a survey by The Newspaper Society.More than a third believe that regional papers have their finger on the pulse of
The Media Society, which brings together people from all branches of the media for debate, discussion and campaigning, celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. It is holding a celebration party next month for members to look back over the past
The Ely Standard is the local paper for Soham, scene of the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, and it has been closely involved with the case right from the start. Deputy editor Debbie Davies tells how the paper
The Grimsby Telegraph silenced critics of a local council story which it ran – after the paper revealed its source was a council press release. The story prompted outrage from a series of North East Lincolnshire councillors, including deputy council
A journalist who has retired after almost 50 years in the job is planning to return to work – to help her colleagues out in the new year! Carol Frost joined the Ashbourne News Telegraph in 1955 as a junior
Staff at the Taunton Times went back to school in an experiment that put professional credibility on the line. In the Testing Times feature, six members of staff, including the editor, deputy editor and news editor, sat GCSE papers to
National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear has awarded the union’s first ‘Scrooge Award for Corporate Greed’ to Newsquest chief executive Paul Davidson.He delivered a bag of chocolate gold coins, a copy of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and
The Manchester Evening News is offering a £10,000 reward in a bid to find out who killed a 97-year-old woman. Last month Evelyn Jackson was attacked during a robbery at her home, and she later died from her injuries, but
Following the opening of the M6 Toll motorway, designed to give motorists the chance to avoid congestion, the Coventry Evening Telegraph decided to put it to the test – and sent two of its reporters out in rush hour traffic
The Leicester Mercury’s news of the Soham ‘guilty’ verdicts broke in time for the paper’s City edition, on the streets an hour after the jury announced its decision. The Final edition, brought forward by an hour, was strengthened with news
Grimsby Telegraph court reporter Mark Naylor was one of only four regional journalists allowed to sit through the Huntley and Carr trial. Here is his account of the events that unfolded in the historic Court One at the Old Bailey.
Respected motoring writer Tom Leake has died, aged 75. He had been ill for more than a year and died in hospital after suffering liver failure. The journalist was part of the Leake family, which used to own the Wellington
The first of a new series of community newspapers for Barrow has rolled off the North West Evening Mail’s presses. Island Eye is full of news, views and information for people on Barrow Island and will be distributed free to
Lincolnshire Echo sports sub Derek Chapman has died, aged 58, after a short illness. Derek, who joined the Echo in 1988, died in his sleep at Lincoln County Hospital on Saturday. He started his 40-year career in journalism at the