‘In Mexico, reporters are hunted like rabbits’
It's tied for first place with Pakistan as the world's deadliest country for journalistsAt the end of January I was at the Royal Courts of Justice to hear Jonathan Heawood, of English PEN, speak to the Leveson inquiry about the importance of a free pre...
Pearson reveals profit upgrade and predicts 10% boost in full-year earnings
Financial Times publisher says it earned £2bn in digital revenues last year and £600m from emerging marketsPearson, the owner of the Financial Times and book publisher Penguin, announced a profit upgrade and now expects full-year earnings to be up 10...
Leveson inquiry: OK! editor denies Kate Middleton cover crossed the line
Magazine's front page on Duchess of Cambridge's 30th birthday celebrations did not mislead readers, says Lisa ByrneThe editor of celebrity magazine OK! has denied to the Leveson inquiry that a recent front page about the Duchess of Cambridge "crossed a...
Bloomsbury publishing had a bumper Christmas
Sales of ebooks up 38% thanks to bestsellers such as Heston at HomeBloomsbury Publishing has reported a bumper Christmas with sales of ebooks up 38%.Bloomsbury said it had a "strong" fourth quarter to 31 December with ebook sales up 38% year-on-year, a...
You Can’t Read This Book: why libel tourists love London
In an exclusive extract from You Can't Read This Book, the Observer columnist Nick Cohen presents a damning indictment of how the English legal system helps the wealthy and powerful suppress inconvenient truthsAt their best, journalists expose the crim...
The Ascent of Media by Roger Parry – review
Roger Parry's scholarly journey through the history of media contains important lessons for today's digital pioneersAt first glance, this seems just another media studies textbook for first year students to put on their shelves (while Michael Gove purs...
Are publishers putting the squeeze on bloggers?
There are worrying signs from some quarters that online reviewers are being held to much stricter terms than traditional journalists receiving review copiesLast month Sam Jordison asked here if broadsheet book reviews were "bland, boring and formulaic...
British Library’s early newspaper archive goes online
More than 4m pages, mostly from 19th-century newspapers, reveal that press intrusion and celebrity gossip are nothing new• The British Newspaper ArchiveAs the Leveson inquiry reveals fresh horrors about press behaviour every day, the British Library'...
Sienna Miller and JK Rowling tell Leveson inquiry of tabloid ‘siege’
On fourth day of evidence to Lord Justice Leveson, stars say they were abused, spied on, followed and intimidatedJK Rowling told the Leveson inquiry into press standards that photographers had left her feeling under siege and like a hostage.The Harry P...
JK Rowling ‘felt invaded’ at note put by press in daughter’s schoolbag
Harry Potter author describes press intrusion to Leveson inquiry and says she felt 'under siege' from paparazziHarry Potter author JK Rowling has spoken at the Leveson inquiry of her horror at discovering a letter from a journalist inside her five-year...
JK Rowling’s witness statement to the Leveson inquiry – full text
Read the Harry Potter author's full written statement to the inquiry on press standards
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