Newspaper news from 10 September 2010

Media Monkey: The great wall of Wapping wobbles (Media Guardian)
Hot off the Twittersphere: the Times paywall has fallen down.

Daily Mail indulges in hypocrisy in its Wayne Rooney reporting (Media Guardian)
I can do no better than repeat verbatim this item by the Press Gazette's entertainingly acerbic diarist, Grey Cardigan:The Daily Mail's take on the Wa...

Kay Burley accused of being 'a bit dim' by Labour MP Chris Bryant (Media Guardian)
Sky News presenter has on-air spat with MP during interview about News of the World phone-hacking storyHer abrupt style has reduced C-list celebrities...

Club ban on press photographers quietly lifted (Hold the Front Page)
Low-key end to football accreditation row...

Ex-Crain's boss Brauner back in editor's chair (Hold the Front Page)
Comeback for former regional press news chief...

South Wales Echo editor Mike Hill quits for university role (New Statesman)
Hill will take up a new senior post at the University of Wales in Newport....

Phone hacking: full list of the victims identified so far. As a spreadsheet (Media Guardian)
The News of the World phone hacking scandal affected thousands, but so far only a few of them are known.

ABCs: Times drops below 500,000 as all titles suffer falls (Press Gazette)
The average daily circulation of The Times dropped below half-a-million in August as all national newspapers suffered a year-on-year decline in sales....

August ABCs: The Times slips below 500,000 for first time in 15 years (Media Guardian)
News International flagship sinks towards pre-price war level in a grim month for the quality daily papersThe Times's circulation fell below 500,000 l...

How the Koran-burning pastor became an international story (Media Guardian)
Is the media responsible for having turned an obscure Florida pastor with a flock of no more than 50 people into an international figure by publicisin...