The escalating row between Harriet Harman and the Daily Mail over her links to a paedophile campaign group in the 1970s was cranked up a notch today after she tweeted one of the website’s stories showing a 12-year-old girl wearing a bikini with the comment: “Would you take lessons from the Daily Mail?”

Blue-chip companies accused of using private investigators to illegally obtain information about members of the public should be brought before the Crown Courts to face unlimited fines, the Information Commissioner has said.

For a guardian of the nation’s privacy, Christopher Graham is having to grow used to incursions into his own personal space as the public confronts him on buses and in hotel lobbies with concerns over the safety of their intimate details.

The UK’s first digital network dedicated to broadcasting “uncensored” talk radio and provocative comedy has been launched, after signing up star names including Richard Herring.

From the very start it seemed a brave if not entirely rash move by CNN when three years ago it hired a British news man known only to Americans for a tabloid talent show to take the primetime spot on its network that for more than a generation had been occupied by the iconic but retiring Larry King. Now it is admitting it was an error.

Despite his reputation for colourful language in the heat of the Daily Mail newsroom, it’s not every day you hear Paul Dacre making a sexual reference in public, let alone in church.

Nearly three years ago, I investigated a television news-fixing scandal that led to the BBC making a global apology to viewers. It had screened documentaries made by a London TV company that was earning millions of pounds from clients featured in the programming.

The Government will today tell both Houses of Parliament that it is making a climb down on controversial plans to remove key powers from the media regulator, Ofcom, and hand them to the Secretary of State for Culture.

The DJ Dave Lee Travis is to face a retrial on further charges of indecent and sexual assault, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

Tony Hall, the Director General of the BBC, is set to issue a stinging rebuke to the corporation’s former chairman Michael Grade and other critics of the organisation’s licence fee funding model.

After 47 years as an audio network, Radio 1 will begin a new life as a televisual medium in May when it moves on to the BBC’s iPlayer.

Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks knew nothing about a contract the newspaper had with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, she has told the Old Bailey.

In the days of punk, young publishers operating from bedrooms and kitchens would design and distribute their print creations with little more than a block of paper, a typewriter, a photocopier and a stapler.

The Independent has unveiled a unique app based on reader feedback that combines the best of newspaper design with digital interactivity, making the most of tablets or smartphone technology. The app is available to download on iPad and Kindle Fire today with  iPhone and Android to follow.