BBC journalist shares advice on how to 'do no harm' when covering sensitive...
No matter what their beat, journalists who are reporting day in and day out for newspapers, online, on radio and on TV are regularly working closely with people who are emotionally fragile. Our current...
View ArticleFull Fact's Will Moy: 'Journalists have failed to recognise they are part of...
The following is a response from Will Moy (pictured, right), chief executive of fact-checking charity Full Fact, to a question about how to fight misinformation, made during a conference on Brexit and...
View ArticleNick Robinson's 'dictator' Boris claim is 'out of touch' with social media
BBC Today presenter Nick Robinson has accused Boris Johnson of acting “like a dictator” for broadcasting directly to voters in social media videos. The bigger picture, which Robinson is clearly upset...
View ArticleMedia academics open up research spanning freelancing and covering the far-right
Top journalism researchers from across the globe have attempted to answer a major question about their research – does anyone care. They argue, of course, that the answer is: “Yes”. Or, at the least,...
View ArticleAre special editions the future of print for magazine brands?
Former Vogue editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman has suggested that the future of print magazines could lie in switching to less frequent, special editions, allowing media companies to take costs out of...
View ArticleNon-profit local news body could bring about 'sea change' in public interest...
Earlier this year, a major report into the future of journalism made stark reading for those who believe in the importance of local democracy. The effect of commercial pressures on local journalism...
View ArticleBreaking Fleet Street's 'code of omerta' to discuss the so-called 'crisis in...
There is a code of omerta concealing the crisis in British journalism and industry figures like myself refuse to discuss it – or so says academic and Hacked Off founder Brian Cathcart. He details a...
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Political parties must stop imitating newspapers in election campaign materials
Political parties must stop imitating newspapers in their election campaign material to avoid deceiving voters and damaging the reputations of trusted local news titles. The Liberal Democrats have...
View ArticleTory election win may prompt cheers from national press but fears from...
Many political journalists have cursed Boris Johnson’s Conservatives for an ultra stage-managed campaign which gave little opportunity for them to do their jobs and subject them to scrutiny. But those...
View ArticleMedia use of 'vague terminology' like 'Asian' fails Sikhs and other religious...
The issue of Islamophobia and “mistaken identity” has been impacted by the definition of sexual grooming gangs by the media as “Asian”. In Britain, all South Asians – those with parents or grandparents...
View ArticleWhy Harry and Meghan are better equipped to protect their privacy in England...
It may turn out that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were better placed to protect their privacy in Windsor than they are on Vancouver Island. For all the faults the Sussexes may see with the British...
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Lord Lucan sighting: Has the last great Fleet Street mystery finally been...
If reports of Lord Lucan’s discovery in Western Australia prove positive then it could be the scoop of the century – albeit the last century. While millennials everywhere may be scratching their heads...
View ArticleBrexit Day: Fleet Street influence may have been decisive in Britain leaving...
Many of today’s national newspaper front pages strike a triumphalist tone as the UK leaves the European Union tonight. And well they might. The Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Express have...
View ArticleLobby access row and the case for televising daily Number Ten briefings
Yesterday’s rare outbreak of solidarity among Lobby journalists was as laudable as Number 10’s PR strategy appears to be petulant. I hope that those political journalists banned from yesterday’s...
View ArticleJournalists face abuse after Caroline Flack death sparks anger at tabloid...
The death by suicide of TV presenter Caroline Flack has seen renewed anger towards tabloid newspapers over recent coverage of the Love Island host. A perception among some is that stories reporting...
View ArticlePaywalls and data: How to make digital publishing pay
How to make money in publishing was the question being asked at Mash Media’s event for the news industry at London’s Excel. Did it deliver on its title of Making Publishing Pay? Up to a point. There...
View ArticleSLAPP lawsuits aiming to silence journalists on the rise
Journalists in Europe have been physically attacked, threatened, slandered, subjected to criminal investigations and arrested in the last year. One was killed. These means of silencing journalists are...
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Pulse editor on covering coronavirus: 'We are almost on a wartime footing and...
Pulse is the monthly magazine and digital news service for GPs published by Cogora. Here editor Jaimie Kaffash shares his insight into what he has learned so far about covering the coronavirus...
View ArticleCoronavirus (Covid-19) and the news industry: Everything you need to know
The coronavirus pandemic presents the greatest threat to the global news industry since the 2008 economic crash. Social distancing measures are impacting print circulations, online advertising is...
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Coronavirus and the news industry: What we've learned so far and how we can...
Never has the news business been more imperiled – or more vital – than during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Online audience figures are, in many cases, through the roof. But, for the time being...
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