The West End Final edition label is part of the soul of the paper and there are good reasons to retain its use From January, the London Evening Standard will drop its News Extra midday edition, keeping West End Final on its masthead for the first...

Steve Busfield reports from a conference exploring US TV series The Wire as social-science fiction How many sociologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Five. One to change the lightbulb and four to examine The Wire. Harvard sociologist William...

When David Simon's groundbreaking series becomes a subject of academic study, even the question of whether it's a TV show is up for discussion So is The Wire a cop show, part of a totally new genre or not even a TV programme at all? At the Wire as...

We're back in the bowels of the Guardian's Kings Place HQ for another of our not-quite-live and not-quite-outside broadcasts this week. Matt Wells is joined by an all-star panel for a special edition of Media Talk from the Guardian Student Media...

Guardian Student Media Awards winners announced at the Proud Galleries in Camden The 2009 Guardian Student Media Awards were held last night in the Proud Galleries, Camden, hosted by BBC DJ Colin Murray. This year's judging panel included Murray;...