Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 5 March 2012 at 12:00
Tags: Journalism
After what I thought was a somewhat shaky start for The Sun Sunday a week ago – Britain’s newest national newspaper showed signs of getting into its stride yesterday. And to be fair to editor Dominic Mohan and his team, they were given just a week’s notice to get the new title into print – [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 2 March 2012 at 12:37
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The March edition of Press Gazette sees part one of John Dale’s riveting study of a Day in the Life of British Journalism. From the Congleton Chronicle to the Kigali bureau of Reuters – it’s inspiring to read about the huge range of stuff British journalists get up to every day. We were going [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 27 February 2012 at 09:37
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Quizzes by Quibblo.com | SnapApp Quiz Apps Sun editor Dominic Mohan revealed in a diary column for the Sunday Times that the first he knew The Sun was launching a Sunday edition was when he was summonsed to see Rupert Murdoch exactly one week from launch day. So to create a new paper from scratch [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 16 February 2012 at 09:27
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In the light of last year’s Chris Jefferies contempt case journalists should be careful about the briefing which is now coming out of News Corp’s Management and Standards Committee about the alleged crimes committed by the arrested Sun journalists. We are now told that police off the record briefings led journalists to believe that Jefferies [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 13 February 2012 at 16:17
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Reading Trevor Kavanagh’s comment piece today in The Sun made me realise that the police witch hunt of Sun journalists is beginning to show disturbing parallels with Thames Valley Police’s persecution of Sally Murrer. Regular readers of Press Gazette will know that Murrer was repeatedly arrested, bugged, spied on and threatened with life imprisonment for [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 10 February 2012 at 11:56
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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. [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 9 February 2012 at 13:09
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 8 February 2012 at 09:05
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 7 February 2012 at 16:36
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 7 February 2012 at 10:08
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 3 February 2012 at 09:16
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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- [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 2 February 2012 at 10:20
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 1 February 2012 at 13:37
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 31 January 2012 at 09:07
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 30 January 2012 at 13:23
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 20 January 2012 at 17:04
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 11 January 2012 at 17:20
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 11 January 2012 at 10:18
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 6 January 2012 at 12:43
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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 [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Dominic Ponsford on 5 January 2012 at 13:55
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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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