News Index on Censorship and English PEN call for further political commitment after Straw's support Justice Secretary praises the organisations' year-long inquiry By Judith Townend • 2 min read
News PCC will not regulate blogs without consent, says chairman Buscombe Any form of blog regulation would have to be non-statutory and consensual says letter to bloggers By Laura Oliver • 3 min read
News Cap libel costs and bring in single publication rule, say libel reform campaigners New report from Index on Censorship and English PEN proposes 10 reforms for libel legislation in internet age By Laura Oliver • 3 min read
News SunTalk's Jon Gaunt: 'BBC should be banned from the internet' Thrice sacked radio presenter was as frank as ever at an event last week By John Mair • 2 min read
News La Repubblica calls on global community to fight Berlusconi's libel action Petition has attracted more than 420,000 signatures from around the world to date By Judith Townend • 2 min read
News Journalism in Crisis 09: Kelvin MacKenzie on Eady's 'one-man' privacy campaign Nick Davies and MacKenzie joined lawyers on a lively panel at the Journalism in Crisis event By Judith Townend • 2 min read
News High costs allow 'rich people' to exploit legal system, say media lawyers Lawyers outline concerns with media privacy and libel law By Judith Townend • 3 min read
News European Fund for Investigative Journalism offers grants for 'stories that make a difference' Investigative journalists encouraged to apply for grants grant from a pot of €20,000 By Marcela Kunova • 1 min read
News Most jailed journalists work online, CPJ census finds Of the 125 media workers in prison on December 1 2008, 56 were online journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Insidious privacy laws are strangling British media, says NOTW editor High Court edicts on privacy have left media in 'an unrecognisable place' By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News SoE08: Paul Dacre's speech to the Society of Editors - in full Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre claimed that Justice Eady has taken away newspapers' 'freedom of expression' By Judith Townend • 28 min read
News Alive in Baghdad blogger Brian Conley imprisoned by Chinese police Conley and photojournalist Jeffrey Rae were detained while photographing pro-Tibet activists By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
