So, as widely predicted by all and Sun-dry last July when the News of the World shut down amid a 'phone hacking shame frenzy', to coin some tabloideze, the Sun rose on Sunday for the first time yesterday. The 'on' was missing from the masthead, but it was all deliberately familiar elsewhere. ...

Columnists are playing a much greater role in news analysis. With so many staff cuts (Times and SundayTimes announcing 150 job losses this week) the debate about 'cut and paste' news will only rage on. But newspapers still have to differentiate themselves from the growth of online 'churnalism' ...

With yesterday's closure of the News of the World the consequence of Murdoch's ruthless business reaction to the public outcry over how some of his journalists hacked phones and broke the law, a blatant attempt to try and stop brand toxicity infecting his bid for BSkyB ...

I thought the Guardian Media Group (GMG) had a limitless supply of money all thanks to the Scott Trust which was created in 1936 to safeguard the paper's journalistic freedom and liberal values. A couple of years ago Guardian Media Group even ...

George Thwaites, editor for the last five years of the Mail on Sunday's review section, is leaving the paper this month to set up his own PR company. He follows in a lengthy line of senior newspaper executives who have moved on to public relations, such as Phil Hall, David Yelland, Ian Monk and Stuart Higgins ...

Two Indian newspapers are claiming to have notched up a global first by running "talking ads". The groundbreaking ads, placed by Volkswagen, appeared on the back pages of special wraparounds published by The Times of India and The Hindu. When the paper is unfolded a light-sensitive speaker chip weighing ...

Free daily newspapers trace their history back to the 1940s when in Walnut Creek, California publisher Dean Lesher began what is widely believed to be the first free daily, now known as the Contra Costa Times. Outside the US it didn't really take off until 1995 ...

There is a constant theme (A bit like the drone of a vuvuzela) in all my recent discussions with colleagues in France which has finally led me to blog about the fact that something is not quite right in the current state of the French press. Granted things aren’t exactly ...

The New Labour project spent years courting the traditional Tory press. The Sun famously switched sides to Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell in 1997 and in 2007 Gordon Brown formed a real friendship with Paul Dacre, Editor of the Daily Mail. It is widely believed that Dacre is not a fan of David Cameron’s flashy ...

Apparently it does according to David Miliband at Labour party conference today. “But not the one printed in Wapping” he then pointed out. He’s right of course but is he right to imply that the Sun newspaper is not as powerful as it once was ? All the old Labour ‘Masters of spin’ of course queued up to say ...

Newspapers were the most successful media organizations in the world because they controlled the market place - what music we listened to , which jobs we found and which homes we bought. Now, the most successful media organistions are the ones which build platforms and support communities ...

Can we imagine Sunday’s without the Observer?  This week there’s been a queue of former Editors asking how we could let the paper of Orwell sink without trace. Roger Alton even gushed about how well it was currently being edited (Not sure how well that would have gone down with his office-mates at the Sindy) ...