Peter Preston on press and broadcasting

Does the editor’s £2.5m pay signal the importance of editorial to the board? Or could a million or two of that be spent on investigations?

Reduced in size, but more importantly reduced in ambition, the former Fox/News Corp empire will be a much-changed presence in public life

The site’s curious mixture of serious journalism and juvenile trivia is something you could easily grow tired of, especially if you are an investor

The starkly divergent news agendas promoted in Madrid and Barcelona expose the crisis that state-funded journalism can face when the political stakes rise

In the face of relentless pressure from the right and disgruntlement from the left, it’s no wonder some of the corporation’s senior staff are restless

Johnston Press raised the price of their cheap and independent acquisition, and it looked like a bad move. But now they report profits of £1m a month

Disney ownership of 21st Century Fox would put the future of less lucrative parts of Rupert Murdoch’s empire, including News Corp, in jeopardy