Just before Christmas last year, I proposed an idea to give healthy young people with talent and ambition a head start in the media. I suggested that every media company that can, should take on three interns over 2012 for four months each. We’re just about to take our first on and I’ll keep you up-to-speed with his progress. Read the full story

Media Digest now offers young writers the chance to get their work seen by a wide network of professionals, as it teams up with The Daily Blot. Read the full story

Newspapers are guilty of persistently objectifying women, perpetuating myths about rape and sexualising young girls, the Leveson inquiry has been told. Read the full story

The BBC has won the right to interview a terrorist suspect held for seven years without trial after a “ground-breaking” victory over the Government. Read the full story

With all the tough questions being asked of the press at the moment, there might be another tricky one to answer: how do you define a journalist? Read the full story

Guidance to Metropolitan Police officers issued by Scotland Yard is warning of the dangers of “flirting” and drinking with journalists. Read the full story

BBC journalists can sleep soundly after the Corporation’s review into whether its journalists have used illegal methods to obtain information turned up empty handed. Read the full story

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)