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Manchester Evening News plans relocation to Oldham

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:26:00 -0800

MEN Media, publisher of the Manchester Evening News, is proposing to relocate all commercial and editorial operations to Oldham.

NUJ: Sale of GMG Regionals raises plurality issues

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:23:00 -0800

The National Union of Journalists is to raise concerns about media plurality and diversity of information in north-west England with the Government.

Analysis: GMG jettisons regionals to save mothership

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:47:00 -0800

For years the Manchester Evening News was the cash cow which bankrolled the losses of The Guardian in London - what now?

GMG to discuss 'range of options' for Channel M's future

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:34:00 -0800

Guardian Media Group is to consult with staff over the likely future of its regional television station after agreeing to sell off its regional newspaper business.

Manchester Evening News sold to Trinity in �45m deal

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:04:00 -0800

The Guardian is to end its 130 year association with the MEN after its parent company reached an agreement to sell off its regional newspaper.

Arbroath Herald celebrates its 125th anniversary

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:52:32 -0800

Scottish weekly, the Arbroath Herald, celebrated its 125 anniversary last week. The paper was originally published as a four-page free title when it hit newsstands for the first time on 5 February, 1885. The Herald, which was launched by a man named John Brodie, remained a free paper until September 1887 when it marked its move to [...]

Jailing should spell end to libel actions of litigious Dizaei

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:52:08 -0800

Lawyers at the Daily Mail will heave a sigh of relief that corrupt policeman Ali Dizaei has been jailed for four years after trying to frame an innocent man following a fracas in a Kensington restaurant. He was found guilty of misconduct in a public office and perverting the course of justice after a row over [...]

PCC: Dannii Minogue pregnancy stories breached privacy

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:19:00 -0800

The Press Complaints Commission has upheld complaints from X Factor judge Dannii Minogue that Mirror and Record stories were an invasion of privacy.

Lord Ashcroft sues the Independent

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:47:00 -0800

Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft is pursuing a legal action against The Independent newspaper claming a front page story was defamatory.

Brangelina sue News of the World over divorce claims

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:23:00 -0800

Film stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have opened up a new front in Britain�s privacy law battle after suing the News of the World over allegations they are set to divorce.

Online ad recovery will make life tricky for paid content publishers

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:52:47 -0800

As inevitably as night follows day, the debate about paywalls started in earnest during early 2009, a few months after the collapse of Lehmann Brothers, and several months after online display advertising stopped growing. Publishers have spent the past year obsessing about paid content. Yet in the meantime, something wholly inevitable and largely unnoticed has happened [...]

Adam Boulton: Dimbleby got ‘too involved’ in Griffin Question Time performance

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:05:50 -0800

The first ever television debates between party leaders in the run-up to the general election are in danger of being “negotiated to death”, senior party sources told the Guardian. On senior figure told the paper there was a danger the spontaneity was being dragged out of the debates as key issues - like the degree of [...]

Press Gazette's Comment Top 50

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:52:00 -0800

Times columnist Matthew Parris has been named as the nation�s top comment writer in a Press Gazette poll of leading journalists and the general public.

Ten new journalism jobs found today

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:00:38 -0800

Press Gazette has found ten new jobs for journalists today. To view the daily archive of our journalism jobs search click on Journalism Jobs. Itchy is looking for restaurant review writers. You must have experience in journalism. Job location: London UKIP Media & Events is looking for a deputy editor. You should have two years’ experience in journalism. You [...]

Peter Preston: Something ‘a bit rum’ about Purves and Muir’s new critic roles

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:25:53 -0800

Former Guardian editor Peter Preston thinks it’s “a bit rum” that Times editor James Harding has appointed two non specialist writers to the jobs of theatre and film critics: Libby Purves and Kate Muir respectively. Preston believes that those who have devoted their careers to the genres might do a better job than these relative late-comers. He [...]

Brown’s tears: Morgan persuades Brown to admit leadership deal

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:14:58 -0800

There were more tears in a political interview this weekend as Piers Morgan talked to Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the death of his first child. The Brown interview is due to be screened on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories on ITV1 next Sunday. Former Daily Mirror editor Morgan also bagged a scoop in the interview has Brown [...]

Video: Campbell’s tears: ‘Journalism should be about telling the truth’

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:56:00 -0800

Alastair Campbell accused the BBC’s Andrew Marr of pursuing an “agenda” after an emotional interview on BBC One yesterday. Campbell looked close to tears and had to take a moment to compose himself at one point as Marr questioned him on Tony Blair’s false assertion about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in the run up [...]

Perroncel maintains media silence over Terry

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:48:00 -0800

Vanessa Perroncel spurned media offers for her story after cutting a confidentiality deal with the former England captain, according to the News of the World.

Former ITN chief executive to lead Scottish IFNC bid

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:28:19 -0800

Former ITN chief executive Mark Wood has been appointed chairman of a consortium bidding to run the Independently Funded News Consortia pilot in Scotland. The move will put Wood in direct competition with his former employers in the battle to secure public money for the venture. Woods will chair the Scottish News Consortium, an alliance of newspaper [...]

Tory MP sues Standard over expenses article

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:56:00 -0800

Conservative Jacqui Lait has launched a libel action against the Evening Standard over a story headed "Women MPs will be put off by Kelly reforms".

Magazine editor paid damages after Take A Break slur

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:32:00 -0800

The editor of a quarterly magazine for ambulance workers last week won an apology and "substantial" damages from Take A Break magazine.

Will the Guardian and Telegraph play nice again?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:28:33 -0800

The ongoing spat between the Telegraph and the Guardian has been entertaining. But I wonder whether it might be drawing to a close. In recent months, the Telegraph has become deeply interested in the Guardian’s financial performance, variously describing this as “grim”, “disappointing”, and “disastrous”. The Guardian’s apparent inability to impose compulsory redundancies on editorial staff has [...]