Credit: Google Maps News Press freedom index: 'Media paid dearly' for coverage of uprisings Eritrea, Turkmenistan and North Korea stay at the bottom of the annual press freedom index, while Syria, Bahrain and Yemen receive their 'worst ever rankings' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News BBC Trust chair calls for 're-think' of local radio cuts Chairman of the BBC Trust calls for a 're-think' of several proposals under the BBC's Delivering Quality First strategy, including a 'scaling back' of planned cuts to local radio By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News PA editor: Name mistake 'catastrophic example of human error' Editor of the Press Association Jonathan Grun tells the Leveson inquiry the 'scar' left by a mistake which identified the wrong person in a story is 'still very red and painful' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Nigel Chadwick on Geograph. Some rights reserved. News 'Fake sheikh' Mazher Mahmood: Bribe allegation 'completely untrue' Former News of the World journalist Mazher Mahmood tells the Leveson inquiry allegations he attempted to bribe Sunday Times staff to alter copy in 1988 are 'completely untrue' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Women's groups condemn 'harmful' stereotypes in media Representatives of Equality Now, End Violence against Women, Object and Eaves Housing for Women tell the Leveson inquiry the press must take greater responsibility for the portrayal of women By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Johann Hari declines invitation to return to Independent Former Independent columnist and interviewer Johann Hari has announced on his blog that he will not take the newspaper up 'on their kind offer' to return to the title By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: alancleaver_2000 on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Editors and executives to appear before privacy committee Representatives of the Mirror, the Telegraph and the Times to give evidence to the joint committee on privacy and injunctions By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Managing editor of Washington Post to move to WSJ Digital Managing editor of the Washington Post Raju Narisetti has been appointed as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Ofcom: ITV errors 'significant breach of audience trust' An investigation by Ofcom into video game footage 'mistakenly included' in an ITV documentary has found the broadcaster was in breach of its factual programming rules By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
Credit: Nigel Chadwick on Geograph. Some rights reserved. News Mail bid to block anonymous Leveson witnesses refused Lord Justice Toulson refuses Associated Newspapers' application for a judicial review of Lord Leveson's decision 'in principle' to accept evidence from anonymous journalists to the public inquiry By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Google-sponsored Data Journalism Awards open to entries The awards, run by the Global Editors Network, will offer six cash prizes with a total fund of €45,000 (£37,600) By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
Credit: ITV News News ITV News announces two new 'specialist editors' Two new editors for ITV News to lead coverage on Europe and social affairs, following similar appointments last year By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
