Public service journalism is more vital now than ever and should be given charitable status.
- Visiting Professor of Practice (Journalism), City St George's, University of London
The UK’s public broadcaster is struggling to maintain its values in a news environment being remade by digital technology.
After facing the US Congress the Facebook chief will have learned the easy part is over. From now on things will be tougher.
Squabbling and poor regulation achieve nothing.
The Facebook CEO’s vision for a digital future still needs a little work.
EU law needs to recognise that privacy and free expression are matters of colliding rights which can’t be wished away.
The history of newspapers has been one of adapting to prosper and now is no different.
The UK news giant’s ‘Newsroom 3.1’ strategy has been called the ‘death spiral of journalism’.
This was supposed to be the “social media election” but in the end it was those who moved beyond horse-race journalism, on whatever platform, who excelled.
The media giant is kidding itself – and us – if it doesn’t think it’s in the news business.
They think and work differently, cartoonists. Anyone who has spent any time in an editorial office will know that cartoonists dream and draw on their own, working to the rhythm of their thoughts – if they…
So, Andy Coulson has been found guilty of plotting to hack phones – but former colleague Rebekah Brooks walked free after the jury in the hacking trial cleared her of all criminal charges. The verdicts…
It was something of a moment in the evolution of news in this country. Last week, while we were still digesting the revelation that The Independent, which had been acquired by its current owner for just…
Much commentary about the news media foresees the disintegration and dissolution of the mainstream monoliths – both TV networks and mass-circulation newspapers – which dominated the public sphere in the…
Whenever more than two journalists gather together to discuss the future of their business, the dialogue is usually depressing. This prevailing pessimism must change: we need a new conversation about what’s…
Any time from this week, we may hear news from the government ministers assigned to solve the conundrum of press regulation. Consultation on one of the many royal charters which have been written since…
Andy Coulson, Former News of the World editor and British Prime Minister David Cameron’s previous Director of Communications, was arrested and charged with perjury last night in relation to evidence he…
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