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Stephen Glover: These arrests reveal that Murdoch is no longer running the show

Media Studies: The detaining of five senior Sun employees has turned a crisis into a calamity

Ian Burrell: NI's standards committee once looked like a fig leaf. Now some say it's the enemy within

The Management and Standards Committee is being criticised for throwing journalists to the wolves

Ian Burrell: There aren't enough female comics on TV – and the BBC knows it's not funny

Viewpoint: The Sarah Millican Show will be the first comedy-entertainment show made from the BBC's new Salford studios

Ian Burrell: Never has the Mail been given such a pasting

Never, in all the years of Paul Dacre's editorship, has the journalism of the Daily Mail come under such sustained public attack. Again and again the editor-in-chief sighed in exasperation as Robert Jay QC, counsel to the Leveson Inquiry, questioned the working methods of the paper Mr Dacre has overseen for two decades.

Stephen Glover: The editor of The Times must learn the lessons of the News of the World

Media Studies: Had the judge known the facts, he might have referred the case to the police

Ian Burrell: Time to build a legacy now the big boys have arrived at Silicon Roundabout

Viewpoint: The Silicon Roundabout district has now grown to about 600 businesses

Ian Burrell: Readers have an appetite for politics that hasn't been satisfied – until now

Viewpoint: The political bloggers that have emerged have managed to find only a niche audience

Ian Burrell: We shouldn't keep victims of dark arts in the dark

I have seen the Operation Motorman files and the thousands of names of targeted individuals. Some of them are instantly recognisable as high-profile figures from the worlds of entertainment, politics and sport. Others are members of the public who are not household names, but came on to the radar of the media, which paid a private detective to check them out.

Stephen Glover: All papers need advertorial. But don't go duping your readers

Media Studies: Newspapers will forfeit trust if readers suspect the covert pushing of a commercial agenda

Ian Burrell: Holding power to account is Exaro's creed. But is there a readership for it?

Despite all that has happened recently, Exaro News takes pride in its Fleet Street address. Even if the editor-in-chief of this groundbreaking initiative in online journalism is the author of a prescient book, The Fleet Street Sewer Rat, which highlighted the dark arts as long ago as 2005.

Ian Burrell: What the past four months have really taught us about the tabloid press

Is Leveson working? Four months into an inquiry which Richard Desmond described last week as "the worst thing that has ever happened for newspapers in my lifetime" there are fears that this supposed cleansing process may render the press more toxic in the eyes of the British public than when the hearing began.

Brian Cathcart: Could Leveson be about to join a long line of history's suckers?

Media Studies: Newspapers long ago accepted the need for regulation but would not let it happen

Ian Burrell: No theatrics, just some careful stage management

We may have expected theatre, but Dominic Mohan had no intention of providing any. At the Leveson Inquiry, the editor of The Sun cut an understated figure in a funereal dark suit and tie, as if in respect for the News of the World, the sister paper killed off in a press scandal that still threatens to infect his own title.

Ian Burrell: If Rupert Murdoch's on Twitter, then what's the point of his online paywall?

Viewpoint: Some see the great media titan as a marginalised figure, under pressure to cede power to his children
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