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Northern Echo staff face pay dock for industrial action

6 January 2009

Journalists who attended an all-day compulsory NUJ meeting at the Northern Echo yesterday in protest at a pay freeze will have their pay docked, according to the title's managing director.

Regionals join forces for Jaguar Land Rover campaign

6 January 2009

Five Trinity Mirror regional papers have launched a joint campaign to persuade the Government to come to the rescue of British car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover.

York Press journalists vote in favour of strike action

6 January 2009

Journalists in the North East fought back at Newsquest cost-cutting yesterday - with journalists at the York Press voting in favour of a strike.

Colin Freeman: 'We had no idea how long we'd be there'

6 January 2009

Sunday Telegraph chief foreign correspondent Colin Freeman has spoken of his six-week hostage ordeal in Somalia and said he had established 'a good rapport' with his kidnappers.

Knitting mag editor: Hobby titles will thrive in downturn

6 January 2009

Niche hobby magazines will benefit from the economic downturn, as readers look for inexpensive ways to spend their time, according to the editor of a new craft title due to launch this week.

BBC journalist retires after disability discrimination case

6 January 2009

The BBC's Northern Ireland health correspondent Dot Kirby has retired after taking a case against the corporation for disability discrimination.

Newspapers censured by PCC for chainsaw suicide tale

5 January 2009
Martyn Hocking appointed new Which editor

5 January 2009
Newsquest closes Wandsworth Borough News

5 January 2009
Free weekly newspaper launched in Merseyside

5 January 2009

Colin Freeman: How to set up on your own as a foreign freelance

1 July 2008

Sunday Telegraph foreign correspondent Colin Freeman - who was freed from Somalia this week after 40 days in captivity - told Press Gazette in July how he went it alone to establish himself as a 'one-man news bureau' in Iraq

Nick Davies: 'From Denmark to Dunedin journalists feel effects of cost-cutting''

6 January 2009

A year on from the release of Flat Earth News, Nick Davies tells Press Gazette about his colleagues' reaction - and how journalism can triumph over churnalism.

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