Every week there's a new claim from one of Britain's newspapers that theirs is now the most popular website among UK users.

The Guardian was up there for a while, the Telegraph claimed it, and now the Mail.

I suppose when the former White House press secretary wants to write a piece for your newspaper you don't refuse if you know your business.

Nonetheless i can't really understand why the Washington Post are running this article, from Ari Fleischer.

I just came across this nuanced and well-informed approach to the recent upsurge in

Transitions Online is a cracking site devoted to 28 post-Communist countries.

Sadly, due to the complacency of John Sweeney, one of Britain's most talented tv reporters who spent weeks of investigations into the Scientology "church" the BBC has gained worldwide attention but not much admiration for an exciting and committed story. Sweeney's programme called "Me and Scientology" was aired by BBC Panorama on 14 May and it is available online. 

As the story broke last night that Portuguese police were searching a house in connection with the disappearance of British toddle Madeleine McCann, i got a taste of how the rapidity of the news media

Why do many journalists condemn User Generated Content (UGC) as totally useless and poor without realising that they often produce something worse? Journalists tend to think that UGC is complacent, unprofessional and it lacks objectivity. At the same time, they foster their own version of UGC: Journalist Generated Content. Let's call it JGC. It is full of complacency and ignorance, too. Moreover, it is a form of self-delusion.

At the recent British Press Awards 2007, the editor of a British national daily newspaper was heard to say ‘I’ve never met anyone who listens to f**king podcasts

The most recent public exercises of the German politician Gabriele Pauli are intriguing not only from a psychiatrist's point of view but also for journalists: First, Pauli invited Park Avenue magazine to her private home where she posed in Domina style with black latex gloves on and a black eye-mask painted into her face. Then, she started a legal fight about the April issue of Park Avenue when it came out on 28 March.

When John Hooper was still the Guardian's correspondent to Berlin (he is now in Rome) he was very outspoken about one deplorable aspect of the German press. It is known as "the authorisation" of verbatim quotes. John said: "The way journalists are treated in Germany is unique in the Western world. It reminds me of what I have experienced in totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe or in Asia."

I see Tom Kummer, the former LA-based writer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung who made up celebrity interviews and got away with it for years before finally getting busted, is now working a tennis teacher (see the link to an interview with him on the right-hand side of this page).But maybe we'll all (or most of us, anyway) will eventually end up as tennis teachers - or something?The Independent, which, since going "compact" in 2003 has turned itself from a newspaper to a "viewspaper" in at attempt to stop the decline in readership (with some s

Whatever you think of the British tabloid editor who bugged Princes Charles and William, the fact is reporters must sometimes break the law.