News Libel reform groups among nominees for Liberty Human Rights Awards 2010 Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense About Science join the Guardian's torture investigation and Daily Mail's coverage of the Gary McKinnon case on the shortlist By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Dependence on advertising to blame for newspaper downturn, claims new study Report from the Reuters Institute for Journalism suggests advertising model is the main cause of profit downturn, not the internet By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Sales on the rise for Big Issue and other street papers New figures from the INSP show a more than 10 per cent increase in the global sales and readership of street papers By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Die Zeit launches new iPad-optimised site New iPad-friendly site, which replaces the newspaper's previous main site, has been designed with touchscreen devices in mind By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Times Afghanistan correspondent wins Frontline Club excellence award Jerome Starkey was recognised alongside New York Times photojournalist Joao Silva, who was recently injured by a landmine in the country By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News UK libel campaign groups publish new guide for bloggers The guide, entitled'So you've had a threatening letter. What can you do?', contains definitions of defamation, what to do in response to the threat of libel action and what defences might be available By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News BBC scraps news festival in cost-cutting drive BBC spokesperson tells Journalism.co.uk that the broadcaster has decided not to hold any of its major divisional festivals in 2011 By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Former Time magazine bureau chief co-founds news translation service Worldcrunch.com, currently in alpha testing mode, aims to offer translated news from non-English media By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Yahoo and AOL UK join petition to modernise UK libel law Open letter to David Cameron, also signed by Mumsnet and the Internet Service Providers Association, warns that current law is curbing free speech online By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Community radio stations struggling to provide regular news, claims Ofcom report Broadcast regulator's third annual report says a lack of funding is making regular news bulletins a 'major difficulty' for a number of stations By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News EJC relaunches profile series on Europe's national media Media Landscape 2010 site hosts 38 country and six neighbour state profiles, including Turkey, Algeria and Egypt By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Johnston Press staff in Ireland vote to strike over Atex system NUJ members at the Limerick Leader, Leinster Leader, Leinster Express, Offaly Express and Clonmel Nationalist voted 'overwhelmingly' for one day strike, says union By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
