The Sunday Times announced it is closing its bureau in Northern Ireland, leaving the editor there looking for other job options.

Liam Clarke has worked at the Times for about 20 years, witnessing some of the biggest, most dangerous stories the paper covered during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. “His departure marks and end to one of the most turbulent news reporting careers on the paper, during which he frequently covered terrorism, extortion and crime,” writes the Guardian's Ben Dowell.

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The search for a new publisher of the Ventura County Star is under way, the newspaper and its parent company, E.W. Scripps Co., announced Monday.

Tim Gallagher became the newspaper's publisher in 2004, and will step down from the post in several weeks, continuing on as a part-time assistant to Scripps Howard Publishing President Mark Contreras.

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The Wall Street Journal Online has named Almar Latour its new managing editor, effective Sept. 4. Latour will replace Bill Grueskin, who was recently appointed deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal.

Latour, 36, was previously the bureau chief for the technology group based in New York, in charge of the Journal's print and online edition integration.

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On the same day Daily Telegraph editor Will Lewis announced a list of personnel changes, including new digital and political reporting teams, education editor Liz Lightfoot and royal correspondent Caroline Davies left the paper.

The newspaper will not comment on why the two quit, but it is understood they left Tuesday without giving notice.

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The Times-Union of Jacksonville, Fla., will lay off 60 workers across several departments, but not in the newsroom, according to the paper’s report today.

Publisher Carl Cannon said that the reason for the layoffs, announced on Monday, is “nearly a year of declining revenue from real estate advertising.”

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American journalism's biggest in-house fight, which has gone on over the past year, was on full display in a Santa Barbara, Calif. courtroom Tuesday.

Eight fired journalists accused Santa Barbara News-Press owner Wendy McCaw of trying to end a union organising drive, while the publisher's head lawyer said the journalists had tried to take control of the newspaper.

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The move by New Zealand's major newspaper group to outsource editorial production work will cut into the quality of those newspapers, the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists has announced.

The New Zealand branch of the Australian-based APN News & Media began outsourcing sub-news editing and page layout Sunday for Auckland's daily The New Zealand Herald. Once the paper's outsourcing move is complete, the media group will move on to its six regional dailies and other weekly and community titles.

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A strike at Glasgow Herald and Evening Times papers was called off after half an hour earlier today. Staff returned to work after the management agreed a staff member facing compulsory layoff would be reinstated.

"All industrial action is suspended," said National Union of Journalists Scottish organiser Paul Holleran. "We reached an agreement with a form of words on how redundancies should be handled."

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