Credit: PCC News PCC confirms planned closure and transfer to a new body The Press Complaints Commission has confirmed it will close following formal approval and that a new body will be set up in its place By Gaz Corfield • 3 min read
Credit: Cardiff University News Richard Sambrook named as Cardiff journalism director Sambrook, who previously worked at the BBC for 30 years, including as director of global news, will take up the role in August By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News Lord Blair suggests two-year ban on police media work There are currently no restrictions on senior officers with access to a lot of information about the police going to work elsewhere, Lord Blair tells Leveson inquiry By Paul McNally • 1 min read
News Inquest opens into plane crash death of AP correspondent Anthony Mitchell was among 114 people killed when plane nose-dived into a swamp in Cameroon in 2007 By Paul McNally • 1 min read
News Local newspaper paid-for iPad apps hit Apple's Newsstand Newsquest, Archant and Northcliffe release paid-for iPad and iPhone apps, ranging from £2.99 to £9.99 a month By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: Tim Ireland/PA News Evgeny Lebedev: Independent to launch new campaigning website Chairman of Independent and Evening Standard Evgeny Lebedev announces new campaigning website to launch within the 'next few weeks' By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
Credit: Archant News Archant operating profit down £4m in 2011 Publisher issues preliminary statement to shareholders showing a 29.4 per cent drop in group operating profit for 2011 By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: PA/Joel Ryan News Marie Colvin funeral to be held in New York this weekend Body of veteran Sunday Times reporter killed covering the Syria uprising en route back to the USA By Paul McNally • 1 min read
Credit: ITN News ITN's John Battle: Footage orders 'undermine our role' Head of compliance at ITN tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme that being subject to 'wide-ranging' police orders for footage 'undermines our role to report independently' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Leveson inquiry: Press and Met in alleged 'trade' Author of report into relations between the Met and press describes accounts of journalists 'trading' with the police by keeping stories relating to senior officers' private lives quiet in exchange for exclusives By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Sir Paul Stephenson: Police had 'very closed mindset' on hacking in 2009 Former Metropolitan police commissioner says force was 'hooked on a defensive strategy' based on an incorrect assumption about the original 2006 investigation By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News NUJ calls on Pearson CEO to 'intervene' in FT pay offer Members of the union working at the Financial Times are said to have called on management 'to meet at ACAS' and try to 'find common ground' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
