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Report declares Murdoch ‘not fit’ to run News Corporation
A select committee report has said that Rupert Murdoch is ‘not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of major international company,’ and James Murdoch showed ‘wilful ignorance’ Read more »
Simon Kelner: Local papers are the lifeblood of communities
A respected media analyst told a committee of MPs not long ago that up to half of the UK’s local papers could close by 2014. Journalism has a bad reputation at the moment, but we’ll miss it if it’s not there Read more »
Fears of jobs losses as five Johnston Press dailies go weekly
The National Union of Journalists fears ‘a massacre of journalists’ jobs’ at Johnston Press after the publisher announced that it is converting five of its daily newspapers into weekly publications Read more »
Tabloids will only survive online, says Graham Johnson
‘The Only Way Is Ethics – Newspapers After Leveson’: Graham Johnson, former Sunday Mirror Investigations Editor says that tabloid newspapers will not survive under a new regulatory system
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Statutory regulation of the press is not the answer, says Simon Kelner
Journalism Foundation CEO Simon Kelner addressed The Westminster Media Forum this afternoon as part of a discussion on the priorities for future press regulation in the UK. Read more »
News Corporation’s hacking bill exceeds £100m
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch’s News Group newspapers paid out over £300,000, bringing their total bill for the phone hacking scandal to a reported £125m Read more »
Simon Kelner: Smartphones and Arsenal in deepest Tanzania
Simon Kelner was in Tanzania last week to investigate support for the Daraja project which publishes two newspapers in Iringa and Njombe
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Mark Borkowski: The death of print journalism will open new opportunities
Mark Borkowski, one of the UK’s leading publicists, says that as print media declines, the hard-bitten skills of journalism must be passed on to a new generation Read more »
Photography exhibition honours murdered Mexican journalists
Aid agency CAFOD launches photography exhibition in collaboration with The Guardian and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) commemorating Mexican reporters who have been killed since 2000 Read more »