In this week’s Press Gazette magazine

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 21 May 2008 at 15:05
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers, New Media, Regional Newspapers

In this week’s magazine:

The BBC has given Press Gazette a preview of new plans for a network of 60 local news websites involving up to 300 video journalists. The BBC’s “ultra local” news plans have previously prompted huge opposition from the regional press amid fears that it will be unfair competition for commercial sites.

We reveal the news weekly which has decided to sack its last reporters.

After the Guardian’s admission that it did libel Tesco - editor Alan Rusbridger accuses the supermarket giant of making “unfounded smears” against his newspaper and urges it to take The Guardian’s “Offer of Amends” and drop its libel action.

Rusbridger also reveals more details of plans to largely merge the editorial teams of The Guardian, Observer and Guardian.co.uk. Describing Guardian News and Media as a “matrix organisation” he explains the new structure and reveals why journalists have to do away with 600-year-old ideas about how stories should be structured.

Journalist Shiv Malik - currently fighting in the High Court to stop police forcing him to hand his notes under the Terrorism Act- writes exclusively for Press Gazette about the “spectre” hanging over the heads of all journalists.

Exclusive interview with Emap chief executive David Gilbertson.

And columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explains why after ten years at the Independent she is “fed up with being told I should be grateful”.

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