News Met police press chief resigns over hiring of NoW executive Director of public affairs Dick Fedorcio was investigated by police watchdog after giving consultancy contract to News if the World former deputy editor Neil Wallis By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News More police set to join hacking and payments investigations Staff forecast of 200 officers is the equivalent of eight murder squads, London deputy mayor for policing tells Leveson inquiry By Paul McNally • 1 min read
Credit: Still from Leveson inquiry stream News ITV claims newspapers spent £1.2m on private investigator Analysis of Operation Motorman invoices and notes suggests Steve Whittamore was used by most of the newspaper groups - although not all of the transactions are necessarily illegal By Paul McNally • 3 min read
News Editor changes at Manchester Evening News and other Trinity Mirror titles New editors for the Manchester Evening News, North Wales newspaper Daily Post, Wales Online and Wales on Sunday By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Azerbaijani investigative reporter wins top Index award Journalist Idrak Abbasov and a Syrian cartoonist are among the winners at Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression awards By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News Two British freelance journalists killed in Syria, CPJ reports Foreign Office is looking into reports that two British nationals of Algerian descent were killed in Syria on Monday, with a third journalist wounded in the attack By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Political news site in Stoke relaunches with foundation backing Pits n Pots has been relaunched 'in a bid to boost reader engagement, increase traffic and promote democratic engagement in the local community' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Bayerberg on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Report: 'Spread of rioting helped by TV images of police' Report by Riots Communities and Victims Panel publishes findings, claiming that 'social media and broadcast news services conveyed a loss of control of the streets' By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Orwell Prize 2012 Journalism and Blog longlists announced Guardian journalist Paul Lewis is among those on the Journalism Prize longlist after submitting one day of tweets sent during the London riots By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
Credit: Paul Faith/PA Wire News Press speculation 'hindered' Madeleine McCann inquiry Former chief constable of Leicestershire police said a 'greater understanding of the complexity and consequences of speculation' should be learnt from the McCann case By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Lost journalists documentary hits $50k goal on Kickstarter A documentary that will follow photojournalist Tim Page in his continued search for the stories of journalists who went missing in Cambodia in the 1970s has crowdfunded $50K By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News NUJ asks Richard Desmond to rethink '70 editoral job cuts' The Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday will see sections axed and a number of desks merged, union reports By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
