News Additional Newsquest Essex journalists to strike next week NUJ members based in Colchester plan to join their Basildon colleagues in a walkout over pay By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Briefing Media to buy UBM medical and farming titles Owner of the TheMediaBriefing expands with £10m acquisition of titles including Farmers Guardian and Pulse By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: Image by kenteegardin on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Campaign proposes 'number hygiene' rules for journalists Getstats, a campaign launched by the Royal Statistical Society, calls for numeracy and statistics to be taught in journalism schools and proposes 'a dozen rules of thumb for journalists' By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
News App of the week for journalists: Blogsy, to blog from your iPad This week's recommended app is one to allow you to blog from your iPad By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
Credit: By Coffee Lover on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News BBC Trust: Radio 5 Live should 'raise awareness' of news BBC Trust's review of Radio 5 Live finds audiences 'praise the station's strength in covering breaking news stories' but says station should do more to raise awareness of this By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News PCC not a regulator, say former and current directors Former and current directors Tim Toulmin and Stephen Abell say body at centre of self-regulation is 'a complaints handler' and does not have power of proper regulator By Joel Gunter • 2 min read
News PCC and Ofcom to appear before Leveson inquiry The witness list for the Leveson inquiry for the week starting 30 January shows a week of evidence from media industry regulators By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News ICO: Notifying Whittamore victims would be 'phenomenal undertaking' Information commissioner rejects call from Hacked Off campaign, saying it would not be possible to notify victims identified by Operation Motorman but he is open to individual requests By Joel Gunter • 4 min read
News Independent.co.uk scores only rise in daily traffic in December Independent.co.uk's average daily traffic was up more than 10% in December while Guardian.co.uk saw a 20% drop in unique browsers By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Newsquest Essex journalists to strike over pay More than 90% of NUJ members at Newsquest's South East Essex titles, which include the Basildon Echo and Thurrock Gazette, have voted to walk out for three days next month due a delayed pay review By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News PA editor: Name mistake 'catastrophic example of human error' Editor of the Press Association Jonathan Grun tells the Leveson inquiry the 'scar' left by a mistake which identified the wrong person in a story is 'still very red and painful' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News App of the week for journalists - Flipboard Flipboard is a great way for searching around for following stories and digging for leads By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
