In fact it's always timely to be reminded of the fact that journalists are a vital pillar of any properly functioning democratic society. And this is notwithstanding the recent hammering that some parts of the profession have taken in this country over phone-hacking and other illegal activity. The fall-out from Leveson shouldn't distract us from the extremely serious work that journalists regularly do.

In a year when our weather has gone topsy-turvy, former top politicians have ended up in jail and polls show that Boris Johnson could wipe out Labour'...

The debate around the fall of the print media industry has been raging for some time now. TV and radio threw the first punches and the internet went for the knockout blow. Closings and layoffs are now a regular occurrence and it is generally accepted that the news business has struggled to capitalise on the rise of digital.

Independent newspaper editor Chris Blackhurst has warned Lord Justice Leveson is "loading a gun" at the newspaper industry - after receiving letters w...

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The Independent has dropped the pullout Viewspaper, the comment and features section launched by Simon Kelner, with new editor Chris Blackhurst descri...

It reads like a Who’s Who list of the newspaper industry. This is the full list of invited audience for the first of the Leveson Inquiry seminars on...

Chris Blackhurst, the editor of the Independent, has come out in support of the Labour party's controversial proposal to get journalists "struck off" ...

Many of tomorrow's front pages focus on the testimony of Tariq Jahan, whose son Haroon was killed in Birmingham last night. Most questioned how and...

The dramatic pictures of riots in London dominate Monday's front pages, as you would expect, but there is also space for the financial crisis - and in...

When it comes to journalism Rosie Boycott has done it all. In the seventies she dropped out of her maths degree at the University of Kent to become t...