Facebook’s Instant Article and the future of news.
Last week, the ubiquitous social media giant Facebook announced that it had launched a mobile app called Instant Articles wherein news stories provided
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Bloodshed and bacon – how the press saw final days of election campaigning
So that’s that, then. The pollsters got it wildly wrong and the UK did not wake up on Friday to
Read moreScottish Sun supports Scottish Nationalists: It’s no shock.
The front pages of the Sun and the Scottish Sun on Thursday morning provided further evidence of Roy Greenslade’s recent
Read moreSturgeon, Wood and Bennett – sexualised, demonised, patronised and animalised.
In a recent interview with Scottish Television’s Debi Edwards, the leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon spoke about the sexism
Read moreThe Sun and Katie Hopkins: printing the unspeakable.
I think everybody recognises Katie Hopkins as a professional controversialist. Her journalism and public persona are, it seems to me,
Read moreIs quality journalism being sacrificed at the Daily Telegraph?
It’s not often that you see journalists openly criticise each other. For sure, there is the well documented ideological antipathy
Read moreBattle buses and staged events – the 1983 General Election campaign
Learn from the master, chaps. PA David Cameron seems to have been channelling the spirit of Margaret Thatcher in
Read moreCelebrity prayers….public figures and politics.
The latest Labour election broadcast, premiered on March 30th, is a direct to audience address by the actor Martin Freeman, who you might
Read moreMirror, Mirror off the wall…
The week that four senior journalists from The Sun were cleared at the Old Bailey on all charges relating to paying
Read moreThe return of Saatchi and Saatchi
The news that Ed Milband has ruled out forming a coalition with the SNP may have come too late to
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