It used to be that unless you had travelled the well-worn path of local newspaper to regional and thence to national, possibly with excursions and diversions to a news agency or glossy mag en route, you were always regarded as something of a second-class citizen in the hierarchy of the media. Read the full story

James Murdoch has quit the boards that oversee The Sun and The Times, according to the London Evening Standard, which says his resignations have been confirmed by Companies House filings. Read the full story

Are times tough at the Times? The paper today announced it is to cut 100 editorial jobs from a workforce of 700. The Sunday Times is also set to say farewell to some colleagues. The cutbacks are targeted at “casual” staff, and although Times’ owners hope staff will take voluntary redundancy, compulsory cuts haven’t been ruled out. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade has hit out at ex-Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who criticised a”vindictive” media for helping to bring him down. “When diggers dig, they make a mess,” Greenslade reminds Fox. And why do they dig? “Because their editors believed the public had a right to know why an elected MP and member of the government was being trailed around the world by an unelected, unsalaried man without any official role.” Oooh, snap. (Source: MediaGuardian)

The phone hacking scandal rumbles on, like an ever-present thundercloud hanging over the Murdoch HQ. A News International lawyer has claimed that hacking was “more widespread”, and that NI knew about it because he told them. Lawyer Julian Pike told the BBC that, in 2008, his firm informed NI that “there was a powerful case to support [the existence of] a culture of illegal accessing of information to get stories”. The storm clouds darken, no doubt. (Source: The Drum)

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Writing in last week’s FT Weekend Magazine, Brian Cathcart (professor of journalism at Kingston University) wrote an acidic piece called ‘The ordeal of Christopher Jefferies’. Read the full story

News International has announced plans to sell its Wapping site, ending a 25-year stay of the headquarters of its UK operations. Read the full story

It’s official: Rupert Murdoch is no longer Britain’s biggest press baron. Read the full story

The phone hacking scandal boosted the daily broadsheet market in July but it was the i newspaper that caught the eye as it overtook its senior title, the Independent, for the first time. Read the full story

The Sun, the Times and the News International websites were the subject of a co-ordinated hacking attack last night, resulting in the Sun‘s website redirecting viewers to a spoof story of Rupert Murdoch’s suicide. Read the full story