Snooper's charter: Petition launched for amendment to save journalists' sources
SIGN OUR PETITION There is universal agreement across the media industry that the Investigatory Powers Bill puts journalistic sources at risk. The government does not yet appear to understand the depth...
View ArticleAre PRs up to the job? Fill out our quick survey and win tickets to the...
FILL OUT OUR SURVEY NOW It sometimes seems like journalists are from Mars and PRs are from Venus, to coin a phrase. To journalists, PRs can seem like an obstacle in the way of getting to the truth, and...
View ArticleKelvin MacKenzie and the hijab-wearing newsreader: Freedom of speech means...
Kelvin MacKenzie must be pleased with the backlash against his latest Sun column, questioning whether a hijab-wearing reporter should present Channel 4 News on the day it reported on a massacre in Nice...
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Six of the best from local press: Zombie knives victory, Pokemon protest,...
Local newspapers are where the news begins: here’s my latest round-up of six local stories which have caught my eye over the last week or so. Express and Star: The Wolverhampton daily has won its...
View ArticleThe Guardian should look at Economist and FT for inspiration on how to climb...
The financial results of The Guardian’s parent company reveal that the global beacon of liberal journalism has a mountain to climb if it is to secure its future. The trading loss of £69m has...
View ArticleWhen government press officers think they are court reporters justice could...
A question for you. When is court report not a court report? Answer: when a government department writes it. Then it’s a press release. Confused? You should be. It’s a quirky area of law which...
View ArticleEditor axed by Trinity Mirror uses odd-numbered listicle to reflect on an...
Herts and Essex Observer editor Paul Winspear took redundancy last month after ten years in the job. He has ruefully reflected in a Facebook post on how his 33-year career at Herts and Essex Newspapers...
View ArticleAre there 1,000 Gareth Davieses out there? Let us know how your local press...
Many who have worked in the regional press will understand the sense of impotent rage felt by former star reporter for the Croydon Advertiser Gareth Davies which led him to sound off against his former...
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Tales from the regional press frontline: 'Management is obsessed with...
When a local newspaper’s star reporter takes redundancy at just 29 and then publicly denounces everything about the way his title is being run it is right that the industry sits up and takes notice....
View ArticleThe EU has helped to shape UK copyright law for journalists, but Brexit...
Now that that dust has settled after the EU referendum, it’s worth looking at how Brexit will affect media law. Nothing is certain yet, but it is possible to make some informed predictions. I will be...
View ArticleCOMMENT: We need a new kind of press regulator for a new kind of press
Readers are said to be resistant to it. The newspaper industry certainly doesn’t want it. Mad really, given that news is all about change. If only times hadn’t changed. If only the public didn’t pull a...
View ArticleAnalysis: Brexit could remove EU legal protection for comments on news websites
This is the second article in my series about the possible effect of Brexit on media law. I examined copyright earlier this month. This article looks at the future of reader comments on message boards....
View ArticleWhy press exposed Keith Vaz but (at least initially) ignored John...
I’ve been asked why Fleet Street suppressed the news former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale had an affair with a woman who worked as a paid dominatrix but exposed Keith Vaz. The former story was...
View ArticleDrunk wasps and a fight between a lion and a lorry: Six of the best from the...
Here is my latest round up featuring six of the best stories I’ve spotted in the regional press over the last week or so. The story of Dover Mayor Neil Rix who was caught on camera snorting an unknown...
View ArticleBaronet report sheds further light on incompetence of the police and...
If Surrey Police had acted on knowledge of phone-hacking at the News of the World in 2002, the paper would probably still be in print today. It would have lanced the boil of corruption before the...
View ArticleHacked Off founder accuses press of double standards over 'not shocking'...
Hacked Off founder and journalism academic Brian Cathcart has taken issue with my blog post explaining why the media exposed Keith Vaz MP but (at least initially) kept quiet about John Whittingdale’s...
View ArticleUS journalists urged to 'throw out the text book' and 'call things as they...
American print journalism (unlike the US) has always prided itself on balance and impartiality – to point where UK journalists can find it a little dull. But the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency...
View ArticleHow editors can save lives by taking special care when reporting on suicide
IPSO complaints committee deputy chair Richard Best on how editors can save lives by responsibly reporting suicide It’s got to top the long list of things that keep editors awake at night: the prospect...
View Article'Never believe anything until it is officially denied' - David Randall picks...
In the first of a new fortnightly column for Press Gazette, David Randall picks out some of his favourite quotes about journalism Every so often someone asks me how long it takes to write a book. I...
View ArticleHow to Be a Journalist 2016/17: Read Press Gazette's free magazine (published...
Press Gazette has published its third annual guide to journalism training, published in association with the National Council for the Training of Journalists. Aimed at school and college-leavers, it...
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