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Young local reporter wins award for Raoul Moat victim story

Inderdeep Bains, chief reporter for the Slough and Royal Borough Observer wins £500 cash and a week's work experience at the Daily Mail

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14/10/10

Former Bastiat Prize winners in contention again as 2010 shortlist announced

Financial Times' Tim Harford and freelancer Jamie Whyte, who shared the accolade in 2006, will compete against five others for the £10,000 prize

Posted by Laura Oliver on 11/10/10

#WEFHamburg: News outlets need to know more about online display ads, says Zeit Online editor

Speaking at the World Editors Forum, Wolfgang Blau said online advertising has been 'discredited', but its potential has not been properly investigated

Posted by Laura Oliver on 11/10/10

#WEFHamburg: Invest in a more human side, Zeit online editor tells Google

Wolfgang Blau meets with Madhav Chinappa and Peter Barron from Google at the World Editors Forum to discuss the search engine's courtship of news organisations

Posted by Laura Oliver on 08/10/10

#WEFHamburg: Global newspaper circulation fell for first time in 2009, according to report

World Press Trends report recording a 0.8% decline in global circulations last year, the first in the history of the report

Posted by Laura Oliver on 08/10/10

#WEFHamburg: NewsCloud sets its sights on communities of connected readers

Knight Foundation backed startup NewsCloud is an open source technology platform working with Facebook to create better interaction for readers

Posted by Laura Oliver on 08/10/10

#WEFHamburg: Crowd-funded news site Spot.us is sticking to startup roots, says founder

David Cohn is slowly weaning his startup off the grant money won in 2008's Knight News Challenge and building up other revenue streams

Posted by Laura Oliver on 08/10/10

#WEFHamburg: News companies need to be in 'perpetual beta', says New York Times CEO

Digital advances at the New York Times include integrating its website with Facebook and allowing readers to filter news feeds by friends' recommendations

Posted by Laura Oliver on 07/10/10

#WEFHamburg: Paywall will not remove NYT from 'online conversation', says CEO

New York Times Company CEO Janet Robinson says first click free strategy will keep paper in 'open web eco system'

Posted by Laura Oliver on 07/10/10

#WEFHamburg: Die Zeit editor-in-chief - 'Fear of death can be a cause for suicide'

Speaking at WEF Giovanni di Lorenzo disagrees with predictions of the death of print, claiming that 'essential titles in each market will survive'

Posted by Laura Oliver on 06/10/10

Reuters takes gold in US investigative business journalism awards

Murray Waas' report on a health insurer was trying to cancel the policies of cancer sufferers won $5,000

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 05/10/10

WikiLeaks chief hits out at media

Heated debate at City University London sees Julian Assange forced to defend whistleblowing organisation

Posted by Joel Gunter on 01/10/10

Phone hacking investigation makes Bevins Prize shortlist

Nick Davies' Guardian investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World nominated for 'Rat up a Drainpipe' award alongside two nominations for the Times

Posted by Laura Oliver on 01/10/10

Canadian journalism students win Emmy for electronic waste documentary

$1 million donation allowed students to travel to Ghana, India and China to make the film, which won the Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine Award

Posted by Laura Oliver on 28/09/10

Media140 event to look at how journalists can make the most of data

King's Cross event will feature journalist and designer David McCandless and the Guardian's news editor for data Simon Rogers

Posted by Laura Oliver on 27/09/10

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