Google to retain Chinese unit after likely closure of local search engine
From Financial Times. Posted March 20 2010, 2.00am
Google hopes to retain a substantial business presence in China even if its standoff with Beijing over censorship forces it to close its flagship local search engine,... (more)

Emap poised to become acquisitive
From Financial Times. Posted March 20 2010, 2.00am
When Apax Partners and Guardian Media Group bid £1.2bn for Emap's bundle of trade shows, trade magazines and specialist digital communities in December 2007, they... (more)

Google aims to retain China unit
From Financial Times. Posted March 20 2010, 2.00am
Google hopes to retain a substantial business presence in China even if its standoff with Beijing over censorship forces it to close its flagship local search engine,... (more)

Weekend briefing
From Financial Times. Posted March 20 2010, 2.00am
Say hello, wave goodbye Adam Crozier, incoming ITV chief executive, is to receive a £620,000 golden hello for taking up his role, the broadcaster revealed this... (more)

Icahn raises stakes in Lions Gate fight
From Financial Times. Posted March 20 2010, 2.00am
Carl Icahn has raised the stakes in his battle to take control of Lions Gate Entertainment by extending a tender offer to all available shares in the independent... (more)

Emap poised to become acquisitive
From Financial Times. Posted March 19 2010, 11.34pm
The group's debt has been reduced and cash freed , making it ready for acquisitions that underpinned shareholders' plans when they first bought the business... (more)

FT.com further limits free content
From Media Guardian. Posted March 19 2010, 11.30pm
PaidContentUK: FT makes free articles inaccessible to non-registered users following a rise in subscriptions, by Robert Andrews... (more)

Former editor breaks sacked social workers scoop
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 19 2010, 11.30pm
Khyra Ishaq exclusive makes headlines across UK... (more)

FT.com Takes Free Articles Away From Unregistered Users, Except Via Search
From paidContent:UK. Posted March 19 2010, 11.30pm
Now the Financial Times is getting really bullish about its web access model. In another tweak, it’s now ensuring that no free articles are on offer to non-registered users. (more)

Classroom fight as Texas rewrites textbooks
From Financial Times. Posted March 19 2010, 7.56pm
America's classroom culture wars broke out again this week after a vote by the Texas Board of Education to rewrite the standards for high school social studies courses in the largest single US market for textbooks... (more)

Tiger Woods's return provokes controversy
From Financial Times. Posted March 19 2010, 7.12pm
For golf and the television networks that cover it, Woods's decision to rejoin the tour next month is an answered prayer: simply put, the game depends on him. (more)

Icahn ups ante in Lions Gate fight
From Financial Times. Posted March 19 2010, 7.09pm
Carl Icahn, the ctivist investor which has built a 20% stake in Lions Gate, has extended a tender offer to all available shares in the independent Hollywood studio... (more)

Journalist makes the news for councillor assault
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted March 19 2010, 5.42pm
A story you’ll find in Newsquest’s Streatham Guardian, but not in its rival, the Tindle-owned South London Press – an extract: A journalist from our rival newspaper the South London Press has admitted assaulting a senior Lambeth councillor at a glittering charity fundraiser. (more)

Graphic Nike advert to say 'hello' to England fans for Six Nations match
From Media Guardian. Posted March 19 2010, 4.53pm
Advertising blitz sees image of freshly stitched wound go on billboards and posters across Paris prior to crucial rugby gameEnglish rugby fans travelling to Paris this weekend will be greeted by a Nike advertising blitz featuring the word "Hello" stitched over a fresh wound. (more)

Keith Waterhouse on journalistic style
From Press Gazette. Posted March 19 2010, 4.37pm
Some gems from the classic 1981 Daily Mirror stylebook written by Keith Waterhouse - who was remembered at a memorial service last week. (more)