This blog's main business may be politics, but journalism news and issues have always featured strongly as I obviously have more than a passing acquaintance with and interest in the newspaper industry. I'm currently looking after the HoldtheFrontPage journalism website and I've launched a new feature today called Journalism News Digest which rounds up the main stories of the week. Anyone who is in...

Via journalism.co.uk comes this story on an American study which concludes that the crisis facing journalism requires the government step in. Wired says: The news media has a bad case of...

Younger voters may think that Katie Couric asking Barack Obama when he last cried is what journalism is about, but the following offers a glimpse of real journalism as it was once practiced in America:

Over at Journalism.co.uk they carry a report from clumsily-named Voices Online Blogging Conference about the poor state of investigative journalism in the UK. It's been said many times before and it...

Plaid MEP Jill Evans has expressed her disappointment that Welsh language journalism has been excluded from a prestigious EU journalism award. She wants the rules changed to include Welsh language journalism. The European Parliament Journalism Prize is awarded annually to journalists who have displayed excellence in covering major European issues and promoted a better understanding of European ins...

Yes. That's the simple answer but it's taken us two days to come up with that. Well, not strictly true, it's taken us two days to set out the changing landscape of journalism and the implications of that for journalists, journalism and our unions. I've been taking part in an International...

For the first time, this year the prestigious Orwell Prize is open to bloggers: it has previoulsy been only for journalism and books. The changing nature of journalism in the digital age is illustrated by the fact that The Renegade Economist entered a number of YouTube videos for the journalism prize. The purpose of the prize

FT columnist Gideon Rachman mulls over the differences: A lot of American newspaper journalism strikes me as self-reverential, long-winded, over-edited and stuffy. True enough. But then he adds this:Later in my career, I found myself defending a British colleague in Thailand – who was being roundly criticised by some Americans for using quotes from the Bangkok Post, without attribution. I co...

The IFJ has just launched a new Ethical Journalism Initiative (EJI) to empower journalists and media professionals with the values and mission to help restore pride in their profession. The initiative aims to help strengthen press freedom, reinforce quality journalism and consolidate editorial independence. about it here.

The authors of a recent report call upon the government to support journalism, but in that case the taxpayer ought to have a say in what he pays for, writes Christopher Caldwell