As another year looms, I cannot remember such despondency in what used to be called Fleet Street. It is not just that several newspaper groups are losing money: it was ever thus. There is talk of a general decline in newspapers. Some even suggest that the written word - as it appears in a bundle of newsprint delivered to your door ...

Author and journalist Stephen Pollard has been appointed as editor of the Jewish Chronicle. Pollard, 43, a biographer of former home secretary David Blunkett and blogger on the Spectator's website, takes over from departing editor David Rowan next month. Rowan is leaving to launch UK edition of US technology magazine Wired for Condé Nast. Pollard writes for ...