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Do grow up British Journalism Review Pub Date : 2022-09-02
How time flies. Is it really three years since we discussed on these pages the generosity shown by journalists to an incoming prime minister who had been plucked from their own ranks? Normally something dies in journalists when figures alongside them succeed. Peers are done down rather than bigged up. Yet the sometime Daily Telegraph columnist’s accession to power had just been greeted with acclaim
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The fog of war British Journalism Review Pub Date : 2022-06-01
The journalists who went off to Ukraine as Vladimir Putin sent in his army expected at worst to find themselves under bombardment, at best to be reporting under Russian censorship within days. Few thought they would be broadcasting live in the weeks that followed, let alone anchoring news programmes with all the sang-froid of those safe at home.
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Editorial guidelines British Journalism Review Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Don Berry
Do you remember when the “furniture” of a newspaper page was designed to help the reader? Each layout was the product of thought, craft and a knowing eye, taking readers by the hand and leading them round the page. Now we have picture captions such as this, in a recent spread in The Times about Vladimir Putin’s family: “Svetlana Krivonogikh’s daughter, Elizaveta, circled, bears a striking resemblance
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Taking back control British Journalism Review Pub Date : 2022-03-04
Was ever a medium more suited to journalists and journalism than Twitter? Solipsistic, self-promoting, credulous and with a short attention span – no wonder we keep going back. It gets stick for encouraging the mean-spirited, but today it deserves only praise. Twitter has become the apotheosis of news, bringing us stories as they are born, information in its purest form.
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Room at the top British Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-12-09
Not everyone hands over power with good grace, so it was encouraging to hear the long-time political editor and news presenter Adam Boulton, stepping down this month after 32 years at Sky News. Television, he told The Times, was very sensitive to diversity. “We all think we got there on merit. I like to think we did, but nonetheless, on balance, a disproportionate number of people like me got there
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Come home British Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-01
Say what you like about bankers, but you know where you stand with them. While most of the world’s employers fretted about persuading staff even to contemplate a return to the office, the boss of Goldman Sachs told his he’d see them at their desks or wouldn’t be seeing them at all.
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Fake news is old news British Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Martin Moore
©Moore; DOI: 10.1177/09564748211042755a; [2021/9] 32:3; 65-66; http://bjr.sagepub.com was populated far more by “fake” than by “true” news. We start with the “strange newes” and “tydings” of the century following Gutenberg’s development of the printing press, when unpopular leaders could be transformed by news reports into bloodthirsty madmen. This is just what happened to Vlad Tepes III of Wallachia
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Great on scandals, useless on science British Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Brian Winston,Graham R Law
Ever since Marchmont Needham, the Mercurius Britanicus publisher, got hold of secret papers found in the panniers on the defeated Charles I’s horse after the battle of Naseby (June 14, 1645), the newspaper scoop revealing sensational, secret information has lain at the heart of the Anglophone press’s exercise of free expression. It is the ultimate way it guards the guardians, how it speaks truth to
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Give them a chance British Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-05-27
Which journalist heart does not beat a little faster at the prospect of a new kid on the block? The television channel GB News has reached that exciting moment in any launch when anything seems possible, tantalising us with a Freeview channel number, a roster of presenters and a studio nearing completion in Paddington.
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