What will the world be like a year from now? Left-wing activist group Attac publicized their ideas by printing realistic-looking copies of a prominent German newspaper - dated May 1, 2010. Attac activists distributed 150,000 copies of their faked, eight-page version of the German weekly Die Zeit in over 90 cities across the country. [..]

(Guardian blog) Papers owned by News Ltd, the Australian branch of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, have apologised to a female politician for falsely claiming that she was the person shown in nude pictures they published. [..]

(Pressgazette) Journalism that can make a huge difference to the lives of vulnerable children is being recognised in a new category at this year’s Press Gazette Regional Press Awards. The Children’s Society Award is free to enter and recognises "excellence in reporting on asylum and refugee issues". [..]

(Press gazette)Financial Timeseditor Lionel Barber has told Press Gazette his paper’s new 'two-touch' journalism system will not mean reporters having to sub-edit their own stories. Barber briefed staff yesterday about the FT’s new "web-ready workflow" - prompting reports that the new system would lead to reporters subbing their own stories. [..]

(Guardian) The sight of Alastair Campbell, Labour's former spin doctor, seated in the editor's chair and Tony Blair praising God in its overwhelmingly secular pages appears to have sparked a crisis of faith in the New Statesman magazine. [..]

(IJnet)Journalists across the Arab world are invited to apply for the Samir Kassir Awards for Freedom of the Press. Submission deadline is March 30. Journalists will compete for two prizes of EU€12,500 -- for the best opinion article and the best investigative report, to be awarded June 2 in Beirut. [..]

Women reign at 2009 Goldsmith investigative reporting awards (Columbia Journalism Review) When the team of Washington Post investigative reporters gathered in their editor’s office to put the finishing touches on a groundbreaking series on egregious housing violations in the nation’s capital, one thing caught their attention: all the people in the room were women. [..]

The Association of Journalists and the Press Association of Almería (AP-APAL) have strongly condemned the attack on Salvador Rodríguez Moya, formerly a journalist for the Olula del Río. The journalist, who now works for the Radio Television of Andalucía (RTVA), was attacked while he was researching the death of people at a company of marble. [..]

A judge in Singapore ordered Melanie Kirkpatrick, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, to pay a fine of about 6.000 dollars for contempt of court. The journalist was charged with defamation of the leadership in Singapore. The judge found that Ms Kirkpatrick had shown lack of trust in the independence of the judicial system of Singapore. [..]

North Korean border guards arrested two reporters , with a dual citizenship of Korea and United States of America, at the border with China who were filming on the Tumen river, just on the Chinese side of the border. The two journalists work for an online’ Press Agency, based in California. [..]