Blog posts by year and monthMay 2010
Posts (33)
Laws law
Journalism has its first scalp of the new government. Inside 17 days. A new personal best. Should we be proud? Have we, once again, brought power to heel with our watchdoggery? Stood firm in defence of the honest man and woman? Or has journalism, true to type, proven its inability to underst...
Question Time and 'Plan B'
The row over Alastair Campbell on BBC Question Time panel has caused a lot of huffing and puffing in the Westminster bubble ... though it will probably leave most of the GBP unmoved. For us journalists, though, it's worth thinking a bit more about it since it's a high-profile and acute instanc...
Has Twitter grown up?
Claire Wardle identifies an important stage in the evolution of Twitter in her brief post 'Four quick examples of Twitter as news'. She could have quoted 40 or even 400 examples of news being broken or made on Twitter. She could just as easily have included Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's T...
Video: Reflections - Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News' International Editor, gave a really inspirational insight into her career and the people who have influenced her in a Reflections event at the Frontline Club. She spoke to Vin Ray, former Director of the BBC College of Journalism, about some of the most importa...
When can we stop calling it a 'coalition government'?
Should journalists stop referring to the 'coalition government'? Is it now just, plain and simple, 'the government'? The Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition emerged as a result of a hung parliament. The government is a coalition. Surely we should be referring to the government as 't...
Event: What Now for Local Media?
Tuesday 8 June 2010, The Frontline Club, London. The media industry has never faced more uncertainty or doubt over its future. And nowhere is that anxiety felt more than in local and regional print and broadcast publishing. Labour's plans to revolutionise local TV and multimedia news by hand...
Event: Reflections With Jon Snow
Monday 19 July 2010, The Frontline Club, London. In the latest of the Reflections series, Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow looks back at his career and the journalism and journalists who've inspired him. Jon is best known as the main presenter of Channel 4 News, which he has been presentin...
Video: Reporting the Papacy
Ahead of the papal visit to the UK in September 2010, David Willey, the BBC's Rome Correspondent, provided an insight into the papacy in a Journalism Programme lunchtime briefing.
Debt mountain
Getting the scale of the UK's debt - and therefore the coalition government's measures to deal with it - into a) scale and b) proportion isn't easy. Phrases like 'eye-watering' are too cliched now and never meant very much anyway. Overstatement doesn't help much either - this first pull at con...
Times' paywall - moment of truth
If you think the paywall debate has got nothing to do with you - think again. Whether the Times experiment works or not, it will probably change the game. Whether you work for the BBC - whose journalism isn't free, as James Murdoch claims; it's paid for differently - or for one of the news org...
