The editor of the Guardian has told an inquiry into journalistic standards the phone hacking scandal exposed a failure in the way society holds those in power to account.

SCOTLAND Yard has defended its attempt to force the Guardian to reveal its sources for stories relating to the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

This is very amusing indeed. Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, writing in the New York Review of Books, about the Tesco libel case against The Guardian. Several thousand words and some reasonable points made. But, but: The story over which The Guardian came to grief involved a program launched by Tesco in 2006 to raise

From a press release issued today New Statesman magazine has appointed Emily Mann is its new deputy editor. It has also appointed Mehdi Hasan as its new senior editor (politics). Emily is a former chief sub-editor of the New Statesman and, most recently, has been on the staff of the Guardian, working on the Guardian Review. She

The Guardian this morning informs me that Rupert Murdoch telephones Sunday Times Editor John Witherow weekly to find out what's going in. Wouldn't he be better off just reading the paper? Or is this a new service he's testing for the ultra-rich, where you can phone a newspaper editor and chat about the news for

The Case Against Andy Coulson continues to be analysed in the less Conservative friendly newspapers - notably the Guardian and Independent. Coulson, Cameron's now press chief and former News of the World editor, is the man currently at the heart of the story - always a bad position for someone whose job should keep them directing rather than starring in the drama - but both the Guardian and Indepe...

A nimble two-step from The Guardian: 1. Polly Toynbee sends tweet encouraging all and sundry to take part in an open-access online poll being run by the BMJ. 2. The Guardian reports result of said BMJ poll. Then only thing missing, alas, is: 3. The Guardian then realises that reporting a voodoo poll which its

Nick Davies, the Guardian journalist who exposed the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World, has blamed his own bosses for the vagueness of the paper's climb-down over Milly Dowler.

I ask because there's a bit of a moan piece in today's New York Times, entitled Who leaked to The Guardian and Why, with respect to reports that the new Obama administration is willing to talk to Hamas. Most of the American newspapers are busily denying that there is any fundamental change in policy - but the NYTimes piece also notes that it was the Guardian that broke the news that Hillary

Most amusing. The assistant comment page editor at The Guardian complains that he’ll be hard hit, as the father of five, by the changes in child benefit. Just to let you know, assistant comment page editor is quite a senior position. So let, us now deploy one of the guardianistas favourite arguments about, say, tax credits. That they