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Boris Johnson's £1m for press freedom: a small response to a big threat
Britain’s recognition of the disgraceful reality facing brave journalists around the world is belated and limited, but welcome The surprise announcement by the foreign secretary, Boris Johnso...
How blurring of fact and comment kicked open the door to fake news Roy Greenslade
In seeking to combat mainstream media output, which they regard as a form of fake news, readers have become ready recipients of fake news themselves Who wants the truth? After the shooting mass...
Northern & Shell takeover may prolong Trinity Mirror's life, but its future is uncertain | Roy Greenslade
Bid is likely to face challenges from shareholders and regulators, and involve title mergers and staff cutbacks Trinity Mirror’s bid for Northern & Shell tells us so much about the sorry stat...
Publishing salacious material as public interest besmirches press freedom
Seedy legal plea to name couple filmed having sex by police officer Adrian Pogmore is anything but a matter of high principle One of the recurrent justifications by certain newspapers for intru...
Reactionary politics play their part in the demise of the tabloids | Roy Greenslade
The UK’s popular newspapers need to address editorial tone and quality if they are to attract younger readers and compete with social media Is it any wonder that ink-on-paper newspapers are g...
Snow and Maitlis rows are part of a pattern of attacks on TV journalists
Partisan newspapers continually try to highlight bias among broadcasters, and MPs need few lessons in criticising the BBC Broadcast journalists, ever aware of so-called impartiality rules, seek...
Vacuous Theresa May causes the rightwing press to change tack | Roy Greenslade
Exasperated Tory leaning media have been trying to divert attention from a beleaguered leader by offering anti-Corbyn material Political reporters have not had to look far for gaffes during thi...
Prince and commoner: one rule for Philip and another for Jeremy
Unlike ‘retiring’ Duke of Edinburgh, Corbyn has never been given a free pass by the press, none of his mistakes excused Prince Philip and Jeremy Corbyn have just shared a unique media experi...
MacKenzie has scored a spectacular own goal by insulting Liverpool again
The Sun had little choice but to suspend MacKenzie – and surely this time Rupert Murdoch, his great supporter, cannot save him The Sun had little choice but to suspend Kelvin MacKenzie . And ...
US missile strike in Syria: morally right but done for the wrong reasons? | Roy Greenslade
Newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic urge caution over attack and express doubts Donald Trump had thought through its implications Right action. Wrong actor. That was the majority reaction ...
Would you believe it? Print remains a favourite with readers
New study finds newsprint newspapers are read for an average of 40 minutes per day, outstripping by a wide margin time spent on online reading When I started this blog in 2006, Twitter was thre...
We must not turn our backs on journalists who lack our freedom
Let us not forget that too many reporters, photographers and bloggers around the world lose their liberty, and their lives, simply for trying to do their job I’m always wary of referring to t...
Shameful! Press backs Theresa May's pragmatic response to Donald Trump
UK’s national newspapers sympathise with the prime minister over her failure to condemn the US president’s ban The Guardian’s editorial about Donald Trump’s latest illiberal act refers ...
Daily Record sides with Didier Drogba in attack on the Daily Mail
But the Mail maintains that its story about the footballer’s charity was vindicated by a charity commission inquiry which followed publication of its investigation The Daily Record has critic...
Facebook is trying to tackle fake news, but what should we do?
Frontline Club panel discuss the problem of ‘alternative facts’ and concede that social media is not the only organisation publishing falsehoods Private Eye’s latest cover shows a picture...
Party to celebrate 40th anniversary of City's journalism department
London university’s journalistic alumni to speak at birthday celebration It was in 1976 that London’s City University opened its doors to the first cohort of postgraduate journalism student...
Activist faces prison for saying journalists are banned from Bahrain
Nabeel Rajab has been in custody since June 2016 after writing an article for the New York Times about human rights abuses in his country Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is facing a...
Daily Mail proves again that it is a newspaper apart from all others
The rest of the press grasps that the supreme court stood up for parliamentary sovereignty, but the Mail continues to assault the judiciary... and Gina Miller Those people who think the Daily M...
Winning back advertisers is key to saving the newspaper industry
Former Mail newspapers’ executive Guy Zitter explains how it might be possible to regain advertising revenue, whether online or in newsprint For national newspapers the last couple of years h...
Panel debate on what can, or should, be done about fake news
Frontline Club hosts discussion about the phenomenon that has exposed sharp differences between mainstream media and social media What are we to do about fake news? And, while we’re on the su...