Evening Standard retreats over tuition fees

The Evening Standard was forced to change its headline this evening after complaints from David Willetts. But student activists stood by to outline the implications of an increase in tuition fees, apparently favoured by the Conservative Party.

Shopkeeper’s Labour “boycott” up in flames

The Express today report that, “Newsagents urged to boycott Labour” if the Health Bill, which would ban the display of tobacco and the sale of tobacco from vending machines, becomes law. But it’s unclear what a “boycott” would mean or where the idea has come from.

Media for all? The challenge of convergence

With a media facing economic and technological changes, many requiring political solutions, the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom is holding a conference on Saturday 31 October which will address key issues of ownership and regulation.

Who can cut the hardest? The narrative firms up

Anyone listening to the Today programme this morning, as discussion began of the Conservatives’ plan to raise the retirement age, could be in no doubt as to how much the media consensus has firmed up behind a virility contest amongtest

Sun’s circulation down 35% from mid-1990s peak

The Sun’s circulation has fallen 35 per cent since its mid-1990s peak. The trend, in keeping with that of other national newspapers, has come at a time when the Internet has become more influential than TV and newspapers. According totest

Marr: I “got it in the neck” over pill question

Andrew Marr admitted this afternoon that he had “got it in the neck” from the members of the Coalfield Communities Federation for asking Gordon Brown whether he used “prescription painkillers and pills” on the BBC yesterday. Marr has also beentest