Press

Letter from the i editor: Something new is brewing

Thursday, 20 October 2011

I was casting around in an attempt to articulate my view that something new is brewing among an ever more disaffected and politically alienated young, and that the Government’s inert response to the current crisis is sorely lacking. Then I read our young iWriters.

Susan Boyle manager accepts libel damages

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

An adviser to singer Susan Boyle has accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages over a claim that he was unfit to handle her affairs.

James Murdoch 'had to sign off hacking payouts over £250,000'

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

He has previously told MPs he was not aware of the details behind the Taylor deal.

Letter from the i editor: "Wednesday is Sven’s Day"

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

I am grateful to Dan Gledhill, the deputy editor of The Independent, for the headline, but as you will see from today, “Wednesday is Sven’s Day”.

Mayor gives backing to Mail editor

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

London's Mayor, Boris Johnson, has paid tribute to the editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, as a defender of press freedom – despite the series of embarrassing exposures of Mr Johnson's private life the Mail has published in the past.

Sir Roger Moore's wife accepts libel damages

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

The wife of actor Sir Roger Moore accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages today over a claim that she lived with a "playboy" while knocking around the French Riviera in her youth.

Letter from the i editor: "First, you've got to get mad"

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

I may have mentioned previously the excellent 1976 movie Network, in which the late, great Peter Finch plays Howard Beale, a broken former news anchor, whose sad descent into madness is exploited by his cynical producer (Faye Dunaway).

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Money men VS the Murdochs

Monday, 17 October 2011

Many of News Corp's main shareholders are planning to vote the founding family off the board this week. Can they bring down a scandal-ridden media dynasty? Ian Burrell reports

Letter from the i editor: I love opera

Monday, 17 October 2011

I love opera. There: I said it.

Celebrities hunger for Rankin glossy

Sunday, 16 October 2011

Photographer's new magazine to hit news-stands

Police commit 200 officers as hacking inquiries grow

Saturday, 15 October 2011

Number of detectives dedicated to Operation Weeting has trebled.

Letter from the i editor: i gives you a voice

Saturday, 15 October 2011

i needs you, and I need you.

Police knew of Dowler hacking in 2002

Friday, 14 October 2011

Police were given evidence that News of the World had access to messages from Milly Dowler's phone – but did nothing about it.

Wall Street Journal faces inquiry into sales 'scam'

Friday, 14 October 2011

Nick Clark: Auditor acts over claims that European sales of Murdoch title were artificially inflated.

Lord Hunt is new PCC chairman

Friday, 14 October 2011

The Conservative peer Lord Hunt, who served as a minister under Lady Thatcher and John Major, has been named as the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission.

Letter from the i editor: A new national debate

Friday, 14 October 2011

The hallmark of a civilised society is how it treats both its very old and very young. Recent decades have seen a great lessening of the under-five child mortality rate which, since 1970, has fallen by three-quarters and since 1990 about 50 per cent.

Press heavyweights come out fighting

Thursday, 13 October 2011

James Cusick: As the Leveson Inquiry into the media gets into its stride, some leading editors have been giving the panel the benefit of their views. They have been anything but apologetic.

Tory peer appointed chairman of PCC

Thursday, 13 October 2011

Conservative peer Lord Hunt has been appointed as the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission.

Blow for Murdoch as key resignation is linked to dark deeds at WSJ

Thursday, 13 October 2011

The crisis surrounding The Wall Street Journal Europe intensified yesterday after details emerged that the newspaper artificially inflated its circulation figures in return for favourable articles to a commercial partner.

Letter from the i editor: What a day!

Thursday, 13 October 2011

I attended the Leveson Inquiry’s second seminar on the “culture, practices and ethics of the press” yesterday – and what a day it was!

Rupert Murdoch man Andrew Langhoff quits in ethics row

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Nick Clark: Senior Wall Street Journal executive accuses paper of blurring lines between news and advertising.

PM condemned over media regulation

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Senior media figures hit out as they launched a robust defence of self-regulation.

Letter from the i editor: Our young brand

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Our second iWriter, Alex Fusco, met with almost the same approval as day one’s Natalie Cox. Although I have to take issue with the minority of dissenting readers who wrote in to say that Alex was only stating what everyone thinks.

Letter from the i editor: Bloody students!

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Bloody students, honestly! No sooner did I write that we had approximately 200 entries each in the Cartoonist Idol and iWriter competitions, than another 260+ students came in with entries to hit the deadline. That’s over 500 more columns to read (gulp).

Letter from the i editor: We’re all Welsh now!

Monday, 10 October 2011

I walked in to a remarkably jolly i office yesterday, exchanged the usual Sunday pleasantries, sat down to open the i email in-boxes, and all hell broke loose.