Kentish Gazette transgender article was wrong - but journalists should not be...
As a journalist who once worked for Associated Kent Newspapers, once rival publishers to the Kent Messenger Group, I would like to comment on the scandal around my former rival’s somewhat insensitive...
View ArticleHow to be a journalist: Read Press Gazette's 2017/18 guide to journalism...
“How do I become a journalist?” Despite the many challenges our industry faces it’s a question I often get asked. The answer is reasonably straight forward: Get a qualification which is recognised by...
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The Express was a repeat offender when it came to misleading press coverage...
The UK newspaper industry has latched on to the issue of “fake news” as a way to trumpet its strengths. Earlier this year press trade body the News Media Association launched the the Fighting Fake News...
View ArticleFinalists revealed for the British Journalism Awards 2017
Press Gazette today announces the finalists for the 2017 British Journalism Awards. This year the event has had a record 600 entries with every major news organisation in the UK making submissions. The...
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Cutbacks at Buzzfeed are another sign that digital ecosystem dominated by...
If free, extremely popular websites like Buzzfeed are struggling in the digital ecosystem which Google and Facebook dominate – than the Duopoly issue is far bigger than I feared. And for their own...
View ArticleRoy Greenslade: Why Snooper's Charter, Data Protection Act and Section 40 all...
Reporters Without Borders board member Roy Greenslade’s speech to the British Journalism Awards at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms. I am sorry to say that this has been a terrible year for press...
View ArticleComment: Could secret of Mail Online's success be that it is investing in...
Buzzfeed is in the process of making 100 staff redundant despite its previous declarations of investing in journalism. The news follows that of the Daily Telegraph which recently put the price of the...
View ArticleAlan Rusbridger on Peter Preston: 'He personified the Guardian character and...
Peter Preston was a Guardian lifer and personified the Guardian character and values. He was a loner and an outsider. His first job as editor in 1975 had been to tidy up the loose ends of the...
View ArticleThe Post review: More publishing than reporting drama but a great and timely...
The Post is more of a boardroom drama than a newsroom drama. The story that the Washington Post chases in the film is one that has already been broken by the New York Times, and the drama revolves...
View ArticleBritish Journalism Awards video: Finally an an uplifting film about the...
Films celebrating US journalists (such as The Post reviewed here in Press Gazette) are much in vogue at the moment. In the UK, for a depiction of journalism in popular drama you have to head to the...
View ArticleTrinity Mirror buys Express Newspapers: What the deal means for plurality and...
Contrast the fortunes of Twitter with that of the UK national press group Express Newspapers. The former has lost some £2bn since its launch in 2006 and has a market capitalisation of more than £20bn....
View ArticleMax Mosley: Newspapers' repeated references to orgy story are attempt to...
This morning, a letter my lawyers sent three days ago, has been the subject of extraordinary and sensational reporting. Most notably, the Daily Mail has given it the full treatment, describing it as a...
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Max Mosley's long fight with the British press: He has a lost a battle but he...
This week saw a significant setback for Max Mosley in his decade-long war with the UK tabloid press. The Daily Mail uncovered uncomfortable allegations regarding his youthful political activities and,...
View ArticleTweet in haste, repent at leisure: When journalists can be liable for what...
You probably haven’t heard of Sir Philip Burrington Dingle. Before he was knighted, he was the Town Clerk in Manchester, and was libelled by the Daily Mail on 16 June 1958, in an article about the...
View ArticleGovernment's press review panel needs to find 'another seat at the table' for...
Last summer I met with Matt Hancock MP, then a junior minister at Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, as part of a National Union of Journalists’ delegation. The case we made was simple: The newspaper...
View ArticleReporting death: A reflection of a society that cares or needless bothering...
The official review of the aftermath of last year’s Manchester Arena attack, which is due for publication this month, includes an examination of media behaviour. As chairman of the review, Lord...
View ArticleJames Harding's Hugh Cudlipp Lecture: Technology vs Democracy
James Harding’s Cudlipp lecture as delivered on 21/3/2018 It is a great pleasure to speak here tonight and it’s a privilege to honour Hugh Cudlipp, an editor whose memory still inspires style, purpose...
View ArticleDefendants should not be gleeful at prospect of Supreme Court allowing appeal...
There is a sneaking suspicion among some media lawyers that our cases seem to get permission to appeal to the higher courts more regularly than one might expect. Maybe it’s the fast-changing nature of...
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Newspapers are in a 'daily fight against fake news' and IPSO mark shows which...
Today is World Information Society Day. If, like me, you were previously unaware of WIS Day, it is a UN-endorsed international celebration of the positive impact of the internet and broader information...
View ArticleRevival out of revolution: The rise of the sponsored news report
Dr James Ohene-Djan is co-Founder of WinkBall and senior lecturer at Goldsmiths University. SPONSORED FEATURE. The blistering pace of change in the news and media industry since the dawn of the digital...
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