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Liverpool journalists recognised with 02 media awards

LDP's Laura Davis named digital journalist of the year at yesterday's Merseyside event


Guardian Weekly turns 90; launches online archive of republished stories

An eight-page supplement will also mark the publication's anniversary


Independent launches new mobile site

The Bluestar Mobile built service aims to offer a 'faster and simplified' version of news


Archant apologises for lifting copy from independent news site

Copyright infringement is major issue facing SoGlos.com, says publisher


Fire Brigades Union monthly magazine takes away TUC prize

Firefighter magazine and BECTU were among the winners at last night's ceremony


Northcliffe launches 20 'community sites' in Local People pilot

Hyperlocal platforms focus on conversation and interaction at local level, say developers


Campaign urges BBC News to release full text RSS feeds

Fuller feeds would encourage mash-ups and greater distribution of news items, say founders


Trinity Mirror confirms proposed closure of Midlands weeklies

Ninety-four redundancies expected across Midlands operations


Impact of downturn on freelancers' workloads is limited, says new study

Survey of 535 freelance workers offers insight into how sector is facing the credit crunch


Nuts and NME scoop prizes at PPA Awards

Nuts recognised for 'single-minded commercial exploitation of the brand'


Mainstream media failing to make news understandable to public, says new report

Study finds people confused by traditional media, but trusting the internet


Journalist superstars give tutorials on YouTube

YouTube launches channel for professional journalists to share knowledge with citizen reporters


Local government accounts exposed by reporting network

Regional journalists and trainees called on to investigate authorities' accounts


Hyperlocal news site Outside.in targets publishers with new product launch

Service will allow news organisations to rapidly produce hyperlocal news pages


Citizenside signs deal with first major news partner 20 Minutes

Vos Images user community will feature Citizenside's technology for uploading images and clips


HuffPo targets international readers with new ad deal

Site signs up with AdGent007 to sell international inventory


IFRA on its merger with WAN: 'By combining forces we will be even better'

Official confirmation for the formation of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers


May ABCes: Guardian retains top spot, Sun posts biggest gain

Slight drop in unique users for Guardian.co.uk, while rivals post gains


Pink Paper suspends print edition and goes online-only

Current economic downturn forces publisher to focus on its web product


DazedDigital.com launches new blog awards

Raw Blog Awards will recognise music and fashion bloggers


Norway's Drammens Tidende wins live court reporting appeal

Decision to ban reader comments on CoveritLive blog on trial overturned


WAN and IFRA will merge, O'Reilly confirms in HuffPo interview

Germany-based IFRA and the World Association of Newspapers will join forces as one organisation


AJE: Now is most exciting time to become journalist, says Jon Snow

Graduates and trainers can change industry and the world in which we live, says broadcaster


An open letter from the newly launched Investigations Fund

Many of the UK's top investigative reporters involved in new venture


AJE: 'There is an element of fraud in journalism education', says leading professor

Few journalism students will make grade in the industry, says University of Kent's Tim Luckhurst


Guardian launches 'major crowd-sourcing experiment' with MPs' expenses application

Within 90 minutes of its launch, 1,700 users had 'audited' parliament data using new tool


Absolute Radio to question community about charging online

Mixture of new revenue streams required to counter decline in traditional spot ads model, says COO


DocumentCloud and Ushahidi win grants in third Knight News Challenge

Public records database and crisis information site receive funding


MediaFinance: Time Out will grow digital revenues in 2009, says founder

Magazine group has diversified online revenue streams, Tony Elliott tells conference


UGC offering authenticity despite restrictions in Iran, says BBC's Richard Sambrook

Material from Iran is changing broadcaster's relationship with audience, says global news head


Competition rules stop publishers challenging aggregators, says McCall

Local news providers who jointly take action against revenue-diverting aggregators deemed anti-competitive


Half UK's regional newspapers to close in five years, predicts Enders

Decline in advertising and circulation will shutter 'local community' papers first, says industry analyst


Not forgetting Iraq: Former Baghdad correspondent on reconnecting communities

Oliver Poole, recipient of the Montaigne medal for his second book, describes new projects ahead


'Now is too late for local media', SoE head tells new culture secretary

Government must look at short-term measures to support newsgathering by local media, says Satchwell


Frontline Club launches broadsheet for independent journalism

Frontline: A Broadsheet will feature international and domestic coverage away from the mainstream


NUJ chapel votes for ballot as more job redundancies proposed at Brighton Argus

Chapel members at Newsquest title vote to ballot for action following management decisions


Telegraph 'didn't tell any lies but was selective in its facts', says Lib Dem Voice site editor

'Distorted' Liberal Democrat cases identified by Stephen Tall among online complaints made about Telegraph stories


Rory Peck Awards open for entries

Freelancers, who have had work broadcast between 1 August 2008 and 31 July 2009, invited to apply


Share licence fee between broadcasters, say Ross and Bazalgette

Disaggregating licence fee would boost plurality, say industry experts


PageSuite signs e-editions deal with Associated Newspapers

Digital editions of Metro UK, Metro Ireland, London Lite and 7Days will be available


Coventry University launches iTunes U site with more than 150 lectures, talks and debates

The 'Coventry Conversations' media series will be featured, as part of the new facility


Difficult to get Western media attention on Kenyan killings and disappearances, says WikiLeaks editor

Julian Assange was awarded the Amnesty International New Media prize for the leak of a Kenyan Human Rights report


Poland's Gazeta marks anniversary of end of communism with multimedia push

Vast online archive and social network launched alongside public events


Channel 4 News multimedia editor steps down

Jon Bernstein leaves ITN after more than four years


William Reed Business Media acquires niche digital publisher

Group takes on Decision News Media and 18 titles


RBI takes three AOP awards

FHM.com, Telegraph and Guardian all winners at last night's prize ceremony


PCC can work without statutory enforcement, says Follett

Prior notification procedures and apologies should be enforced through rigour not law, says culture minister


Strand News calls on news industry to support court coverage

Agency asks for small donations to support unrivalled reporting on UK courts


Trinity Mirror questions local government through Yoosk

Collaboration with readers and news site will aid Birmingham Mail's reporting


ITV retreat from regions is 'a real disaster' says former Central News presenter

Arti Halai expressed her dismay at the broadcaster's recent decisions in the latest of the Coventry Conversations


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