Credit: Image from Parliament TV News Jeremy Hunt: 'The idea I was backing BSkyB bid is laughable' In a statement to the House of Commons, culture secretary Jeremy Hunt dismissed accusations 'there was a back channel through which News Corporation was able to influence decisions' in relation to its bid for BSkyB By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Google Currents: Five UK publishers hit 100K in two weeks NME has 115,000 subscribers to the new Google Currents news reader app for iOS and Android while the Guardian has 163,000 subscribers. By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: David Jones/PA News Sky News apologises for 'briefly revealing' rape victim name Sky News confirms name of rape victim was accidentally revealed 'despite heavy redaction', but that real-time viewers 'would not have noticed' By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Reed forecasts another year of profit and revenue growth Growth in data services, online subscriptions and exhibitions offsetting the decline in print advertising revenue, group says By Paul McNally • 1 min read
News Press+ positioning itself to target Google One Pass customers Press+, which has seen a dramatic increase in websites using its technology to charge readers for metered access, seizes the opportunity of the closure of Google One Pass By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: By Mike Knell on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News James Murdoch: Contact with Hunt's office during BSkyB bid was not 'covert' Leveson inquiry hears that News Corporation was 'receiving feedback' from the office of culture secretary Jeremy Hunt during News Corp's BSkyB bid, including messages that he was 'keen to get to same outcome' By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Fleet Street Blues apologises to X-Factor judge Tulisa's PR firm Journalism blog says sorry for post on 'PR ethics' which could have wrongly implied that agent had 'the aim of deliberately misleading the public' By Paul McNally • 1 min read
Credit: Tim Ireland/PA News James Murdoch: I did not 'storm' into Independent Former News International chairman admits using 'colourful language' to confront Simon Kelner over poster campaign By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: By John C Thompson on Flickr. All rights reserved News Neal Mann (@fieldproducer) to join WSJ as social media editor Former digital news editor at Sky News to start in UK but will cross the Atlantic when visa permits By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Data Journalism Handbook to launch this week The free guide to working with data includes input from Paul Bradshaw of Birmingham City University and Martin Rosenbaum of the BBC By Tom Rouse • 1 min read
Credit: David Jones/PA News Ofcom to investigate Sky News over email hacking Ofcom confirms investigation as head of Sky News John Ryley appears before the Leveson inquiry, weeks after the broadcaster admitted to hacking emails on two occasions By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Jobs at risk following Northcliffe shake-up in Stoke-on-Trent Threat of job cuts as 'comprehensive review of business' undertaken at the Sentinel By Tom Rouse • 1 min read
