News Google sponsors IPI digital journalism contest with £1.7m grant Grant will help support the IPI's News Innovation Contest, which funds new ways to inform communities using digital technology in Europe, Africa and the Middle East By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News INM has 'moral obligation' to help Sunday Tribune staff, says NUJ Journalists who face six-month wait for redundancy payment will attend rally today to call for ex-gratia help from Independent News & Media By Paul McNally • 1 min read
News STV hails 'excellent start' for hyperlocal network Announcing financial results for 2010, Scottish broadcaster said it was on track to add more hyperlocal sites in the rest of Scotland over the next 18 months By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News Kyiv Post libel case thrown out by high court judge Newspaper will keep a block on UK traffic – put up in protest at UK libel law – in place for the meantime By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News January ABCes: Metro debuts with 5.85m monthly unique users UK freesheet has published online traffic figures for the first time, revealing that half its users are overseas By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News Eric Pickles calls on local councils to give bloggers access to meetings Local government minister Bob Neill has written to all councils calling on them to adopt a more 'modern day approach' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News BBC claims to have new evidence of illegal tabloid practices Radio 4 programme reports that the methods used by private eyes on behalf of journalists go far beyond phone hacking By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News New site aims to expose practice of 'churnalism' Churnalism.com, launched by the Media Standards Trust, allows the public to compare press releases with more than three million articles from the last three years By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Hyperlocal pioneer TBD.com downsizes after just six months Some of the Washington DC news and community site's 23 in-house staff will be transferred to sister site WJLA.com and the rest have been invited to reapply for eight jobs By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News 'Bold and brave' Sky News takes top prize at television journalism awards Channel was praised by judges for showing 'a new and exciting commitment to foreign coverage' By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Senior Met officers dined with News of the World editors shortly after phone-hacking arrests Newly-released records show that senior officers dined with editors at the newspaper a month after royal correspondent Clive Goodman was arrested By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Trinity Mirror's MEN purchase helps take online traffic beyond 8m Publisher's network of online regional sites recorded a 40 per cent increase in monthly unique browsers on the first half of 2010 By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
