News US magazine launches and closures fall in 2010 According to mediafinder.com, 176 magazine were launched in the first nine months of this year, compared with 259 in the same period in 2009 By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News African Press Organisation to partner online news agency A24 Deal will see A24 host APO's wire service, which includes multilingual reports and press releases from governments, political organisations and NGOs By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Metropolitan Police asks Guardian for new phone-hacking evidence Request prompts response from editor Alan Rusbridger criticising the Met's handling of witnesses and calling the request for Guardian evidence 'a last resort' By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Head of Czech hyperlocal project given just days to close entire operation Roman Gallo resigned at the end of September after being told shut down Nase Adresa and the project's state-of-the-art training centre By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Sheffield journalism students help Guardian with local authority data project Postgraduate students contact local authorities to collect budget details ahead of government spending review By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News #WEFHamburg: News outlets need to know more about online display ads, says Zeit Online editor Speaking at the World Editors Forum, Wolfgang Blau said online advertising has been 'discredited', but its potential has not been properly investigated By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Former Bastiat Prize winners in contention again as 2010 shortlist announced Financial Times' Tim Harford and freelancer Jamie Whyte, who shared the accolade in 2006, will compete against five others for the £10,000 prize By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News #WEFHamburg: Crowd-funded news site Spot.us is sticking to startup roots, says founder David Cohn is slowly weaning his startup off the grant money won in 2008's Knight News Challenge and building up other revenue streams By Laura Oliver • 4 min read
News #WEFHamburg: Global newspaper circulation fell for first time in 2009, according to report World Press Trends report recording a 0.8% decline in global circulations last year, the first in the history of the report By Laura Oliver • 3 min read
News #WEFHamburg: NewsCloud sets its sights on communities of connected readers Knight Foundation backed startup NewsCloud is an open source technology platform working with Facebook to create better interaction for readers By Laura Oliver • 3 min read
News #WEFHamburg: Invest in a more human side, Zeit online editor tells Google Wolfgang Blau meets with Madhav Chinappa and Peter Barron from Google at the World Editors Forum to discuss the search engine's courtship of news organisations By Laura Oliver • 3 min read
News #WEFHamburg: News companies need to be in 'perpetual beta', says New York Times CEO Digital advances at the New York Times include integrating its website with Facebook and allowing readers to filter news feeds by friends' recommendations By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
