We spoke too soon. In September 2023, we promised here that we were about to learn what an elderly UK national newspaper was worth in a world dominated by the new media companies. Eighteen months on, we are still waiting to find out. The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday...
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Contents
Editorial It’s a fire sale
Not finally…
Steven Barnett looks into The Sun
John Mair wants a local journalist
Nick Jenkins makes a confession
Arthur MacMillan calls out a PR trick
Charlotte Henry Give us back the old barons
Branko Brkic The world looks to London
Pedro Sanchez We can repair social media
Julian Petley A way to stop the lies
Laura Davison Protect us from AI
Martin Bright Pay them what they’re worth
David Woode Keeping back the facts
Roy Greenslade When police behave badly
John Mair Piling in on the PM
Ben Lynfield Israel tightens the screw
Book Reviews
Robert Tombs admires Tim Shipman
John Sutherland recoils from man’s inhumanity
Raymond Snoddy names the guilty men
Catherine Pepinster takes tabloid reporting to task
Valerie Grove celebrates Craig Brown
X Watch
Quotes of the quarter
The way we were
It’s all my fault
I did my bit to pioneer working from home. More than 20 years ago, when I was production editor responsible for PA’s newswire output, we had a sub who found it more difficult than others to get into our central London office. Mike Dodd, who went on to be a co-editor...
They make press barons look good
The tech bosses have taken over much of media. Just don’t fall for the idea that they care about journalism
When will the law catch up?
If old rules stop mainstream media reporting facts in the public interest, social media is free to do its worst
A big story that was hardly told
Police attacks on journalists went ignored because UK newspapers don’t care about Northern Ireland
