Editorial – Just tell us the truth 3
Not finally …
Jemima Kiss may close her account 5
Grant Feller on why religion matters 7
Nick Jenkins has fallen out of love 10
Julia Langdon salutes a heroine 12
Roy Greenslade The IRA and me 15
Tom Leonard Liberal media miss Trump 25
Steven Barnett and Julian Petley Ofcom must get tough 29
Peter Bazalgette The television we need 37
David Higgerson Making local news work 45
Will Gore Facebook funds news 51
Ben Whitelaw Who needs editors? 56
Scott Griffen Why censors love Covid 61
BOOK REVIEWS
Julia Langdon remembers Robert Maxwell 67
Trevor Kavanagh strolls down Memory Lane 68
Peter Wilby questions Alan Rusbridger 71
Anne Sebba admires brave women 74
Richard Tait supports the BBC 76
Edmund Fawcett explores power 78
Twitterwatch 24 & 28
Wheeler award 43
Quotes of the quarter 44
The way we were 66
David Higgerson Forget the pessimism. The big audiences that use local media should encourage us to be more positive about the future of the industry The problem with any discussion about the state of local news in 2021 is that too many participants wear rose-tinted...
It is rarely convincing when British newspaper editors set aside commercial rivalries to make common cause, particularly when they call in support some moral principle. We should always ask who benefits. Are they campaigning for truth and openness, or simply to...
Nick Jenkins I fell in love with newspapers at a young age. It helped, of course, that my dad was a journalist. When I was just eight, I used to creep downstairs early to go through the pile of papers he had left on the kitchen table when he arrived home in the night....
Peter Bazalgette As the future of broadcasting is questioned again, we should remember all the benefits brought by quality programming Our debate about public service broadcasting (PSB) has not been good enough. We prefer old certainties to new realities. Sometimes,...
Ben Whitelaw Newsrooms need more data if they are to become profitable again. But what will editors do when the machines take over? Picture the scene. A question flashes up on a news editor’s smartphone: “What story do you want to tell today?” They are at home –...