Toxic Twitter
Owen Jones, the noted left wing writer, critic and activist has announced via Facebook his decision to quit all social media including Twitter.
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journalism
How should Britain’s broadcasters tackle Fake News?
2016 was the year that news seemed to collapse into Hunter S Thompson’s dystopian vision of television as a “cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs”.
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Trump and the art of Tweeting
Another day, another tweet, another incident. This time Donald Trump, the prolific and seemingly indiscriminate tweeter who just happens to be leader of the free world has damaged diplomatic relations with Australia.
Read moreNews 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 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 moreJournalists at risk undermine us all
This post from Prof. Richard Sambrook was originally posted on the INSI website This month I stand down as Chair of
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 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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