Richard Harris may believe himself to have been a useless editor, but he is no mean book publicist as he proved last week.

The former Carlisle News and Star boss spoke to HTFP last week about his recently-published autobiography The Accidental Editor which, among other things, describes his sacking from the CN Group-owned title in 1993 after three and a half years in charge. Read more »

Every so often we publish a story on HoldtheFrontPage - usually a retirement story or an obituary - which reveals the depth of affection in which some journalists are held by their former colleagues.

Such an example is Alan Goode, whose death at the age of 72 was reported on the site earlier this week. Read more »

The Society of Editors conference is always a highlight of the year for us here at HTFP. Apart from anything else, it's a great chance to catch up with old friends and contacts and experience the camaraderie that, in spite of everything, still lies at the heart of our industry. Read more »

I don't know whether Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford is a football fan, but this blog post calling for star presenters such as Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen to be sacked in order to save the jobs of BBC journalists strikes me as brave and thereby worthy of a wider audience. Read more »

HoldtheFrontPage has today unveiled a series of design tweaks to its homepage including greater prominence for jobs and a new 'media funnies' channel.

The site's new Wordpress platform has now been live for six months and although user feedback has been generally positive, we felt there was still room for improvement.

For instance, some users had commented that they found the Lucida main text font rather blurry.  We agreed and have now changed it back to the much sharper Arial font we used on the old site. Read more »