It was a newspaper for people who don’t like newspapers. And not enough people liked it.
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
All UK tabloids, but particularly The Sun, have a lot to answer for with their disgraceful reporting.
This has been cross-border journalism at its best. But for some papers it’s a chance to pursue a different agenda entirely.
Just because they are famous doesn’t mean they know what they are talking about.
It’s the first standalone daily newspaper to launch in the UK for 30 years. So what’s it like?
Journalists are increasingly relying on social media rows for quick and easy stories.
The loss of the printed Independent will leave a big hole on the nation’s newstands.
There’s no great doubt as to what UK press thinks of the latest ‘deal’ on EU membership.
New appointment will make Rupert Murdoch’s youngest son one of the most powerful figures in European broadcasting.
The Paris Climate Conference must not be hijacked by big business and its allies in the world’s media.
Media coverage of the Paris attacks has been strong and respectful – with exceptions.
Apple is already the biggest company in the world and looks set to grow even faster in the future. Is that necessarily a good thing?
Two incidents have stressed the fragility of free speech in Britain in the face of police use of anti-terror legislation to seize materials from journalists and academics. The Independent has reported…
When it was announced that Seumas Milne, the Guardian columnist and associate editor, had been appointed as Labour’s executive director of communications and strategy, sections of the press were vitriolic…
I’ve written elsewhere about the effortlessness with which the BBC’s Question Time programme seems to habitually generate controversy. Regular guests, such as George Galloway, David Starkey, Russell Brand…
The next film in the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens, comes out in December. But promotion has already started with all manner of tie-in products up for sale.
The news that two British journalists and their unnamed Iraqi colleague were arrested and charged by the Turkish authorities [though released following publication of this article] for “engaging in terror…
In a scoop worthy of its deceased predecessor, the News of the World, the Sun on Sunday ran a five-page exclusive at the weekend alleging that Lord Sewel, deputy speaker of the House of Lords, had been…
It’s increasingly apparent that the Labour Party is muddling through a period of existential crisis. This week’s welfare bill debacle, where 48 MPs wilfully defied the interim leadership’s call for abstention…
It’s to be yet another week of crisis, inspection and introspection for the forever under pressure BBC as the government is set to publish a green paper on Thursday, which will, the Guardian says, signal…
It’s not often you can say that UKIP and the Green party are united in their political aims, but on the contentious subject of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) they are…
Successive governments have criticised the BBC for being too impartial or not impartial enough.
The 2015 Reuters institute digital news report has just been published. It contains, according to Matthew Ingram in Fortune magazine, mostly bad news for traditional, mainstream media – confirming what…
The acquittal of former News of the World editor and Cameron spin doctor-in-chief Andy Coulson on perjury charges at the high court in Edinburgh appears to have hinged largely on a phrase uttered by the…
For most British people the Dunkirk evacuation between May 26 and June 4 1940 was the most significant early event of World War II. And in the 75 years since those momentous events it has come to occupy…
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