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.
Ever the good sports, the Bristol Evening Post entered a 22-strong team for the Playtex Moonwalk event. The charity event through the streets of London at midnight was in aid of raising breast cancer awareness. And many of those who
A photographer who began his career on a regional weekly paper in London has been killed in a car accident. David Butler had been on a trip to visit family when his vehicle was involved in an accident on Monday
Mark Jones is the new editor of Gazette Newspapers at Basingstoke. Mark (right) – who started his career in 1985 at the Evening News in Worcester, has been deputy editor at Gazette Newspapers since February 1997. Prior to working in
The Sunday Mercury journalist being held by the authorities in a jail in Pakistan has managed to send two messages to his editor. The notes, sent by email by a friend outside the prison, represent the first direct contact since
A special ‘Toon’ edition of the Eastern Daily Press was printed to mark the retirement of Tom Stevenson, Archant’s managing director of digital media and group operations. Produced by EDP editor Peter Franzen, the edition marked the end of Tom’s
A replica of The Journal and Evening Chronicle newsrooms in Newcastle has been officially opened. Aimed at giving young people an insight into the world of the media, the Newspapers in Education Newsroom houses all the equipment and technology needed
Becky Gunn has been appointed chief reporter at the Skegness Standard.Essex girl Becky (23) moved to the Lincolnshire coast as a girl and earned a languages degree at Lancaster University before returning to Skegness to follow a career in journalism.
A Sunday Mercury journalist is being held by the authorities in Pakistan. Amardeep Bassey, (29), the paper’s investigations editor, was arrested on Friday when he tried to return to Pakistan from Afghanistan. He had been reporting on the upheavals in
What happens when your top local football team loses its Premiership status? One Staffordshire town is coming to terms with a changing sports news agenda… because as one team goes down it finds another – non-league – club making all
Claire Griffiths, of the Carmarthen Journal, finds out that dry ski slopes aren’t too bad – and can’t wait to try the real thing. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon, pouring with rain, and I was expected to strap two
Former Nottingham Evening Post journalist Marian Bryson has died after losing her battle against cancer. She was 69. Her husband, the Post’s former drama critic Emrys Bryson, was with her when she died. Marian started her journalism career as a
Motoring writer Alyson Marlow has joined forces with top Canadian rally driver Pat Richard for an assault on one of the country’s toughest rally championships. The pair have just completed their first event together as part of the Peugeot 206
Trinity Mirror has decided to retain the eight free weekly newspaper titles it was planning to sell to Johnston Press for £16m. Following an announcement by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which approved the transfer of only
The Evening Echo has won the right to name a teenager handed an anti-social behaviour order by magistrates. The 17-year-old was the first in Southend to receive the order, which is designed to protect people and property on an estate
First Minister Jack McConnell is to be the guest speaker at the Scottish Newspaper Publishers Association SNPA Conference this weekend.The SNPA is the trade association representing publishers of 100 weekly and bi-weekly newspapers and a further 30 free distribution newspapers.
Crime reporter Geoff Bennett was part of a team from the Swindon Evening Advertiser that took part in the Three Peaks Challenge. Here, he gives his account of the adventure. It was half way up Mount Snowdon when a wind-battered