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London’s freesheets are now engaged in rubbishing each other over the litter they have been indirectly creating in the city. News International said the attacks on it showed that Associated was “rattled” by the success of thelondonpaper, which recorded a January circulation figure of 436,435 – a rise of 6.19 per cent on December – compared to 400,997 for London Lite, which was up just 0.07 per...

Trinity Mirror has launched five citizen journalism micro-sites as a taster of what could become commonplace across the group's news websites. Michael Hill, Trinity's head of multimedia, speaking at the UCEBirmingham citizen journalism conference today, said that the five sites on the Teesside Gazette were launched at the start of the year. He said 20 volunteers have already agreed to contribute...

Female correspondents working on the BBC's flagship television news bulletins earn £6,500 less than their male counterparts on average, according to figures released under the corporation's freedom of information scheme. The disclosure will support claims of the existence of a glass ceiling for women journalists at the BBC, and will raise questions about the fairness of the corporation's overall...

The Telegraph Group is believed to be looking to axe about 70 journalists as part of its project to create a digital newsroom. Production staff such as subeditors and designers are expected to bear the brunt of the cull, designed to streamline the Telegraph's print and online operations. However, reporters and commissioning editors are likely to emerge virtually unscathed, once the Daily Telegraph...

Free weekly newspapers have been around for years, but the launch of London's third free daily on Monday is further evidence that the public seems less inclined to pay for their news fix. First we had the "price wars", when in the 1980s various newspapers slashed their cover prices to as little as 10p in a bid to outsell their opponents. Now we have the "no price wars", the battle of the freebie...

The woman thrusting free newspapers into the hands of London commuters did not look as though she was on the frontline of a media revolution and a bitter battle between rival newspaper moguls. But yesterday's launch of London Lite, a new free evening paper for the capital, threatens to have repercussions across the country, where venerable evening titles are battling falling sales as younger...

The BBC's head of newsgathering has defended the corporation's coverage of the recent Middle East conflict, saying it was not considered necessary to precede its broadcasts with references to the censorship rules operated by both Israel and Hizbollah. Responding to criticism claiming that the BBC's coverage of the Lebanon conflict has been both too pro-Israeli and too pro-Hizbollah, Fran Unsworth...

Analysts warned last night that there could be a "bloodbath" in the London newspaper market after the announcement that another free daily would muscle in on a crowded market next month. Associated Newspapers said it would start a free afternoon paper, London Lite, in September and scrap its Standard Lite freesheet. The new title would go head-to-head with News International's forthcoming free...

LONDON: When Metro International, a publisher of free newspapers, moved into France in 2002, established competitors cried foul, and some of their workers took to the streets. Four years later, Metro and other freesheets are fixtures of the French cityscape, accounting for one in five papers read in France, and publishers of paid-for dailies are considering free editions of their own. The about...

Muslims in UK blame Islamophobia on the portrayal of their religion in the media, a survey has revealed. An overwhelming 92 per cent feel this is either a very significant or significant problem. A significant number of the other respondents surveyed too think it is indeed a problem, with 44 per cent UK public and 40 per cent Jews saying so. THEIR STORY: It was striking that Muslims feel more...