At first, I barely even noticed the oil palm plantation. For first timers it’s not what you would initially associate with deforestation

The BBC, we learned last week, was an organisation crawling with more sexual predators than we had previously thought. It was also, said an official report, a place gripped by an "undercurrent of fear", where bullied staff were afraid to speak out because they did not trust their managers.

Media Studies: Three years ago, the BBC's Asian Network was on the brink of closure. What saved it?

Media Studies: The shock of Diana’s death gave the story a momentum which drove the media into a frenzy

Media Studies: The growth of the site has raised the profile of the magazine, rather than undermined its appeal

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Fond as he is of Italian holidays, David Cameron promised he would never emulate Julius Caesar and "cross the Rubicon" – the stream outside Rimini which has come to symbolise a point of no return. On the other side of the Prime Minister's Rubicon was a new territory where the press was subject to statute, a prospect which – as senior figures in the newspaper industry reminded him – threatened a British tradition of free speech that dated back three centuries.

Media Studies: Many blogs exist in the shadows of anonymity, where political agendas can easily be disguised

Newsstand sales of magazines in America have fallen by around 25 million in a decade