Journalists and politicians are currently mulling over ways in which journalism can be moderated to avoid the kind of unethical practice that occurred at The News of the World - but does anybody actually have any good suggestions as to how this can be achieved?

The phone-hacking scandal has let to public outrage about the fact that a news organisation was operating in such a manner and as a result the British judicial and political systems have been forced to respond. But how?

A selection of inquiries, first by the Culture, Sport and Media Parliamentary Select Committee, followed by the pending public inquiry led by Lord Leveson, has been the response of the Conservative government.

At the recent Labour party conference, a controversial response came from Shadow Culture Secretary Ivan Lewis who suggested that journalists should be disciplined for their lack of ethics by being struck off a register for malpractice and banned from working again. Just like a doctor.

This remark was not a statement of intent, merely an idea. If it works for doctors, why not for journalists?

The ripples of hack-gate continue to spread: it was today revealed that James Murdoch's spokeswoman Alice Macandrew has resigned, having given her notice in July she is now working her six month notice period. Macandrew was heavily involved in managing News Corp's reaction to the phone-hacking scandal and the company even attempted to persuade her to stay; but to no avail.

Managing press for James Murdoch must be tough job indeed these days, given Pirc (a company that advises businesses on matters of corporate and board management) has advised News Corp. that he should be dropped from the board due to his connections to the phone hacking scandal.

Life won't be getting any easier for the Murdoch P.R. team any time soon, either. The panel for the Leveson Public Inquiry has been officially announced and, although it has recently faced some criticism for failing to represent the tabloid and regional press, the Inquiry will be yet another obstacle for Murdoch to overcome.

Italian citizens are preparing to take to the streets of Rome tomorrow in order to protest against the infringement of media freedom in Italy.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has drafted a bill that aims to limit the power of news agencies to publish the content of wiretapped recordings. It's not the first time the Prime Minister has tried to do so. In 2009 he attempted to bring in similar legislation, presenting a bill that would make it illegal for any recordings not made by a so-called 'professional journalist' - i.e. a state-approved member of the Italian National Order of Journalists - to be published.

This time, however, Berlusconi has also managed to enrage the blogging community. One particular clause, known to some as "ammazza-blog" (blog killer), states that if someone feels they have been defamed on a blog they have the right to reply, just as if the same material were published in a newspaper. What's more, if the blogger failed to publish a correction to the offending post within 48 hours, they would face a fine of up to €12,000.

The rumours have been flying, but now it looks certain that Amazon will release their new tablet, supposedly called the Kindle Fire, on September 28.

This is going to be a big deal for those in the publishing industry, because not only did Hearst form a potentially lucrative partnership with Amazon prior to the release of this device, but Conde Nast and Meredith are also on board with the new tablet.

So, what's it like? Good, apparently.

Here comes the tech bit: the tablet will run on a customised version of Android - which apparently bears no cosmetic resemblance to the system as it currently appears on other devices - that will rely heavily on Amazon's own appstore, MP3 store and, naturally, the Kindle Bookstore. The device uses multi-touch technology to navigate - so no buttons, just a slick screen. In appearance it is very similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook, probably because it was actually designed by the same company. Amazon wanted The Fire to be stoked and ready for the December shopping period so outsourced the design to PlayBook developers Quanta.

The BBC wins the award for general online excellence at the Online Journalism Awards.

The growing importance of social media to Mexican citizens; social networks give ordinary Mexicans the information they need to survive from day to day.

Is app developing too much of a drain on resources for online publishers?

Mike Arrington starts up UnCrunched, his new tech blog. See here for some clarification about his policy on 'conflict of interest'.

When it comes to getting their facts right, local news organisation are more trusted by readers, says a new PEW study.

One blogger's rise to fame: Gemma Cartwright talks to The Press Gazette about how founding a blog as a teenager propelled her into the high-flying world of fashion journalism.

Renowned journalists and media figures have been eager to voice their concerns for the future of journalism and to expound its importance while the police adopt a seemingly more hostile stance towards the media and News Corporation is beset by yet more allegations of wrong doing.

Defendants of investigative journalism have been speaking out, following what many regard as alarming attempts by the Metropolitan Police to invoke the official secrets act against The Guardian. The director General of the BBC Mark Thompson has voiced his concern for the future of the craft of investigative journalism in what he described as a "dangerous period" for the profession.

The cries to protect the freedom of journalists to investigate thoroughly risk being lost amid the overwhelming atmosphere of public reproach and resentment felt toward one particular journalistic organisation: News International.

The Spanish public broadcast network, RTVE, is facing the prospect of more political influence, The Guardian reports.

Recently, the Editors Weblog reported on proposed changes to the board of French newswire Agence France Presse, which could leave the company open to more interference from the state. Now it seems that RTVE is now facing the kind of interference that many feared could occur at AFP if the changes were to be passed.

RTVE already has a number of political representatives on its board; these representatives have now made a bid to use their privileged position to gain access to the network's news before it is broadcast.

The board decided to vote on this policy because certain members, from the conservative People's party, felt that the news had a pro-socialist bias and that such a bias could not be tolerated in a public broadcaster. The only two board members to vote against the change were two union representatives, as the only two Socialist party representatives abstained for unknown reasons.

Staff at the RTVE have been shocked by the move and there have been calls for the board members to resign. Senior figures from both the conservative People's Party and the socialist party Rubalcaba have condemned the controversial move.

A new FCC report indicates there is a " surprisingly small audience for local news traffic".

ITN, the BBC and Sky News have all agreed to hand over footage of the recent UK riots to the police, having been served with court orders by Scotland Yard.

Two editors in Oman have been jailed and the newspaper they worked for, called Azzaman, has been closed for one month after the paper ran a story that allegedly "insulted" the justice minister.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Chinese journalist. There is doubt as to whether his death was a simple robbery or was in fact related to the part he played in helping exposed criminal operations which resell used cooking oil.

11,000 U.S. libraries now offer their users the opportunity to rent e-books on Kindle and even annotate them using whispersync technology.

Google+ is once a gain a hot topic in the tech world, having unveiled more than 100 features and - finally - opened its doors to everyone, not merely the technocratic few.

Google was back where is wanted to be - at the centre of attention - once more. But only for about 20 minutes.

Facebook is not prepared to give Google a share of the limelight and will parry these blows with some PR of their own. There have been hints, tit-bits and even solid evidence of Facebook being on the verge of releasing a plethora of new features, such as social media and content sharing, a drastic profile redesign and a mobile photo-sharing app . These developments will obviously be officially revealed at the Facebook developers' conference F8 on Thursday 22 September.

No wonder that Google have had trouble holding on to the headlines.