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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

Bill Hagerty

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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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 –...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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