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Foreign journalists continue to fight for Gaza access

7 January 2009

Israel's refusal to allow foreign journalists into Gaza is placing heightened pressure on local Palestinian reporters to supply news, the Foreign Press Association in Jersualem has warned.

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
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

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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