In this week’s Press Gazette magazine

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 8 May 2008 at 11:41
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Law, Magazines, National Newspapers, Online, Regional Newspapers

The News of the World’s investigations editor - the “fake sheik” Mazher Mahmood gives only his second ever in-depth press interview. Mahmood hits back at his critics - including the George Galloway and Roy Greenslade - he reveals some of the tricks of his trade and reveals that if he hadn’t become a journalist, he might have joined the police force.

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith writes an exclusive and moving account of the release of Al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj after six years in Gunatanamo Bay prison camp.

Befordshire on Sunday editor Steve Lowe reveals how no win, no fee libel rules threatened to push his paper out of business.

Profile interview with outgoing Gloucestershire Echo editor Anita Syvret. She claims that despite the “growing pains” of local newspapers entering the digital age, they are in fact stronger than ever.

And newspaper design expert Peter Sands puts the new look Daily Mirror through its paces - describing it as “one of the most radical changes to our national tabloids over the last three decades”.

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