Bill Hagerty, the chairman emeritus of the British Journalism Review, died on Boxing Day, aged 86, after a short illness. The editor of the magazine for a decade until 2012, when he took the role of chairing the editorial board which he held until 2019, Bill...
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Contents
Editorial Comforting the enemy
Not finally…
Laura Michael takes back control
Lynne O’Donnell is vindicated
Andrew Lynch scared the City
Ben Lynfield Lone voice in Israel
Ray Snoddy Is the BBC biased?
Arthur MacMillan US media madness
Andrew Jaspan Journalism with brains
Charlotte Henry Podcast stardom
David King Football fans mourn
Peter Gillman We got to the truth
Asad Ali Toor Just let me go
Wendy Sloane Dissidents in Moscow
Book Reviews: John Lloyd learns where news comes from
Alex Brummer explores Jewish identity
Patrick Wintour reads the press on Gaza
Robin Lustig fears a new censorship
Dennis Sewell examines William Buckley
Valerie Grove celebrates a woman pioneer
Peter Stothard discovers a debut novelist
Xwatch
The Wheeler Award
The Cudlipp Prize
The way we were
Quotes of the quarter
Big mistake
Allegations of bias are hard to prove. A breach of editorial rules is not. The BBC crisis came to a head because Panorama’s elision of words by Donald Trump was impossible to ignore. When the BBC’s own television comedy show Have I Got News For You played a section –...
President Putin is not a loyal reader
The Moscow Times is in exile, and its founder has died. Can it continue to be a voice for independent journalism in Russia?
My passport to nowhere
When the United States invited this journalist to talk about human rights, Pakistan would not let him leave
Let’s keep up the fight
In early 2025, a high-profile television journalist approached me at the Frontline Club in London and called me a “warrior journalist”. I wasn’t sure what she meant then. I am now. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, has just...
Back in the hot seat
There were raised eyebrows when I declared my intention to return to regional publishing. After all, local newspapers are dead, right? Well, wrong. More than 10 years since my last stint as an editor, the newsroom was calling and I had an urge to prove I still had the...
Great acclaim for a popular winner
Integrity. Authority. Empathy. The three attributes in the journalism of the late Sir Charles Wheeler identified by this year’s winner of the much-prized award that bears his name and that this magazine is proud to sponsor. And what Steve Rosenberg, our acclaimed new...
The BBC scoops our Cudlipp Prize
A capacity audience at the London Press Club Awards at Stationers’ Hall, London, applauded Sue Mitchell, of the BBC Investigations Unit, winner of The Cudlipp Prize, the prestigious award sponsored by the BJR. The judging panel chaired by the journalist, academic and...
