Editorial Too close for comfort
Not finally…
David Elstein advises the next BBC boss
Steve Barnett expects better behaviour
Donald Macintyre wants action
Tom Leonard analyses the Trump affect
Roy Greenslade Time to teach media literacy
Becky Chesson I get by with TikTok
Kari Kivinen How we do it in Finland
Steve Barnett & Julian Petley Ofcom can’t go on like this
Julia Langdon Bill Hagerty, newspaperman
Tom Stoppard Two men in love with print
Mark Palmer Travel writers tell the truth
Stephen Glover It was, were we?
Sheraz Khan Rajput Inconvenient truths
book reviews:
Julian Petley asks where the papers were
Richard Tait won’t take things on trust
Liz Vercoe has stars in her eyes
Robert Fox wants to read stories
James Mates finds humanity in a hotel
Roy Greenslade explores a Hitler fan
David Torrance revisits an honours fix
Quotes of the quarter
Geoffrey Bindman remembered
Xwatch
The way we were
Say what you like about social media, it tells you what people think. When Michael Crick invited journalists to remember occasions on which Peter Mandelson had tried to get them sacked, X – formerly Twitter – buzzed with memories of his attempts to unseat the...
Bill Hagerty, who edited the British Journalism Review for a decade from 2002, died on December 26. He had been closely involved with the magazine for most of its 36 years and was one of only three editors. He joined the editorial board in 1998, chaired it from 2012...
Odd, on the face of it, that the government’s recent choice of agencies to deliver £1.68billion-worth of what Campaign called “marketing and communications” across the public sector, received so little attention in the mainstream press. True, this spend will be over...
The regulator is too timid to take on the rich and powerful in important issues of impartiality, with a result that is dangerous for our democracy
Does the travel industry buy good copy by giving holidays to travel writers? Or does the truth come out whatever?
One of the founders of The Independent wonders if the title fulfilled the promise of its early years
The founders of the BJR in 1989 were delighted to secure the occasional and friendly counsel of Geoffrey Bindman, who had founded a law firm in 1974 that aimed to “protect the rights and reputations of local Londoners” and act for progressive organisations and...