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Why a free press can’t be dismantled to accommodate the ‘foibles’ of the rich and famous

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 10 February 2012 at 11:56
Tags: Journalism

Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre put forward a compelling case for intruding into the private lives of the rich and famous in his supplementary witness statement to the Leveson Inquiry. In it he quotes from a piece written gy Auberon Waugh for the New Statesman in the 1970s, defnding legendary Mail gossip writer Nigel Dempster. [...]

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News-Day: 8 February, 2012 – How was it for you?

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 9 February 2012 at 13:09
Tags: Journalism

Press Gazette wants to hear what you did yesterday for A Day in the Life of British Journalism – our project telling the story of one 24-hour news cycle. Reports are already coming in from all over the UK, and the world. Press Gazette contributing editor John Dale is pulling them together into one narrative as [...]

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Today is News-Day: A Day in the Life of British Journalism, tell us what you are doing

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 8 February 2012 at 09:05
Tags: Journalism

Don’t forget today is News-Day – Press Gazette’s project charting A Day in the Life of British Journalism. The day runs from 6am today (8 February) until 6am tomorrow. We want to hear from journalists serving British media of all kinds – nationals, regionals, broadcast, B2B, radio, mags – and all around the world. To [...]

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Times did a disservice to whole British press by dishonestly overturning Nightjack injunction

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 7 February 2012 at 16:36
Tags: Journalism

If you can’t believe the words of the UK’s “paper of record” when it is making a case at the High Court – what can you believe? For that reason,  and many others, today’s Nightjack’s revelations mark one of the most shocking turns of the Leveson Inquiry. It seems that Patrick Foster, then a 24-year-old [...]

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Dacre’s list – why Mail editor’s plan for a new press card system has some merit

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 7 February 2012 at 10:08
Tags: Journalism

Just moments after counsel for the Leveson Inquiry David Jay QC said yesterday: “let us assume, Mr Dacre, that licensing of journalists may well be unattractive to virtually everybody, including this Inquiry” – Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre went on to propose pretty much just that. To everyone’s surprise, Dacre suggested that one solution to [...]

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What do you think needs to be in Press Gazette’s Journalism Manifesto?

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 3 February 2012 at 09:16
Tags: Journalism

Follow @domponsford // We’ve had some great responses to the Journalism Manifesto so far – some of which will make it into a second draft of the document which we are going to send to both Lords Leveson and Hunt. Press Gazette is going to keep this “consultation” open until the end of next week- [...]

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Journalism Manifesto: Why we need to look at more than changing the plumbing of the press complaints system

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 2 February 2012 at 10:20
Tags: Journalism

Today Press Gazette launches a Journalism Manifesto – ten ways in which we think British journalism can learn from the hacking scandal and emerge from it stronger and more honest. At the heart of the manifesto is the idea that journalism needs be about more than pushing stories to the limits of  what we can get [...]

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February edition of Press Gazette magazine: A manifesto for change in British journalism

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 1 February 2012 at 13:37
Tags: Journalism

I had a cracking exclusive interview lined up for this month’s mag but, alas, at the last minute the individual thought better of going on the record. Perhaps understandably in view of the current Leveson inquisition – few high profile journalists in the national press want to place their heads above the parapet. Such are [...]

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Poll: Do you understand Government NHS reforms, and do you agree with them?

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 31 January 2012 at 09:07
Tags: Journalism

Rival health mags – the Health Service Journal, Nursing Times and BMJ – today put aside their differences to campaign for a stop to proposed Government reforms of the NHS with a rare join editorial. The BMJ also asked its readership of doctors if they even understood the need for the reforms – the vast [...]

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Arrest of Sun four is most shocking hacking development since News of the World closure

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 30 January 2012 at 13:23
Tags: Journalism

The arrest of four of The Sun’s most senior journalists on Saturday morning was – for me – the most shocking development in the hacking scandal since the closure of the News of the World in July. It should be noted that these arrests are linked to the hacking scandal only in the sense that [...]

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How can Leveson hope to find out what is really happening in newsrooms without anonymous evidence?

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 20 January 2012 at 17:04
Tags: Journalism

The decision of Associated Newspapers, supported by Telegraph Media Group, to seek judicial review challenging the hearing of anonymous evidence at the Leveson Inquiry is one of the biggest oddities of this saga. I am sure the news sections of the Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday in particular would look very different if anonymous sources [...]

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Press Gazette launches News on the Move, on 7 March at Thomson Reuters

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 11 January 2012 at 17:20
Tags: Journalism

Many consider it no coincidence that an explosion in the use of smartphones to access news and other content online in the UK has coincided with a sharp drop in print newspaper sales over the last 18 months. That’s why Press Gazette has launched a new conference, in association with Thomson Reuters, to provide a [...]

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Don’t exclude tabloids and ordinary journalists from new cosy consensus at Leveson Inquiry

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 11 January 2012 at 10:18
Tags: Journalism

There seems to a very different atmosphere at the Leveson Inquiry this week. Before Christmas – the likes of Piers Morgan, Neville Thurlbeck and so on – were given at times quite abrasive-feeling cross-examinations. Thurlbeck said on his blog that he felt the atmosphere towards tabloid journalists from the inquiry team was sneering. Earlier this [...]

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Press Gazette’s letter to Lord Leveson: Don’t forget the vast majority of hard-working honest journalists

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 6 January 2012 at 12:43
Tags: Journalism

The January edition of Press Gazette devotes 12 pages to giving a Lord Leveson a different view of British journalism from the one which has been on display at the Royal Courts of Justice. The following is a copy of the covering letter I have sent to Lord Leveson, along with the relevant pages from [...]

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The Filkin report comment: Police officers need to get closer to journalists, not more distant

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 5 January 2012 at 13:55
Tags: Journalism

It seems to me that the untold story about Elizabeth Filkin’s  report into Met Police dealings with the media is that over 56 pages she has brought to light no new evidence of improper dealings that I can see. But beyond her rather obvious advice that police officers shouldn’t get legless with journalists or be [...]

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The Rod Liddle article which threatened Stephen Lawrence trial as it had barely begun

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 4 January 2012 at 11:46
Tags: Journalism

Three days after the start of the Stephen Lawrence trial the Spectator published an article which apparently had the potential to undermine it. I have to be careful here because this matter could see the magazine, its editor, and journalist Rod Liddle face trial for Contempt of Court. But it is a matter of public [...]

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Dacre’s strident defence of ‘outrageous’ Lawrence front page should be a warning to Leveson

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 3 January 2012 at 16:29
Tags: Journalism

The convictions today of Gary Dobson and David Norris for the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence 18 years  ago have prompted Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre to mount a strident defence of the risk-taking tabloid journalism that helped bring about the verdict. It may not be a coincidence that Dacre’s words come at a [...]

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New address and telephone numbers for Press Gazette editorial

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 3 January 2012 at 08:36
Tags: Journalism

Press Gazette has moved from John Carpenter Street in London a few hundred yards up the road to Boundaries House, 91 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6HR. We also have new telephone numbers. If you have a story, please call news editor (online) Andrew Pugh on 0207 336 5327. My new number is 0207 336 5211.

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Guardian admits that it should have qualified the Milly Dowler ‘false hope’ allegation

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 27 December 2011 at 13:14
Tags: Journalism

Just under two weeks after doubts first emerged about The Guardian’s reporting of the Milly Dowler false hope claim – the paper has admitted that it should have reported the story differently. Its mistake was to report unproven allegations as fact – and to repeat that mistake many times. In an editorial published on 23 [...]

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Happy Christmas from Press Gazette – see you on January 3

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 23 December 2011 at 08:06
Tags: Journalism

Press Gazette will be running a reduced online news service over the Christmas period but we will be back in harness on 3 January, 2012. After today there will be no more daily journalism newsletters from us until 3 January. Happy Christmas and best wishes for a happy New Year to all our readers.

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