Evidence against executives and editors is piling up in the civil courts, but newspapers are just buying their way out of trouble. The right place for this is the criminal courts, which means the Metropolitan Police must act. Read the rest of this entry »
The Cairncross Review and the Crisis of Journalism – Brian Cathcart
1 02 2019
Can Dame Frances Cairncross find a way of subsidising journalism without giving ministers the power to syphon money to their corrupt press chums – and without enabling Big Tech to buy itself freedom from scrutiny?Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Brian Cathcart, Byline.com, Cairncross Review
Categories : Journalism
Brexit, Leveson 2 and why 2019 could be the year for press reform – Brian Cathcart
14 12 2018
On no fewer than five occasions in the course of his inquiry into the press in 2011-12, Brian Leveson expressed to witnesses and the public a concern that his report might end up gathering dust on the second shelf of a professor of journalism’s bookcase – nothing more than historical evidence of wasted effort. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, The Conversation
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Racism in the Press: the lessons of the Raheem Sterling case – Brian Cathcart
11 12 2018
Calls for change from within the press are welcome but will make no lasting difference. The only workable remedy is effective, independent regulation that takes racism seriously.Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: Brian Cathcart, Byline.com, Racism, Raheem Sterling
Categories : Journalism, Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Andrew Norfolk of the Times, More bad journalism – Brian Cathcart
2 12 2018
The chief investigative reporter of the Times newspaper, Andrew Norfolk, has published another article displaying his inability to adhere to basic journalistic standards. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, Byline.com, The Times, Transparency Project
Categories : Journalism
Facebook backs the wrong horse in UK local journalism – Brian Cathcart
24 11 2018
Facebook has announced it will donate £4.5m to pay for training, salaries and expenses for 80 people who will be placed with five existing local and regional news organisations in the UK for two years. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, Byline.com, Facebook
Categories : Journalism
Coming tomorrow: a new subsidy for our corrupt press? – Brian Cathcart
28 10 2018
A likely Budget cut in VAT on online publications will be presented as a boost for journalism. In reality it is a bung for the pro-Tory billionaires behind the Mail, the Sun and the Telegraph. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, Byline.com, VAT
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism
IPSO: The Toothless Puppet Rolls over for its masters (again) – Brian Cathcart
26 10 2018
‘We order you to print this correction on page 2,’ said IPSO. ‘We’d rather not,’ replied the Mail on Sunday. ‘Oh dear,’ said IPSO, ‘in that case page 8 will do.’ Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, Byline.com, Front page corrections, IPSO
Categories : Media Regulation
“Muslim fostering”: Times journalism utterly discredited – Brian Cathcart
8 09 2018
It has taken more than six months, but the final judgment in what the Times portrayed as the Tower Hamlets ‘Muslim fostering’ case has finally been released in summary form [pdf] and it is devastating for the newspaper and its chief investigative reporter, Andrew Norfolk.Comments : 4 Comments »
Tags: Brian Cathcart, The Conversation, The Times
Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation
Sam Allardyce, the Telegraph and another IPSO Failure – Brian Cathcart
3 09 2018
Read the press and you’d think the sting had been vindicated. Cut through IPSO’s tangled prose, however, and you find the truth is otherwise. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, Daily Telegraph, IPSO
Categories : Media Regulation
