Reporting the battle of the Somme – 100 years on.
Today is July 1st 2016 and it marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme. The
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The Sun, ‘buyer’s remorse’ and perpetual prejudice.
Providing perhaps a little schadenfreude related light relief amidst the seemingly endless EU referendum coverage was the news yesterday that
Read moreNo Mars a day in Wales
Last Thursday morning I was invited to contribute to Jason Mohammad’s very popular (and very good) BBC radio Wales programme. The topic
Read moreBBC gets out of the kitchen as government turns up the heat.
I suppose it says a lot about our current national obsession with all matters gastronomic that the focal point of
Read moreThe end of a brand New Day
Yesterday evening various political and media websites began to give credence to rumours that Trinity Mirror was to announce the imminent closure
Read moreThe Sun, Hillsborough and ‘the truth’.
As Jared Ficklin wrote here yesterday, the verdicts returned at the inquest into the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 completely vindicate
Read morePanama Papers: media attacks on Cameron may have more to do with Brexit than banking
In an era in which public trust of traditional media is slowly rising from the low point of the phone-hacking scandals
Read moreCelebrity, Politics and ‘sniffy journalists’.
Quoted in the Radio Times this week, veteran foreign correspondent and broadcaster Michael Buerk said that he was ‘a little sniffy
Read moreWill readers rise to greet The New Day?
The New Day, Trinity Mirror’s attempt to breathe life into the generally moribund world of UK national daily newspapers, has
Read moreTwitter is a dangerous place for those in the public eye.
Stephen Fry has been, give or take the odd sabbatical, a prolific and entertaining tweeter for a number of years.
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