TWO NAMES have been doing the rounds as the global newspaper business casts around for knights in shining armour to save them from an uncertain future. The first is Alexander Lebedev, the former KGB agent who recently bought London's Evening Standard newspaper from the Daily Mail & General Trust for the princely sum of $1...

This report is the culmination of industry research and regular events involving executives, journalists, academics and commentators, and aims to build an accurate picture of the extent and pace of industry change, to manage that change for the benefit of the whole industry and journalists in particular. How will newsrooms look? How will journalists? jobs...

This is the 2008 edition of the Alliance's annual report into the state of press freedom in Australia, and reports some promising developments over the past twelve months.