"American journalists … regard themselves as members of a respectable profession – like lawyers or bankers. Their British counterparts generally prefer the idea that they are outsiders."

Brian Cubbison of the Syrcuse Post-Standard takes up my challenge for an American journalist to respond to the Iain Martin’s criticism of American headline style. Must read, funny stuff.

Roy Greenslade: "The situation is very different in Britain, of course, where there has long been a division of content between national papers and the regional press. Our local papers already focus on what’s happening in their areas. That’s their raison

A important case with major implications for US journalists sued under English libel law is working its way through the US courts, but few people are paying any attention to it…

"New York [state]’s highest court decided Thursday a state law can’t help a Manhattan author block a libel verdict brought against her in [the High Court in] London by a Saudi billionaire over her book ‘Funding Evil’"

"Russell Baker from Amazon … was tight-lipped about when the device is likely to go on sale in the UK but suggested that it would come here eventually - unlike the Sony Reader."