by admin | Feb 16, 2013 | media ownership, Press
Journalists and bankers are trusted by just 21 per cent of people in the UK. That’s according to an Ipsos MORI poll published in yesterday’s Evening Standard1. However, the place at the bottom of the poll with only 18 per cent of people trusting them – is taken by...
by admin | Nov 29, 2011 | media freedom, Press
This afternoon the Leveson Inquiry really heard how it was, when Paul McMullan News of the World’s deputy features editor between 1994 and 2001 took the stand. He followed the Guardian’s Nick Davies, author of ‘Flat Earth News’ who has done much to expose the phone...
by admin | Oct 18, 2011 | international, photographers, Press
Two Swedish journalists charged with terrorism in Ethiopia last month face trial today in Addis Ababa, with the European Federation of Journalists and rights groups criticising the process. Photographer Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye, both freelancers,...
by admin | Aug 4, 2011 | Campaigns, media freedom, Press
On 26 July I spoke at a meeting on Murdoch organised by NUJ members and supported by the Defend the Right to Protest (DtRtP), at Conway Hall, London. Main speakers included Tony Benn, Michelle Stanistreet (NUJ general secretary) and Matt Foot, campaigning lawyer and...
by admin | Jul 17, 2011 | BBC, Campaigns, international, media freedom, nuj, Press
On 30 June, I was demonstrating outside the Department of Culture Media and Sport offices, just off Trafalgar Square in London. There was a general feeling that it was only a matter of time before Jeremy Hunt MP would waive through the takeover of BSkyB by News...
by admin | May 7, 2011 | international, Press
‘A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.’ Attributed to Mark Twain It’s a good job that the US does not run its military operation against Osama bin Laden like its running its news management of the event. Since Sunday’s...
