(Press Gazette) The Press Complaints Commission has upheld an accuracy complaint against the Hull Daily Mail over articles describing a local web publisher's links to the porn industry. The press watchdog agreed with Paul Smith’s complaint that a series of stories about him were misleading, however it rejected a series of further complaints made against the regional newspaper.

(Press Gazette) Children and young people who appear in Crown Court trials should have a statutory right to appeal against a judge's decision to allow their identification, the Law Commission has recommended. The proposal would mirror the right given to any "aggrieved person" - including the media - to appeal against a reporting restriction order made during a trial.

(Press Gazette) Plans to give defendants in rape cases anonymity appear to have been dropped by the coalition Government. Instead, according to a report in The Guardian, ministers will negotiate with the Press Complaints Commission to persuade newspapers and websites to allow suspected rapists to remain anonymous.

(All Africa ) The Plateau Criminal Court in Abidjan , the commercial capital of Côte d'Ivoire , on July 26, 2010 convicted three detained editors of the privately-owned Le Nouveau Courrier newspaper over a charge of an "administrative theft". [..]

(Knight Centre) Four journalism organizations are openly opposing a new electoral law, enacted three weeks ago , which they say violates free expression. (Read the full text PDF of the law in Spanish here .) One article prohibits candidates for certain judicial positions from giving interviews to the media. [..]

(Knight Centre) At a time when journalists are targets of organised crime and violence against reporters goes largely unpunished, declaring an editorial war against corruption and drug trafficking seems suicidal. According to Prodavinci’s Oscar Medina , this is precisely the journey upon which the weekly Tijuana-based news magazine Zeta has embarked. [..]

(Ijnet)Print, broadcast and photojournalists from Kazakhstan are encouraged to submit works on health and human rights in Kazakh and Russian to a competition. Deadline: September 5. Potential topics of entries include: human rights in health care; palliative care; sexual and reproductive rights; access to medications; psychiatric health and human rights; minorities' health and human rights.

(Knight Centre) “Betrayed” is the work used in an editorial by the largest Spanish-language newspaper in New York, El Diario-La Prensa, to describe sentiment in the newsroom after one of its journalist pleaded guilty to being part of a Russian spy ring.

(Knight Centre) President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued a decree that created an intergovernmental commission to propose changes to the regulatory system that governs broadcast media, O Estado de S. Paulo reports.

It’s a big deal. Where’s the print coverage? (CJR) Following Senator Harry Reid’s decision to pull the plug on climate legislation Thursday, news sites lit up with lit up with analyses of who was to blame. As well they should; this is a major story. But if you don’t get your news online, you were likely out of this story’s loop.