Lego vs Daily Mail strikes at paper’s weak spot: its advertising revenue
Perhaps providing a welcome diversion to all the apocalyptic press reaction following the election of Donald Trump is the news
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News UK, journalism and Politics…plus ça change
The reciprocal closeness in the relationship between journalism and power is a prominent feature of British political history. In times
Read moreJournalism shines a light.
Debates about the ethics and validity of investigative journalism have been very much to the fore recently. Last week’s news
Read moreSam Allardyce ‘sting’ is the latest chapter in a new era of investigative reporting
The manager of the England football team, Sam Allardyce, has resigned just five months into his job, apparently “by mutual
Read moreWhere have all the flowers gone? Remembering Aberfan.
October 21st 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. At 9.15 am on that day in 1966, just as Pantglas junior school
Read moreWhy we are moved by images of children in war….and why that’s not enough
Few images have captured the peculiar horrors of the war in Syria more powerfully than the photograph and short video
Read moreLocal journalism in crisis.
In October 2015, at a cost of £220m, Trinity Mirror, the parent company of Mirror newspapers and the Sunday People,
Read moreFox News: Out with the old – in with the old familiar.
The resignation yesterday of Roger Ailes, Chairman and Chief Executive of Fox News in the US, sent shock waves through an American
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Why we must study the media
Posted by Dr John Jewell From time to time various Tory politicians, journalists and ill informed misanthropes rise from their
Read moreJournalism and the road to war in 2003. The Daily Mirror stood out.
When, in October 2015, Tony Blair apologised for the use of “wrong” intelligence in the run up to the 2003
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