News Strikes averted at Irish Johnston Press titles as publisher backs down on job cuts NUJ has called off a one-day strike at eight titles in response to proposed job cuts and the introduction of the Atex editorial production system By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Photo agency launches annual call to photographers Agency is looking particularly for multimedia skills and applications from photographers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Reuters' Simon Akam takes Guardian international development journalism prize Akam wins professional category in annual awards By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Libel reform groups among nominees for Liberty Human Rights Awards 2010 Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense About Science join the Guardian's torture investigation and Daily Mail's coverage of the Gary McKinnon case on the shortlist By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Dependence on advertising to blame for newspaper downturn, claims new study Report from the Reuters Institute for Journalism suggests advertising model is the main cause of profit downturn, not the internet By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Sales on the rise for Big Issue and other street papers New figures from the INSP show a more than 10 per cent increase in the global sales and readership of street papers By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Die Zeit launches new iPad-optimised site New iPad-friendly site, which replaces the newspaper's previous main site, has been designed with touchscreen devices in mind By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Times Afghanistan correspondent wins Frontline Club excellence award Jerome Starkey was recognised alongside New York Times photojournalist Joao Silva, who was recently injured by a landmine in the country By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News UK libel campaign groups publish new guide for bloggers The guide, entitled'So you've had a threatening letter. What can you do?', contains definitions of defamation, what to do in response to the threat of libel action and what defences might be available By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News BBC scraps news festival in cost-cutting drive BBC spokesperson tells Journalism.co.uk that the broadcaster has decided not to hold any of its major divisional festivals in 2011 By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Former Time magazine bureau chief co-founds news translation service Worldcrunch.com, currently in alpha testing mode, aims to offer translated news from non-English media By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Yahoo and AOL UK join petition to modernise UK libel law Open letter to David Cameron, also signed by Mumsnet and the Internet Service Providers Association, warns that current law is curbing free speech online By Laura Oliver • 2 min read