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.
Driving big and powerful off-road vehicles over rugged countryside may sound like a typically male thing to do. But these days more and more women are trying their hands at activities like 4×4 driving, quad biking and clay pigeon shooting.Reporter
A newspaper publisher has been ordered to pay £1m for abusing its dominant market position after failing to overturn an Office of Fair Trading decision at appeal. Aberdeen Journals Ltd, which publishes the Evening Express and Press & Journal in
Two reporters from the Sutton Coldfield Observer took their life in their hands to leap from a plane at 13,000ft in the name of charity. The event was to make money for the paper’s successful Asthma Aid campaign to fund
With Derby Evening Telegraph delivery vans stuck in traffic jams, and a switchboard full of newsagents clamouring for copies of the newspaper, the transport team was under pressure to come up with a solution. The answer was right under the
Yorkshire reporter Hilary Sanders has died following a long illness, aged 57. She had worked for York & County Press for four years, and covered the Ryedale district for the weekly Gazette & Herald. Her stories also appeared in the
Ripley and Heanor News reporter Richard Gadsby bid a fond farewell to family, friends and colleagues ahead of his ‘trip of a lifetime’ travelling to trek across Australia.His replacement is Rebecca Hampson, formerly of the Ilkeston Advertiser, who is preparing
Copies of the Western Daily Press were printed at Northcliffe’s Staverton printworks in Gloucestershire after an explosion in a generator caused a power cut at its Bristol headquarters. Staff were evacuated from the multi-storey building, which also houses staff from
The Evening Press in York will soon be welcoming a new reporter into its newsroom – after recruiting them through a contest to win a job in journalism. It launched the Write Stuff competition earlier this year to find the
Aberdeen Journals Ltd is due to find out next week if the company will have to pay a £1.328m fine for predatory pricing of adverts. The company, which publishes the Press & Journal, Evening Express and the weekly Herald &
Former Weston & Somerset Mercury editor John Bailey has died. He was 92. He had spent more than 50 years at the newspaper when he retired in 1980, and had started out as a teenager, taking adverts at the front
Reporter David McKay is set to swap his notepad and pen for rock stardom after clinching a dream record deal with his band Driveblind. The Press and Journal man will re-locate to Los Angeles later this month after impressing record
A council is refusing to comment on a story about one of its officers being suspended, unless the weekly newspaper carrying the report reveals its sources. The Walsall Advertiser is refusing to tell Walsall Council where it got the information
A launch party last night celebrated the redesign and refocus of The Glaswegian. The free newspaper, launched in 1996 as a paid-for, unveiled a fresh 64-page full-colour design. The first edition of the revamped product was being distributed to more
Editors at two Scottish weekly papers are recovering this week after taking part in the Edinburgh Marathon. Graeme Scott of the Fife Herald and Colin Hume from the Falkirk Herald were among the thousands of runners who endured the 26.2
The National Union of Journalists and management at the News Shopper series in south east London have reached agreement on pay negotiations which will see staff receive a 2.5 per cent pay rise. This will also be topped up with
Ed Asquith is to become the new editor of the Scarborough Evening News. Currently editorial director of the Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group, he will join the Scarborough title on June 30. He takes over from Paul Napier, who was appointed