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Local newspapers’ crisis: is hyperlocal journalism the answer?

Roy Greenslade presents, after a short break, a further extract from What do we mean by local?. It's taken from chapter by David Baines

Johnston Press takes print ad hit as digital revenues rise

Regional publisher reports ad revenue fall of 9% and announces partnership with used car sales portal. By Mark Sweney

How Bitly mapped Britain’s news websites for us

Which news sites are read disproportionately highly across Britain? See how Bitly mapped Britain

Life is tweet, says John Prescott, as Twitter reaches 10m milestone in UK

Former deputy prime minister says UK tweeters have finally helped to make press barons accountable

Rebekah Brooks’s missing BlackBerry message puzzles IT experts

Sample of computer forensics experts dispute how 'message from David Cameron' could have been lost in copying process

Local newspapers’ crisis: ex-editor on how to reverse decline

Roy Greenslade presents an extract from What do we mean by local? in which former Hull Daily Mail editor John Meehan offers a blueprint for the industry's future

Leveson inquiry obsessed with print, claims Mail Online publisher

Martin Clarke says inquiry should deal with issues facing newspaper sites and more regulation would threaten their future. By Lisa O'Carroll

Having shed Sly Bailey, life at Trinity Mirror can only improve

Dan Sabbagh: It needs to confront the challenges facing its regional papers and beef up its digital offering

Christian Science Monitor enjoys online success after three years

US paper grows web traffic and sells more of its weekly print edition

ABCs: Independent overtakes Mirror Group Digital

Independent now fifth-largest national newspaper website in UK, according to latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures. By Mark Sweney

Financial Times passes 2m users for its HTML5 web app

Mobile now driving 12% of subscriptions to the newspaper's digital offering. By Stuart Dredge

Huffington Post’s Pulitzer prize win marks a turning point for journalism

Emily Bell: Only six years ago it would have been unthinkable that a website would be celebrated in this way

Digital age is making newspaper editors redundant in more ways than one

Peter Preston: the digital-first era is putting local newspaper editors out of a job – and in the world of 24-hour comment and Twitter, is there a need for them at national level?

Mail Online editor says site will break even this year

Martin Clarke also rejects claims website focuses on stories that will be picked up by Facebook, Google or Drudge. By Mark Sweney

Google and Twitter can’t police web content, says attorney general

Dominic Grieve agrees that privacy injunctions should be served on internet companies, but warns of 'excessive regulation'. By Josh Halliday

Johnston Press chief eyes price rises and Mumsnet model

Ashley Highfield outlines plans to cut costs and raise digital presence in message to staff. By Mark Sweney

Don’t take me to your leader: the Pulitzer and the lost art of editorials

Dan Gillmor: No wonder the Pulitzer committee withheld any award for editorials this year. With rare exceptions, they're verbal Valium

The readers’ editor on… fixing and footnoting erring articles as soon as possible

Chris Elliott: Open door: Editors, section heads and senior production staff have a wider responsibility to act, if they judge that there is a clear error

Blog’s away… I’m taking a short break

Back on 25 April after a Californian holiday

DNAinfo.com: a local story with big implications

Martin Dunn: It may be news to the doomsayers, but this proves you can build a sound digital media business on rigorous beat reporting

Twitter hoaxer comes clean and says: I did it to expose weak media

Tommaso De Benedetti faked the identities of world leaders and fooled editors into publishing false stories

News International sues ‘News of the World Online’ website

News Group files claim against lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano and company using News of the World name. By Mark Sweney

Tighter privacy laws would only serve the rich and powerful

John Kampfner: The report by MPs on privacy talks of the importance of free expression, but the measures it proposes fly in the face of that

Google should be forced to censor search results, say MPs

Report by MPs criticises Google for its 'totally unconvincing' objection to requests to filter its search results

Even when everything – news, films, music – is free, some want to pay

There's an increasing recognition among groups of consumers that some products are worth supporting financially

Newspapers should be wary of link-ups with digital brands

Peter Preston: Engaging with your audience is a step forward, but pinning your survival on Facebook, Twitter or Google could be a big step back

The shocking thing about the Mail Online’s sidebar of shame

Andrew Brown: The Mail's website appropriates the holier-than-thou prurience of the defunct News of the World, but to what financial end?

Privacy injunctions to get clean bill of health from parliament

After Ryan Giggs privacy issue, report by special committee of MPs and peers to recommend UK does not need privacy law. By Josh Halliday

Johnston Press’s Ashley Highfield rules out Times-style paywall

Chief executive says he is targeting digital ad revenue and outlines plan for paid-for iPad apps. By Mark Sweney

Google to be criticised by MPs over links to controversial content

Search engine to be censured by committee next week over slowness to remove content such as Max Mosley orgy video. By Dan Sabbagh

Broadcasters often at fault over ‘media scrums’ at news events, says PCC

Director of communications says PCC guidance issued at the height of major news events was an important restraint. By Ben Dowell

New York Times to halve amount of web articles that can be viewed for free

Paper's online users can now access only 10 free stories a month rather than 20. By Mark Sweney

Trinity Mirror to launch paid-for tablet editions

Newspaper publisher to launch tablet editions of the Daily Mirror, Daily Record and key regional titles this summer. By Mark Sweney

Newspapers are America’s fastest-shrinking industry

White House analysis shows printed press at the bottom of the industrial list

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