The judge at the tax evasion trial of Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has had to put the brakes on the recently-introduced phenomenon of allowing live tweets from court after a journalist revealed the name of a juror. Read the full story

There is “little logic to what’s happening” at the Leveson inquiry, according to the Guardian‘s Roy Greenslade. Read the full story

The parents of Stephen Lawrence have thanked the Daily Mail for its 15-year campaign to bring his murderers to justice. Read the full story

New evidence has emerged suggesting that the deletion of messages from Milly Dowler’s voicemail account was not deliberately performed by journalists from the News of the World. Read the full story

Hacking ‘ethical’ when in the public interest, says Guardian investigator

When is it OK to hack a phone? A Guardian journalist has defended the “one time” he did so, telling the Leveson Inquiry that it was an “ethical” decision because it was in the public interest.

Investigations editor David Leigh wrote about the experience in 2006, revealing how he had listened to voicemails after the businessman he was “investigating inadvertently left the pin number needed to access them on a print out”.

Admitting to a experiencing a “voyeuristic thrill”, he wrote: “I was not interested in witless tittle-tattle about the royal family. I was looking for evidence of bribery and corruption. And unlike the News of the World, I was not paying a private detective to routinely help me with circulation-boosting snippets.”

He told the inquiry that he had tried to start a debate about the grey areas of journalistic practice following former NoW royal reporter Clive Goodman’s jail sentence for phone hacking in 2007. “Journalists on public interest investigations have to use a certain amount of guile,” Leigh said, as they don’t have the power to arrest suspects or compel them to appear at court.

While the quality press was usually “extremely well-behaved”, the behaviour of tabloids was “upsetting” because “it makes it more difficult for people like me on serious papers to do worthwhile things.”

Lawyer tells of being placed under surveillance by News International

A lawyer for hacking victims told the inquiry that News of the World owner News International had placed her under surveillance along with colleague Mark Lewis. She made the direct claim that Farrer & Co lawyer Julian Pike – working for NI – was involved in organising the move.

“It’s a little bit disconcerting to be sitting next to an apparently eminent lawyer in court and to find out that a year ago they had ordered some surveillance on you rather than write a letter,” Charlotte Harris said.

“If you have a concern, raise it with me, raise it with my law firm, raise it with the Law Society.”

(Source: MediaGuardian)

Desmond gleefully plucks legs off C5 news spider

Channel 5′s news team are up in arms at changes to the its output. A proposed relaunch, due next year, will see job cuts and reporters expected to edit their own footage. All editors and newsroom staff are set to be made redundant, emphasising Richard Desmond’s commitment to destroying the livelihoods of journalists. (Source: MediaGuardian)

More men than women in journalism, notices Guardian

The Guardian has been doing a bit of digging on the balance of gender in journalism. Between the 13 June to 8 July, a team jotted down the bylines of articles in seven daily newspapers to find that the average percentage of female reporters is 22.6 per cent – a miniscule number compared to male journalists, who made up 77.4 per cent of the bylines. The Guardian has made the data available to download for any would-be graph-makers, so feel free to have a fiddle, as it were. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Hello NoW, I’m John Cleese, can I have some money?

Good to see John Cleese cracking some jokes as opposed to promoting car mechanics fixing your “faulty showers” (shudder). Talking to Radio 4′s Mark Lawson, he said he was disappointed that his phone hasn’t been hacked by the News of the World. “I live in hopeful expectation because I would love to get money out of that bunch of bastards,” he eloquently added. We’ve all got to eat, I suppose. (Source: Press Gazette)

HMV goes on-demand

Is HMV giving up on its brick and mortar stores? Well, let’s not be presumptuous, but the entertainment store is plotting a move to an on-demand film service to fill the revenue gap left by people not trudging into the shops. Partnering with FilmFlex, the service will offer titles from over 30 distributors. At least anyone easily embarrassed will no longer have to face a fellow human when purchasing a Twilight film. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Record-breaking month for newspaper websites

We already know that Mail Online is (by miles) the most-visited UK newspaper site. But new figures released today show it’s been a record-breaking month for the Mail, as well as guardian.co.uk and Telegraph.co.uk. October’s big stories, including the deaths of Steve Jobs and Muammar Gaddafi, have driven the growth which saw monthly users at Mail Online soar by 16.85 per cent, to 79 million. Wowzers. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Eamonn Holmes doesn’t fancy early Daybreak mornings after all

Daybreak update! Actually, we know this is getting boring, but given our tongue-in-cheek jab at Eamonn Holmes earlier this week it only seems fair to keep you informed of the Sky man’s position. That position, it transpires, will remain at Sky after Holmes signed a new three-year deal. We promise not to report anymore Daybreak rumours, but just give you the cold, hard facts that we know you’re eagerly awaiting if, and when, they are revealed. (Source: Press Gazette)

Britain’s last major record label has surrendered itself to the French. Well, it’s not quite that dramatic. EMI, home of the Beatles, Coldplay and someone who can’t spell the words tiny and temper, has been sold off to Universal Music, itself owned by French media company Vivendi. Universal splurged £1.2bn for EMI’s recorded music division. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Any parents out there growing concerned at the sounds of Armageddon escaping from the sealed rooms of their adolescent offspring’s bedrooms, do not fret. They’re probably playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which absolutely smashed sales records within its first 24 hours of its launch. 6.5m copies is the latest figure in the UK alone, raising $400m in sales for publisher Activision Blizzard. It makes cinema’s biggest grosser this year, Harry Potter, look pathetic. That only made a measly $80m. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, has climbed on his high horse to trumpet the suggestion of a new Press Complaints Commission. He used his Orwell lecture to suggest a panel of “qualified and neutral” mediators should preside over the new “one-stop shop” for any press and media disputes. (Source: journalism.co.uk)

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