The front page of a local newspaper from 1998 made a surprise return to the limelight this week — thanks to the success of the England womens football team in Euro 2022. The front page of the Bucks Herald from September 1998 featured a nine-year-old girl called Ellen who, along…

Both candidates to be the next Prime Minister have pledged to back the regional press. But, writes Newsquest’s Norwich Evening News editor Richard Porritt, the industry can’t rest easy… Most newspapers have a campaign running at any given moment. It could be to repair a falling down hospital, raise money…

This is the photo judges at a publisher’s monthly editorial awards picked as their favourite image in June. Taken by Rob Browne of WalesOnline, it was one of a number taken for an article by the website’s Welsh Affairs editor Will Hayward when the pair went to explore what life…

Journalists, lawyers and educators celebrated a united “fight for open justice” at the launch event for McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists. Affectionately known simply as McNae’s and dubbed “a bible for journalists”, the publication of the 26th edition was celebrated last night at an industry reception at Doughty Street Chambers…

A local news website has revealed plans by local Conservative councillors to disrupt council meetings as much as possible. Wokingham.Today’s Daniel Blackham obtained a confidential document distributed among local Tories which laid out a number of tactics including interfering speeches, accusations of bias and taking credit for the policies of…

While just getting a proper response to a Freedom of Information request can feel like a journalistic victory in and of itself in recent years, a Birmingham-based local democracy reporter has shown how often, they are just the start of fascinating stories. Tom Cramp, who works for BirminghamLive as part…

The identity of a teenager who killed a schoolboy has been revealed after local journalists succeeded in getting reporting restrictions overturned. Three murderers were jailed for a combined 72 years for killing Logan Mwangi, including 14-year-old Craig Mulligan, following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court. Mulligan was convicted of murder…

The revelation that more than 1,400 hate crimes against people because of their sexual orientation had been reported to police in just one year ptompted a daily newspaper editor to urge readers to back a town’s local Pride festival. Richard Duggan, editor of the Oldham Times in Greater Manchester, told…

An editor who bowed out of local journalism after 26 years says he believes much of the change he has witnessed has been for the better. Brad Jones, editor in chief of the Ipswich Star and East Anglian Daily Times, wrote a farewell piece to readers as he brough the…