THE SCHEDULE
POLITICS
The Conservatives
Brooks Newmark and a malicious sting
Style Counsel on the dangers of older men and young women
A breakfast of humble pie
Cameron's tax cut numbers crunched
Cameron's reshuffle
Cameron's holidays
The election audit
How did the Press measure up covering the local and European elections? Was it fair and impartial?
The Miller Tale
The exchange of letters, reaction, the IPSA judgment, the 32-second apology, the "Leveson" telephone call
The Mail and the 'apologists for paedophiles'
Forty years on: Harman, Hewitt and the paedophiles
Mail throws a Violet Elizabeth Bott tantrum and finds some leftie friends
Hattie capitulates and the bully wins
Hewitt apologises and the Sun pitches in
Education
A-level success is a cause for celebration, so please stop moaning about girls in strappy tops
Mutilated, missing and murdered. Yes women are in trouble - for wanting to go to university
Grammar schools are not a middle-class preserve
Immigration
Too many scare stories and too few facts
A year of trying to keep those foreigners out of our country, stealing our wallets, jobs and benefits
The Express and immigration - time for some maths lessons
A bear called Paddington sends a political message
First World War
Poppymania
Editor's blog on the international commemorations
Last post for the poppies
Scottish referendum
Time for the English papers to wake up
Referendum miscellany
The Queen speaks
The final editions
Austerity
A blue-rinse budget for the older voter
Food banks
CRIME
Sex abuse
The Rotherham scandal wasn't about political correctness, it was about complacency and incompetence
Dave Lee Travis may have been a groper, but he doesn't fit the celebrity sex pest pattern
The teenage "predator" and the "paedophile"
Harry Roberts
A look back at the Shepherd's Bush police murders of 1966 and how they were reported
Lee Rigby
Facebook is under fire for not reporting threatening posts - but it wasn't to blame for the soldier's death
Alice Gross
When murder is the expected outcome, how does that affect our approach?
Rolf Harris
Sentencing of the TV star proves a good day to bury bad news about Andy Coulson
Maxine Carr
Ian Huntley's former lover has paid her debt to society. We should celebrate not curse her wedding
Ann Maguire
It's all over Twitter and Facebook, so do we need to protect teenage suspect's identity?
Stephen Lawrence
We still can't trust the police, says Doreen Lawrence - and the Home Secretary agrees.
Jill Dando
Four men are to be questioned about the shooting of a Serbian journalist on his Belgrade doorstep a couple of weeks before Jill Dando was killed in the same way. Are they linked? And if so, is this news?
Madeleine McCann
Missing - an opportunity to help others
Yes of course we'd love to find her, but that doesn't mean snatching other children from their families
That Crimewatch special with all the new information? You can sum it up as "She's still missing"
Michael Le Vell
All right, 'not guilty' isn't the same as being proved innocent, but it's the best system we've got
You may not like what was said in court, but that's what we must report - not what "should" have been said
William Roache
It's still the best system we've got. And rape cases still never have a happy ending
Mick Philpott
This reckless, shameless man is a criminal, not a product of the welfare state
The death penalty
From Archbishop Latimer to Saddam Hussein: five hundred years of botched executions
CELEBRITIES
Angelina Jolie and George Clooney
Are we playing fair with celebrities?
Clooney v the Mail
Robin Williams
Why do journalists persist in ignoring suicide reporting guidelines?
L'Wren Scott and Mick Jagger
How much more intrusive is a pap shot of a rock star than families of disaster victims - and wasn't the story supposed to be about a fashion designer anyway?
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The art of Sunday editing
Alain de Botton finds a new way to promote his book - capitalise on the death of an actor
Wendi Deng
The secret delaration of love for Blair - that body, that butt, those eyes
Elizabeth Hurley
I did not have sexual relations with that President. Of course you didn't dear, but we couldn't resist the headline
Nigella Lawson
If you're going to go OTT with a one-face front, best not to do it the day before the world's favourite man dies
Gwyneth Paltrow
Isn't it time we stopped slavering over an actress's bum?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Charlie Hebdo
A photograph of a dying policeman or a cartoon that might offend Muslims, which way to go?
Pakistan
More than 130 children are slaughtered in their school, but our papers splash on cheap petrol
Isis
The murder of James Foley
Honour Stephen Sotloff, don't glorify his killers with nicknames and giant photos
David Haines: we're still using those orange-robe video stills. How would he like to be remembered?
Alan Henning: at last, we're beginning to show some restraint and understanding
How did an exclusive report from Mt Sinjar end up on the Sunday Telegraph's spike and in the Mail?
Ebola
The West wakes up to ebola, not because of 3,500 dead in Africa but because of a sick nurse in Spain
Nigeria
A million tweets later, the schoolgirls' abduction finally makes a splash - but what about the massacre?
Nearly 300 girls are abducted from their school, but we're too busy patting ourselves on the back to notice
Syria
Frontline reporting: war correspondents talk about their world at Names Not Numbers festival
Ukraine
Revolution in Ukraine and the threat to the West - a special report from Tony Halpin
Don't fool yourself that Putin will stop at Crimea. He wants a great chunk of east and southern Ukraine. More top analysis from Tony Halpin
Dreams of empire: Tony Halpin on the radical professor who wants Putin to look beyond Asia and into Europe
Egypt
Al Jazeera journalists jailed for seven years for "terrorism" offences
Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Abdullah Elshamy is freed after ten months in prison without charge
Peter Greste and the fight against caged journalism:
Blogs from a Cairo cell, the award-winning documentary, the global campaign and the court hearings
100 days in jail: protests call for release of Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed
South Africa
Was that Obama selfie really the most important bit of the memorial celebration of Nelson Mandela's life?
Philippines
Editors should stop underestimating readers: they are nowhere near as selfish as papers seem to think
Bangladesh
The Rana Plaza disaster and the women who die for our £1.50 t-shirts
A little red sewing machine to guide us
One miracle is not enough
Will safety accord produce ethical clothing?
The ethical fashion maze
GENDER ISSUES
Education
No one minded when boys led the way, but once girls get better results or try to go to university, it's a problem
Feminism
It's a shame to see women disappear from bank notes with the departure of Elizabeth Fry, but does it matter?
A sweatshop splash, the Fawcett Society and a flawed T-shirt campaign
The truth is never pure and rarely simple - especially on International Women's Day
I need feminism because...some women's rights and wrongs
Objectifying women
Why Helen Mirren rather than Doris Lessing? Why Hayley Atwell at all? Silly sexist tokenism is back
High profile chief executive Harriet Green quits - and the Press focuses on her hair colour and fitness regime
The beginning of the end of Page 3?
The Sun sits back and laughs as everyone goes wild over page 3
Cameron's reshuffle and the Downing Street fashion parade
Sinead O'Connor and some friendly advice for Miley Cyrus
Stereotyping
Andy Murray loses a tennis match - and reporters look for a woman to blame
Sisters running in the park with their sons are chosen as a city's "real" family and all hell breaks loose
Transgender
Richard Littlejohn and the death of a teacher
Was coroner right to attack Press at inquest?
Kellie Maloney - sensitive reporting or an outdated view?
Crime
Reporting violence against women
THE ROYAL FAMILY
Prince Charles
Wellies on, gloves off and it's into battle where the politicians feared to tread - at first
Duchess of Cambridge
Fashion faux pas? How was wedding guest supposed to know what Kate would be wearing?
Another baby on the way? Don't bet on it
Prince George
A supplement full of pictures and schmaltz or a bottom nib? Taking christening coverage to extremes
HEALTH & BEAUTY
Cancer
How does the local paper measure up to the nationals when its hospital is at the centre of scandal?
The Sun boobs with its page 3 campaign
Steven Sutton: the Press helped his campaign, but did it help his quality of life?
The Mail claims Sutton for its own
Ashya King and the force of authority
Diet
The slimming business gets bigger every day - and so do we. The DoDo, the 3-day and the 2-day may not help
Anorexia at elite schools - the student's story
Food for thought: will that hot dog kill you?
SPORT
Press Box
E I Addio's blog on the world of sports journalism
Cheerleading
The minister thinks it's for girls who don't want to get sweaty, the papers think its about pompoms. Wrong!
Winter Olympics
Everyone thought Jenny Jones was great - but not, it seems, as great as Kate or Moyes
Kerry Gallagher wins Britain's first skiing gold - ever - but only the Times realises this is a sport story, not a 'blind woman does something' human interest feature
Football
If the game is such a big seller that it occupies a third of a paper's total available space, where are the ads?
Reading Chronicle's hooligan special was a disaster, but at least they were trying to do journalism
Sir Alex Ferguson has retired, that's all. Why all the fuss?
OBITUARY
Rik Mayall
The trouble with death and how to stretch four facts into four pages
Tony Benn
There's a reason for the restraint: a chance to look for the good in everyone
Bob Crow
How soon are you allowed to speak ill of the dead?
The papers show restraint on day one...
...but General Max Hastings comes out with all guns blazing on day two
Nelson Mandela
How even the extraordinary becomes templated:
big picture, name, date, emotional quote
David Frost
The art of the obituary: picking the right portrait to tell a life story
Fred Sanger
Scientists never get the attention they deserve - not even double Nobel laureates
Ben Bradlee
The man who brought down Richard Nixon
Richard Beeston
The Times foreign editor dies listening to his wife reading Scoop. What a man, what a life
Chapman Pincher
The patriotic master scooper who spied on the spies
WEATHER
Smog
Is it going to kill us, should we stay inside? Or is it just another murky day and nothing to get worked up about?
How to write the perfect weather story
PICTURES
Spreads, pictures, graphics, design. A blog on visuals that unashamedly focuses on style over substance
Photographers, an endangered species
THE PRESS
Regulation
Leveson an expensive hiding to nothing
History and hysteria over the royal charter
Parliament, Hacked Off and self-regulation
How regulators work - or not - in other walks of life
From Milly to Moses, how we got to where we are now
Journalists and the law
Trials and tribulations a snapshot from January 2015
Phone hacking
The Brooks-Coulson trial: 19 pages of reports, analysis and background
Editor's blog: Are we seeing justice for journalists?
Scandals engulf police and politicians, yet journalists are the villains
If Nick Parker is guilty for looking at stolen material, what about the MPs' expenses story?
How RIPA is being used to uncover sources and the campaign for change
Credit where it's due: Hacked Off leading light lines up against RIPA
The industry
Why we need working-class hacks
Journalism is not for the elite (updated version of working-class hacks post)
Out of print? Is there a future for newspapers?
Why is it inevitable that change always means job cuts?
Job cuts and job ads, a tale of two newspapers
Another sad week at The Times
Hello and goodbye to Wapping
The night of the citizen journalist
Kate, Maddie and house prices: three months in the Express
The Conservatives
Brooks Newmark and a malicious sting
Style Counsel on the dangers of older men and young women
A breakfast of humble pie
Cameron's tax cut numbers crunched
Cameron's reshuffle
Cameron's holidays
The election audit
How did the Press measure up covering the local and European elections? Was it fair and impartial?
The Miller Tale
The exchange of letters, reaction, the IPSA judgment, the 32-second apology, the "Leveson" telephone call
The Mail and the 'apologists for paedophiles'
Forty years on: Harman, Hewitt and the paedophiles
Mail throws a Violet Elizabeth Bott tantrum and finds some leftie friends
Hattie capitulates and the bully wins
Hewitt apologises and the Sun pitches in
Education
A-level success is a cause for celebration, so please stop moaning about girls in strappy tops
Mutilated, missing and murdered. Yes women are in trouble - for wanting to go to university
Grammar schools are not a middle-class preserve
Immigration
Too many scare stories and too few facts
A year of trying to keep those foreigners out of our country, stealing our wallets, jobs and benefits
The Express and immigration - time for some maths lessons
A bear called Paddington sends a political message
First World War
Poppymania
Editor's blog on the international commemorations
Last post for the poppies
Scottish referendum
Time for the English papers to wake up
Referendum miscellany
The Queen speaks
The final editions
Austerity
A blue-rinse budget for the older voter
Food banks
CRIME
Sex abuse
The Rotherham scandal wasn't about political correctness, it was about complacency and incompetence
Dave Lee Travis may have been a groper, but he doesn't fit the celebrity sex pest pattern
The teenage "predator" and the "paedophile"
Harry Roberts
A look back at the Shepherd's Bush police murders of 1966 and how they were reported
Lee Rigby
Facebook is under fire for not reporting threatening posts - but it wasn't to blame for the soldier's death
Alice Gross
When murder is the expected outcome, how does that affect our approach?
Rolf Harris
Sentencing of the TV star proves a good day to bury bad news about Andy Coulson
Maxine Carr
Ian Huntley's former lover has paid her debt to society. We should celebrate not curse her wedding
Ann Maguire
It's all over Twitter and Facebook, so do we need to protect teenage suspect's identity?
Stephen Lawrence
We still can't trust the police, says Doreen Lawrence - and the Home Secretary agrees.
Jill Dando
Four men are to be questioned about the shooting of a Serbian journalist on his Belgrade doorstep a couple of weeks before Jill Dando was killed in the same way. Are they linked? And if so, is this news?
Madeleine McCann
Missing - an opportunity to help others
Yes of course we'd love to find her, but that doesn't mean snatching other children from their families
That Crimewatch special with all the new information? You can sum it up as "She's still missing"
Michael Le Vell
All right, 'not guilty' isn't the same as being proved innocent, but it's the best system we've got
You may not like what was said in court, but that's what we must report - not what "should" have been said
William Roache
It's still the best system we've got. And rape cases still never have a happy ending
Mick Philpott
This reckless, shameless man is a criminal, not a product of the welfare state
The death penalty
From Archbishop Latimer to Saddam Hussein: five hundred years of botched executions
CELEBRITIES
Angelina Jolie and George Clooney
Are we playing fair with celebrities?
Clooney v the Mail
Robin Williams
Why do journalists persist in ignoring suicide reporting guidelines?
L'Wren Scott and Mick Jagger
How much more intrusive is a pap shot of a rock star than families of disaster victims - and wasn't the story supposed to be about a fashion designer anyway?
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The art of Sunday editing
Alain de Botton finds a new way to promote his book - capitalise on the death of an actor
Wendi Deng
The secret delaration of love for Blair - that body, that butt, those eyes
Elizabeth Hurley
I did not have sexual relations with that President. Of course you didn't dear, but we couldn't resist the headline
Nigella Lawson
If you're going to go OTT with a one-face front, best not to do it the day before the world's favourite man dies
Gwyneth Paltrow
Isn't it time we stopped slavering over an actress's bum?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Charlie Hebdo
A photograph of a dying policeman or a cartoon that might offend Muslims, which way to go?
Pakistan
More than 130 children are slaughtered in their school, but our papers splash on cheap petrol
Isis
The murder of James Foley
Honour Stephen Sotloff, don't glorify his killers with nicknames and giant photos
David Haines: we're still using those orange-robe video stills. How would he like to be remembered?
Alan Henning: at last, we're beginning to show some restraint and understanding
How did an exclusive report from Mt Sinjar end up on the Sunday Telegraph's spike and in the Mail?
Ebola
The West wakes up to ebola, not because of 3,500 dead in Africa but because of a sick nurse in Spain
Nigeria
A million tweets later, the schoolgirls' abduction finally makes a splash - but what about the massacre?
Nearly 300 girls are abducted from their school, but we're too busy patting ourselves on the back to notice
Syria
Frontline reporting: war correspondents talk about their world at Names Not Numbers festival
Ukraine
Revolution in Ukraine and the threat to the West - a special report from Tony Halpin
Don't fool yourself that Putin will stop at Crimea. He wants a great chunk of east and southern Ukraine. More top analysis from Tony Halpin
Dreams of empire: Tony Halpin on the radical professor who wants Putin to look beyond Asia and into Europe
Egypt
Al Jazeera journalists jailed for seven years for "terrorism" offences
Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Abdullah Elshamy is freed after ten months in prison without charge
Peter Greste and the fight against caged journalism:
Blogs from a Cairo cell, the award-winning documentary, the global campaign and the court hearings
100 days in jail: protests call for release of Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed
South Africa
Was that Obama selfie really the most important bit of the memorial celebration of Nelson Mandela's life?
Philippines
Editors should stop underestimating readers: they are nowhere near as selfish as papers seem to think
Bangladesh
The Rana Plaza disaster and the women who die for our £1.50 t-shirts
A little red sewing machine to guide us
One miracle is not enough
Will safety accord produce ethical clothing?
The ethical fashion maze
GENDER ISSUES
Education
No one minded when boys led the way, but once girls get better results or try to go to university, it's a problem
Feminism
It's a shame to see women disappear from bank notes with the departure of Elizabeth Fry, but does it matter?
A sweatshop splash, the Fawcett Society and a flawed T-shirt campaign
The truth is never pure and rarely simple - especially on International Women's Day
I need feminism because...some women's rights and wrongs
Objectifying women
Why Helen Mirren rather than Doris Lessing? Why Hayley Atwell at all? Silly sexist tokenism is back
High profile chief executive Harriet Green quits - and the Press focuses on her hair colour and fitness regime
The beginning of the end of Page 3?
The Sun sits back and laughs as everyone goes wild over page 3
Cameron's reshuffle and the Downing Street fashion parade
Sinead O'Connor and some friendly advice for Miley Cyrus
Stereotyping
Andy Murray loses a tennis match - and reporters look for a woman to blame
Sisters running in the park with their sons are chosen as a city's "real" family and all hell breaks loose
Transgender
Richard Littlejohn and the death of a teacher
Was coroner right to attack Press at inquest?
Kellie Maloney - sensitive reporting or an outdated view?
Crime
Reporting violence against women
THE ROYAL FAMILY
Prince Charles
Wellies on, gloves off and it's into battle where the politicians feared to tread - at first
Duchess of Cambridge
Fashion faux pas? How was wedding guest supposed to know what Kate would be wearing?
Another baby on the way? Don't bet on it
Prince George
A supplement full of pictures and schmaltz or a bottom nib? Taking christening coverage to extremes
HEALTH & BEAUTY
Cancer
How does the local paper measure up to the nationals when its hospital is at the centre of scandal?
The Sun boobs with its page 3 campaign
Steven Sutton: the Press helped his campaign, but did it help his quality of life?
The Mail claims Sutton for its own
Ashya King and the force of authority
Diet
The slimming business gets bigger every day - and so do we. The DoDo, the 3-day and the 2-day may not help
Anorexia at elite schools - the student's story
Food for thought: will that hot dog kill you?
SPORT
Press Box
E I Addio's blog on the world of sports journalism
Cheerleading
The minister thinks it's for girls who don't want to get sweaty, the papers think its about pompoms. Wrong!
Winter Olympics
Everyone thought Jenny Jones was great - but not, it seems, as great as Kate or Moyes
Kerry Gallagher wins Britain's first skiing gold - ever - but only the Times realises this is a sport story, not a 'blind woman does something' human interest feature
Football
If the game is such a big seller that it occupies a third of a paper's total available space, where are the ads?
Reading Chronicle's hooligan special was a disaster, but at least they were trying to do journalism
Sir Alex Ferguson has retired, that's all. Why all the fuss?
OBITUARY
Rik Mayall
The trouble with death and how to stretch four facts into four pages
Tony Benn
There's a reason for the restraint: a chance to look for the good in everyone
Bob Crow
How soon are you allowed to speak ill of the dead?
The papers show restraint on day one...
...but General Max Hastings comes out with all guns blazing on day two
Nelson Mandela
How even the extraordinary becomes templated:
big picture, name, date, emotional quote
David Frost
The art of the obituary: picking the right portrait to tell a life story
Fred Sanger
Scientists never get the attention they deserve - not even double Nobel laureates
Ben Bradlee
The man who brought down Richard Nixon
Richard Beeston
The Times foreign editor dies listening to his wife reading Scoop. What a man, what a life
Chapman Pincher
The patriotic master scooper who spied on the spies
WEATHER
Smog
Is it going to kill us, should we stay inside? Or is it just another murky day and nothing to get worked up about?
How to write the perfect weather story
PICTURES
Spreads, pictures, graphics, design. A blog on visuals that unashamedly focuses on style over substance
Photographers, an endangered species
THE PRESS
Regulation
Leveson an expensive hiding to nothing
History and hysteria over the royal charter
Parliament, Hacked Off and self-regulation
How regulators work - or not - in other walks of life
From Milly to Moses, how we got to where we are now
Journalists and the law
Trials and tribulations a snapshot from January 2015
Phone hacking
The Brooks-Coulson trial: 19 pages of reports, analysis and background
Editor's blog: Are we seeing justice for journalists?
Scandals engulf police and politicians, yet journalists are the villains
If Nick Parker is guilty for looking at stolen material, what about the MPs' expenses story?
How RIPA is being used to uncover sources and the campaign for change
Credit where it's due: Hacked Off leading light lines up against RIPA
The industry
Why we need working-class hacks
Journalism is not for the elite (updated version of working-class hacks post)
Out of print? Is there a future for newspapers?
Why is it inevitable that change always means job cuts?
Job cuts and job ads, a tale of two newspapers
Another sad week at The Times
Hello and goodbye to Wapping
The night of the citizen journalist
Kate, Maddie and house prices: three months in the Express
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