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.
The Edinburgh Evening News is the best-performing daily newspaper in Scotland, according to the latest readership figures. The results of the latest National Readership Survey show the News had a 39.9 per cent increase in readers over the past year
Richard Butt is settling into a new role at the Manchester Metro News after being appointed as the paper’s new editor. Richard, (35), officially took over the editorship two weeks ago, following the departure of John Jeffay, who has joined
Newspapers in Oxfordshire and Wiltshire look set to benefit from a Newsquest investment in a new printing press, capable of producing 96 full-colour tabloid pages at 75,000 copies an hour. It has ordered a Geoman 75 press from MAN Roland,
A weekly crime feature in the Hull Daily Mail is still proving to be a huge success, two years after it was launched. The paper’s Caught on Camera feature has helped Humberside Police track down dozens of suspects since DC
It really was Now or Never for journalists Jo Rodgers and Howard Foster, who walked up the aisle in a Las Vegas wedding chapel to the strains of a real-live Elvis Presley. The pair, who work at the Scunthorpe Telegraph,
The Future Events News Service has launched a new service to focus specifically on Wales. The company collates events and key dates to give leads for news providers across the UK, and labels itself ‘Britain’s national diary news service’. The
A Hertfordshire weekly has stepped in to help in the nationwide manhunt for a serial sex attacker. The ‘Trophy Rapist’ is believed to have carried out ten sex attacks across the South East over the past 11 months, and now
The best in British and international journalism will be honoured this month at The Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2002 – with competition especially fierce among a record-breaking number of nominations.The eight journalistic categories, which have attracted 180 entries, are:
A child abuse victim has waived her anonymity for a chance to tell her story in the Wiltshire Times. Mum-of-three Vicky Hiscock, (27), was drugged and sexually molested by her stepfather for five years and on the eve of his
The South Wales Argus hit its highest daily sales figure for five years in early November. The average daily base sale of 30,904 in the week ending November 2 also marked another milestone – the first time the sale had
The Bucks Herald in Aylesbury has launched a new monthly magazine for women. BH The Magazine is a 52-page Sunday supplement-style magazine packed with features on fashion, health, hair and beauty, competitions and horoscopes combined with Real Lives interviews, gift
A stark warning about taking care in the office while the firefighters are on strike led to a downbeat memo from the Derby Telegraph’s Chris Baker, who in addition to reminding staff about rules on smoking and fire drill, broke
Phil Fleming has been appointed as the new editor of the Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen. Currently group editor of the Wirral Globe and Messenger series, he will take up his new role on November 25. Phil, (pictured), is returning to
Margaret Beckett has ended her long silence and finally granted the Western Morning News an interview. The rural affairs secretary this week spoke to the paper’s London editor, Jason Groves, about some of Britain’s most pressing rural concerns – 18
Express & Star reporter Paul Kelly bravely mingled with Brighton supporters to find out what it’s like to be an away fan at Molineux, the home of Wolverhampton Wanderers. What a surprise! The Molineux mini-army of thugs, knuckle-draggers and half-wits
Tributes have been paid to Keighley News sub-editor Clive Pratt who died on Saturday. He had suffered a brain haemorrhage while celebrating his 49th birthday on Thursday and died in hospital. Clive had worked at the weekly Keighley News since