Credit: By Coffee Lover on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News BBC details plans to buy news content from local TV licencees Ofcom also opens applications today for the 21 local TV channels to be launched in the UK By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Leveson hears call for news outlets to face Motorman questions David Sherborne outlined two questions to the inquiry which he applied for core participant media organisations to answer By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: jsawkins on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Court reform could lift camera ban, broadcasters say According to the BBC, ITN and Sky News the Crime and Courts Bill included in the Queen's Speech today includes a lift on the ban on cameras in court By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News Mail Online editor: Knox verdict report due to 'human error' Editor of the Daily Mail website Martin Clarke tells Leveson inquiry its article that incorrectly reported Amanda Knox's conviction had been upheld was a result of human error and 'there was no need for it' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Graham Horn/Geograph.co.uk - licensed under Creative Commons News Channel 4 scoops three gongs at One World Media Awards Channel 4's investigation, which prompted a call by the UK foreign office for an independent investigation, won the television and documentary awards By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Joi on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Al Jazeera English closes Beijing bureau after visa refusal Qatar-based broadcaster reports that it will 'continue to work with the Chinese authorities in order to reopen our Beijing bureau', which was closed due to a journalist's visa renewal being denied By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Lewis Whyld/PA News Andy Coulson permitted to appeal legal costs ruling Coulson's claim for any potential criminal proceeding legal costs to be covered by former News of the World publisher NGN was refused in the High Court in December last year By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News Leveson inquiry: Ministers granted core participant status Lord Justice Leveson grants permission to all eight government ministers who applied for core participant status, including the prime minister By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
Credit: Alberto OG on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Operation Elveden: Former Met officer arrested The former police officer, who has been 'bailed to a date in August' had 'previously served in the MPS Specialist Operations command' and 'retired several years ago', Scotland Yard confirmed By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News RSF says 21 journalists killed this year Marking World Press Freedom Day Reporters Without Borders 'condemns the furious pace of physical attacks on news providers' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Sly Bailey to step down from Trinity Mirror by end of 2012 Sly Bailey, who joined as chief executive in 2003, says 'the time has come to hand over to someone else' By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News City-wide news sites launched in Glasgow and Edinburgh STV also plans to launch 'additional sites in the coming months, including a city site for Aberdeen' By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
