Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so they used to say. These days, beauty is more in the fingers of the team behind your favourite glossy magazine, a point made expertly with this spoof make-up advertisement for the expensive-sounding Fotoshop by Adobé. Continue Reading

The team behind ITV’s new investigative journalism programme, Exposure, has been left red-faced after it admitted footage of the IRA supposedly shooting down a helicopter with weapons supplied by Muammar Gaddafi was taken from a video game. Continue Reading

Independent and London Evening Standard owner Alexander Lebedev said he had “neutralised” a threat to his own safety after punching a fellow billionaire during a live TV debate in Russia. Continue Reading

While questioning Rupert Murdoch and son at yesterday’s Culture, Media and Sport committee hearing, Conservative MP Louise Mensch claimed that former News of the World editor Piers Morgan had “boasted” in his book The Insider about using phone hacking to “win scoop of the year”. Continue Reading

NMA, which has carved out a niche with its…’unique’ take on reporting the big stories, has been no slouch in covering the News of the World crisis. Continue Reading

Former BBC reporter Michael Cole has hit out at the corporation’s reliance on “gratuitous and usually utterly redundant” pieces to camera in its news coverage. Continue Reading

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has admitted that the search company missed out on “the friends thing”, and is now playing catch-up to the social networking revolution inspired by the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Continue Reading

Across the pond, US journalist Howard Kurtz has raised an interesting point concerning the media’s reaction to the international air strikes in Libya – where is the scepticism from the press? Continue Reading