News Kent newspaper group withdraws bid for rival titles Kent Messenger Group's bid for Northcliffe Media titles dropped after Office of Fair Trading confirms decision to refer to the Competition Commission By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Sean Dempsey/PA News Leveson rejects call to add tabloid experience to panel Newspapers' appeal for six-strong Leveson inquiry panel to be supplemented by someone with tabloid or regional experience has been turned down by Lord Leveson By Joel Gunter • 2 min read
Credit: By Coffee Lover on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News BBC defends Thompson's 'robust exchange' over cuts Director general Mark Thompson heavily criticised by the National Union of Journalists after he told staff: 'no one is forcing you to stay' By Joel Gunter • 2 min read
News Times records 10% rise in digital subscribers News International to publish monthly digital subscriber figures for the Times and Sunday Times following announcement of 10% boost over the past three months By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
Credit: Nick Potts/PA News Hillsborough families call on Sun to name sources Hillsborough Families Support Group calls on newspaper to reveal sources of controversial story ahead of House of Commons debate on 1989 disaster By Joel Gunter • 2 min read
Credit: Fiona Hanson/PA News Times libel appeal reaches Supreme Court The Times announced in July last year it would seek to appeal a judgment which found the newspaper was not entitled to a defence of qualified privilege based on the Reynolds test of responsible journalism By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Jemima Khan leaves Independent for New Statesman The former associate editor at the Independent has left the title to take up the same role at the New Statesman By Joel Gunter • 1 min read
News Nova24 editor: The situation for Italian newspapers 'is tragic' Luca De Biase, editor-in-chief of Nova24, part of the II Sole 24 Ore newspaper in Italy, tells the conference why the situation in the country "is not good news" for newspapers By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News WEF calls for pressure on Eritrea to release journalists Erik Bjerager renews calls for the release of all journalists detained in Eritrea, as he presents the 2011 Golden Pen of Press Freedom to the brother of Dawit Isaak By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Tory peer Lord Hunt named as new PCC chairman Former MP will take over from Baroness Buscombe next week as the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission By Joel Gunter • 2 min read
Credit: Cernavoda on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Reporters Without Borders to open Tunisia bureau Press freedom group is opening the bureau in a bid to raise awareness among Tunisian authorities of violations of media freedom By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News App of the week for journalists - Photoshop Express, for photo editing on the fly Adobe Photoshop Express is a free app for Android, iPhone and iPad that allows you to crop and edit photos on the fly By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
