Dear George…Some advice on editing for a newcomer to journalism
George Osborne becoming editor of the Evening Standard is a little like me, a keen amateur cook, going straight in as head chef of the Dorchester. I fear he will be a little out of his depth. Today...
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Comment: Why Google and Facebook will fall like Rome unless they share wealth...
Former local newspaper journalist and founder of the Adiply advertising platform Rick Waghorn explains why Google and Facebook should listen to Press Gazette’s Duopoly campaign and return more value...
View ArticleJournalistic exemption from the Data Protection Act under threat from EU law...
I have always regarded the Data Protection Act as the biggest threat to what’s left of the UK’s press freedom. The landscape would change significantly if legislators tightened the act’s ‘journalistic...
View ArticleComment: Don't confuse Freedom of Information requests with investigative...
Something has been niggling away at me recently about the working practices of many, many of my friends in the trade press and on local papers – and even a fair few reporters on the nationals and...
View ArticleComment: Why the evidence suggests Brexiteer MPs are right and BBC news...
Former BBC journalist David Keighley, principal of media monitoring project News-watch, responds to an earlier Press Gazette guest blog on BBC News bias by Tom Mills. A Press Gazette guest blog by Tom...
View ArticleWe need to a fix an online advertising system which is rigged against news...
Following the #TrustedNewsDay hashtag on Twitter today provided a fascinating insight into the working lives of the thousands of journalists on the frontline of news in the regional press. Through...
View ArticleWhy 'death knocks' are a difficult but essential part of the job for journalists
It was suggested to me yesterday on Twitter that journalists should refrain from contacting the families of those killed in the Manchester terror attack out of respect. I would argue that when you are...
View ArticleBooze and coffee-addled journalist blames impaired executive function for...
Time for a mea culpa over my piece last week about research into the way journalists’ brains work. My first two paragraphs said: “New medical research suggests that UK journalists have lower levels of...
View ArticleThe Manchester Evening News - local newspaper journalism at its best
It has been said that the job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. The Manchester Evening News has provided fine examples of the former this week. After the bombing...
View ArticleComment: Why the news is not always as bad as it seems
Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, nuclear threats, Bashar al-Assad, poison gas, Vladimir Putin, Islamic State, terrorists driving trucks and cars into innocent people, and radicalised Islamicists detonating...
View ArticleWhy longform journalism can help publishers stand out in the age of...
Readers know the satisfaction that comes from a really engaging longform article, even if they have never seen the hashtag #longform. For them the article is rewarding because it’s a proper in-depth...
View ArticleBBC partnerships offer prospect of light at the end of gloomy tunnel for...
Whenever the newsreader says “and now for the news where you are” I turn to the missus, pretend to hold a microphone and say “I’m having a cup of tea and the dog’s been dewormed”. Oh how I laugh. The...
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George Osborne has given the Tories a harder time than Labour in his first...
George Osborne has so far delivered on his pledge to report on the general election campaign “without fear or favour”. Editors show their bias, if they have it, over the choice of stories which they...
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How the Manchester Evening News demonstrated vital role of local journalism...
After an explosion killed 22 at a pop concert in Manchester the reaction of the city’s daily newspaper was exemplary. The atrocity happened at 10.30pm on Monday, 22 May, and by 9am the following day...
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Why Labour supporters may over estimate the influence of the partisan...
Some Labour supporters were so incensed by partisan Sun and Daily Mail election day front pages that they were moved to buy them in bulk and throw them in the bin. Looking at a newsstand it seemed...
View ArticleNewsdesks should collaborate to avoid multiple approaches to families of...
In the days following the Manchester atrocity, a Radio Four reporter was interviewing eye witnesses about what they saw. Which is perfectly natural, of course, because if you want to piece together a...
View ArticleTheresa May's general election flop puts tougher press regulation back on the...
Whether or not to enact Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act is probably not at the top of Theresa May’s mind today. But her party’s woeful general election performance makes the prospect of this...
View ArticlePresident Lincoln's 'four score and seven' speech worth two score in today's...
If President Lincoln filed his Gettysburg Address to the Daily Telegraph today, and they used it in full, he’d get £40 for it. The most famous speech in American history is 272 words long and famously...
View ArticleSocial media copyright lessons for journalists from the Khloe Kardashian case
Carolyn Pepper, partner at Reed Smith, and trainee solicitor Roch Glowacki, on the copyright pitfalls and opportunities of online and social media journalism. There are several pervasive myths which...
View ArticleGrenfell Tower fire disaster suggests more journalism is needed in London -...
It is understandable that journalists come under attack after a disaster which has involved major loss of life. We saw it in Manchester a month ago and it has happened again after the Grenfell Fire...
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