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The continuing crisis in local newspapers – you’ll miss them when they are gone.
Social networking, smartphones, ad blockers, oh my. A global survey of 50,000 news consumers assessed the ways we get our news in 2016.
Researching how news has changed from the 17th century to the present makes two scholars sanguine about its future.
Always an underdog, the newspaper showed what imagination and rigour could bring to journalism.
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…
Why Twitter went wild for stories from David Cameron’s university days.
Objectivity and balance aren’t enough when it comes to teaching journalists about ethics.
Diversity of media is critical for a functioning democracy; but it’s not guaranteed by any means.
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 UK news giant’s ‘Newsroom 3.1’ strategy has been called the ‘death spiral of journalism’.
The Sun goes separate ways in England and Scotland, but does it matter?
The press doesn’t have as much sway with voters as it once did, but it still sets the boundaries of debate.
The tabloids aren’t the force they used to be.
Miliband faces a dominant media narrative in which he will always be the loser.
Common sense tells us that an election debate comes with dangers for the incumbent, but that’s no excuse not to participate.
There were newspapers articles, there were radio debates, there were thousands of tweets, and there was (understandably) joyful triumphalism from those who had campaigned for its disappearance. But it…
At 16.38 on December 10th 2014, the casual viewer of BBC News24 may been forgiven for thinking that news had finally eaten itself. For there, on the screen, was the breaking news announcement: GUARDIAN…
Well, there was a lot of mucking about, but Panorama has finally broadcast its exposé of Sun on Sunday journalist Mazher Mahmood, widely known as the “Fake Sheikh”. The programme had been scheduled for…
All too predictably, the Ebola crisis has been accompanied by any number of breathless headlines – not all of them sensible. “Experts fear ISIS jihadists may infect themselves to spread virus in West…
The fall-out from the collapse of the Tulisa Contostavlos prosecution in London is the detonation of another anti-media rage in the continuing crisis for British journalism ethics. The former X Factor…


















