Credit: By Dave Radcliffe, Liberal Democrats on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Lib Dems pass motion calling for 'overhaul' of PCC The Liberal Democrat conference passes phone-hacking motion calling for 'radical overhaul' of the Press Complaints Commission, as well as tighter media ownership rules and more protection from libel action By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News WikiLeaks and CPJ in dispute after journalist 'flees' Ethiopia The Committee to Protect Journalists reports Ethiopian journalist Argaw Ashine fled the country after appearing in an unredacted embassy cable, but WikiLeaks says he was named 'in passing' and not as an informant By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News South Yorkshire strike journalists 'optimistic' about talks Members of the National Union of Journalists at South Yorkshire Newspapers show confidence as talks begin with Johnston Press By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Redundancies as Lincolnshire Echo goes weekly The paper today confirmed it will move to weekly publication from next month, with around five jobs at risk of compulsory redundancy By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Michael Bruntonspall on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Guardian: Met seeks court order for phone hacking sources The Metropolitan Police is to apply for a court order next week under the Official Secrets Act, in an attempt to get journalists to reveal sources of phone-hacking coverage By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Tableau latest sponsor of news:rewired - connected journalism Data visualisation tool Tableau signs up as a sponsor of news:rewired - connected journalism By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Financial Times appoints investigations and special projects editor Former economy editor for Bloomberg News Christine Spolar has been named as the Financial Times' first investigations and special projects editor By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Centaur Media records £30m pre-tax loss Business-to-business publisher Centaur Media reports a loss of £30.3 million before tax in end of year results, but records strong underlying growth By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Hunt calls for new cross-platform media regulation Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt calls on media regulator Ofcom to propose new media plurality measures which can be applied across all forms of the media By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Guardian to raise weekday price to £1.20 Monday will see the price of the daily edition rise 20p to £1.20 and the Saturday Guardian will rise 10p to £2.10 this weekend By Joel Gunter • 2 min read
Credit: World Economic Forum on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Ban Ki-moon calls for 'plan of action' to protect journalists In an address to an inter-agency meeting the UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon urges agencies to formulate a joint approach to the protection of journalists By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: NUJ News Newsquest North West staff begin strike over job cuts NUJ members have begun the first of two planned 24-hour strikes over five compulsory redundancies planned across titles in Cheshire and Merseyside By Joel Gunter • 1 min read
