As print circulations continue to decline, and with publishers desperately trying to work out how to make their online operations generate decent revenues, an ever increasing number of newspaper people seem to now be considering something many previously didn’t dare think FULL STORY »

So, the Press Complaints Commission finally fell on its sword last week, after months of intense criticism over its handling of the phone hacking scandal – the PCC having previously endorsed News International’s official line that one rogue reporter was behind all the illegal voicemail-accessing FULL STORY »

The nominations are out for this year’s Society Of Editors Press Awards, and after a tricky year for News International, at least they can smile at the fact their broadsheet title, The Times, is up for 18 awards in total. That noms tally is only equalled by the Daily Mail, assuming you FULL STORY »

The UK’s Copyright Tribunal considered the previously reported links licence issue yesterday, reaffirming last year’s appeals court ruling that said such a licence is required by all media monitoring organisations, but amending the fees to be paid by said agencies. FULL STORY »

The Independent’s streamlined sister title i – sort of a cross between the Indy and Metro – saw its circulation rise to 240,000 in January. That means over twice as many copies of the i are distributed than the main Indy paper, and it now also out performs rival The Guardian if freebie copies FULL STORY »

To tweet or not to tweet? Tweet now or tweet later? Oh, those modern dilemmas. The Twitter policies of the UK’s two main TV news networks have been in the spotlight this week after both Sky and the BBC issued new guidelines to their journalists about how they use the micro-blogging platform. FULL STORY »

The Daily Mirror relaunched its website this morning. Then it crashed, and they quickly put the old site back up. Which isn’t a great start, though the Guardian’s media man Roy Greenslade got a little look before the crash and was generally positive about the changes, which he calls “a vast improvement”. FULL STORY »

The UK’s three main news broadcasters – the BBC, ITN and Sky – united yesterday to urge the government to ensure plans to review the rules governing the televising of British court proceedings be included in the next Queen’s Speech. That would FULL STORY »

Project 222 is off, or at least so reports The Independent. As previously reported, Project 222 was a secret venture being pursued by News International to launch an iPad-only magazine for the UK market, similar to The Daily, the iPad news magazine launched by NI’s parent company FULL STORY »

Press ethics have been in the spotlight like never before following last year’s phone-hacking scandal, centring in the main on Lord Leveson’s Inquiry (which is still only in module 1 of 4, despite the Inquiry kicking off in November after two months of pre-Inquiry hearings), but also spilling over FULL STORY »

While interested parties galore continue to take to the stand in the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics at London’s Royal Courts Of Justice, across town two PR men have been giving evidence to a parliamentary committee considering the issues of privacy and injunctions. FULL STORY »

So, it seems no questions were off limits at the most recent of several Muppet press calls to promote Kermit et al’s new movie, and Miss Piggy had no problem addressing criticisms of said film made by Fox Business presenter Eric Bolling in the US recently. Speaking on his ‘Follow The Money’ FULL STORY »

News International has launched a new Facebook app around its weekend magazine Fabulous which will offer users unique content during the week. Readers will be encouraged to share the mag’s daily fashion news, photos, competitions, Spotify playlists and weather-based clothing recommendations FULL STORY »

It has happened. If you believe web traffic tracking service comScore, and most people do, the Daily Mail is now the leading online newspaper in the world, the British taboid having overtaken the long time holder of that title, the New York Times. According to comScore, the Mail’s online output FULL STORY »

Reuters recently stepped up its online presence by launching a new channel on YouTube called Reuters TV which airs short-form news and comment throughout the day, with ten themed strands, most covering tech, media or finance topics. The new YouTube programmes involve various well-known FULL STORY »

Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group has bought ChannelFlip, an independent programme maker that specialises in short-form video-based shows designed for online viewing, usually working directly with one brand to fund its programming projects, who get branding in return, and can use the FULL STORY »

News media owners in the UK – from the newspapers to the news channels to the radio station owners – have this week been making submissions to a consultation by their regulator OfCom on media plurality, just how much of the news market any one publisher and/or broadcaster FULL STORY »

It’s thought News International is planning on launching a new tablet-only publication, presumably similar in style to the US-based The Daily which the newspaper publisher’s parent company News Corp launched in the US just under a year ago. The Daily is only available for users of Apple’s iPad. FULL STORY »

So, after possibly the trickiest year of his professional career, Rupert Murdoch has signed up to Twitter, a move which presumably resulted from some serious consideration being given to repairing the Murdoch brand, rather than a sudden festive urge to embrace the social networking revolution. FULL STORY »

The Daily Mail’s celebrity gossip heavy website ends the year on yet another high, with November web traffic figures from the Audit Bureau Of Circulation confirming that the tabloid’s site is by far the most read newspaper website in the country, reaching nearly 85 million unique users each month.  FULL STORY »

The winners have been announced for this year’s CRAPPS – that’s the The Communicative Relations Awards From PR Professionals obviously – an informal and slightly tongue in cheek back-slapping fest organised by 10 Yetis PR and designed to “celebrate the ‘special relationship’ FULL STORY »

Scottish daily newspaper The Herald has added a paywall to its website, opting for an FT.com style system where readers can access up to ten articles a month for free, but after that need to pay a £2.99 a month subscription. The Newsquest-owned Glasgow-based title is the first Scottish FULL STORY »

How about another success story from the world of magazine publishing? They do exist you know! The Economist saw its circulation rise by 3% year on year in the last batch of audited figures and, perhaps most impressively, that includes 844,000 sales in the US, where magazine FULL STORY »

Two very different deaths, those of Steve Jobs and Muammar Gaddafi, both helped the websites of British newspapers score record traffic in October, according to new figures from the Audit Bureau Of Circulation. The Daily Mail, the biggest British newspaper website for over a year now, FULL STORY »

So the great and the good of music journalism and music PR amassed in Shoreditch last night for the annual The Record Of The Day Awards – which celebrate the best in music writing and publicity – with Radio 1′s Huw Stephens doing a particularly fine job at FULL STORY »