Credit: by Lewis Whyld/PA Archive/Press Association Images News DPP publishes interim guidance on journalist prosecutions Director of Public Prosecutions releases interim guidance to highlight considerations to be made when deciding whether to prosecute journalists By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
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Credit: alancleaver_2000 on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Jack Straw: we made mistakes over Freedom of Information Act Labour government made an 'error' by 'not thinking clearly enough about how it would operate', former home secretary tells parliament By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News Patrick Heery to be new UK editor for BBC News online Patrick Heery to take over from Gary Duffy as the new UK editor of the BBC News website, with Duffy off to BBC Brasil in São Paulo By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Regional Press Awards shortlist unveiled Society of Editors announces shortlisted entries across 23 categories By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Guardian publishes in Russian, Chinese and Estonian Series of translated articles on Guardian.co.uk are part of a series looking at global internet issues By Paul McNally • 1 min read
News Tom Watson phone hacking book out this week Dial M for Murdoch comes ahead of official select committee report on alleged phone hacking at the News of the World By Paul McNally • 1 min read
News NUJ fears jobs 'massacre' as five Johnston Press dailies go weekly Scarborough, Northampton, Peterborough, Kettering and Halifax are switching to weekly in 'platform-neutral' publishing move By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: Sean Dempsey/PA News NightJack blogger sues Times over email hacking claim In February the Times admitted hacking into the police officer's email account in 2009 and apologised By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
Credit: Dave Thompson/PA News Attorney general to advise MPs on wording of phone hacking report Culture, media and sport select committee will be briefed on Monday about how to avoid prejudicing any future trial in report, which could be published later this month By Paul McNally • 1 min read
Credit: alancleaver_2000 on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News MPs to question Sun, Mail and BBC on private investigators Home affairs committee to look at relationship between media and investigators as part of inquiry into possible compulsory licensing By Paul McNally • 1 min read
Credit: By Coffee Lover on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News BBC Wales union members vote for strike ballot Bectu and the NUJ serve notice on BBC Wales of their intention to run strike ballots starting next weeks By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
