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As many of you know, I dream of editing in tabloids, so I couldn't let the phone-hacking scandal at my beloved News International go uncommented.  Currently doing work experience at The Sun, I'm smack-bang in the middle of it all, and I have written about it on my blog Scandilous Life on The Medwire.

"As a journalism student infatuated with tabloids and as an admirer of Rebekah Brooks I will no longer hold my peace. The phone-hacking crisis is devastating for News of the World and News International, and if all the accusations are true it is absolutely disgusting. Sienna Miller and various slebs, reality TV stars and footballers I could live with, laugh at and defend. Murdered schoolgirls, war widows and 7/7 victims I cannot. However, this is an opportunity to clean up our acts and not a day of doom for a major part of commercial journalism..." To read on, click here: http://www.themedwire.co.uk/2481/on-hacking-defending-tabloids-and-the-future-of-them/

It's been good to see some new student names contributing to the CfJ blog during the holiday period - don't forget there'll be prizes for the best first year contributions when term resumes, so keep those blogs and comments coming in.

Meanwhile I've been working on better integration of external student blog and Twitter accounts with this site. I'm aware of a number of students who have their own blogs set up, and I'd like to run headline feeds from these to an area on the CfJ site - should be mutually beneficial in terms of traffic. The ones I know of so far are from Nick P, Alan M, Sara M, Jon S and James W. If there are others I haven't yet discovered, could you send me a link so that I can include them too? I'll get this up and running soon.

Even more students have Twitter accounts, so I've finally got around to finishing something I started a few months ago - a system which will automatically post tweets from your own Twitter accounts to this site too. To add your account to this system, follow these steps:

Unfazed by the closure of the London paper and London Lite, a new freesheet has emerged on the streets of London. Called The Blogpaper, it's a printed version of blog postings culled from the internet, and its first monthly edition hit the streets on a small scale on 20 November. Issue two is due on 18 December.

It's not entirely a new idea. In the US the Chicago-based Printed Blog lasted 16 issues before closing in July, while in Argentina a title called Oblogo has reached issue number 26 with a circulation of around 15,000. But the Blogpaper's USP, according to its founders, is that it will not have an editor.

Hi everyone,

I recently started writing again to a long running blog of mine. If anyone is interested then have a read, make comments, and tell me how wrong and biased I am.

http://jwarner-reports.blogspot.com/

I look forward to hearing your views...