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Will readers rise to greet The New Day? Here's what I thought of Britain's...
The New Day, Trinity Mirror’s attempt to breathe life into the generally moribund world of UK national daily newspapers, has been launched after a £5m advertising campaign and much industry speculation...
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Are people getting a bit tired of being lectured to by do-gooding celebrities?
Veteran foreign correspondent and broadcaster Michael Buerk is getting tired of “bleeding heart” celebrities. In an interview in the latest issue of the Radio Times, Buerk said that he was “a little...
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Panama Papers: media attacks on Cameron may have more to do with Brexit than...
Taxing times for the PM.Daily MailIn an era in which public trust of traditional media is slowly rising from the low point of the phone-hacking scandals and the Leveson inquiry, the Panama Papers has...
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Finally, the truth about Hillsborough (but you won't read it on the front of...
As Jared Ficklin wrote here, the verdicts returned at the inquest into the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 completely vindicate the 27-year campaign for justice resolutely undertaken by the families of...
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New Day barely dawned: here's why UK's latest paper closed after just two months
So, barely two months – and 50 editions – since Trinity Mirror launched its bright new newspaper venture, The New Day, the company has announced its closure. Confirming widespread industry speculation...
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BBC gets out of the kitchen as government turns up the heat
More than 11,000 recipes will go in the bin as the BBC drops it's much-loved Food site.BBCI suppose it says a lot about our current national obsession with all matters gastronomic that the focal point...
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Come on Wales – outrage over Mars support for England football team is storm...
Welsh football fans are up in arms. They are calling for a boycott of Mars bars after claims that the confectionery super company has “snubbed” Wales and its fans by flaunting its support for England...
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'I wish you'd told us that before': Sun readers (and former editor) wake up...
Providing perhaps a little schadenfreude-related light relief amid the seemingly endless EU referendum coverage was the news that The Sun columnist and former editor, Kelvin Mackenzie, was suffering...
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'Our casualties not heavy': how British press covered the Battle of the Somme
Vickers machine gun crew with gas masksJohn Warwick Brooke/Imperial War Museum, CC BY-SAThe battle of the Somme, which began on July 1, 1916, was the most brutal encounter of World War I, characterised...
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Tony Blair took Britain to war in 2003 – but most of Fleet Street marched...
When, in October 2015, Tony Blair apologised for the use of “wrong” intelligence in the run up to the 2003 Iraq war, his contrition was qualified. Speaking to Fareed Zakaria on CNN, the former prime...
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Will Roger Ailes's departure after sexual harrassment allegations hobble Fox...
Onward!Johnny Silvercloud via Flickr, CC BY-SAJust as the US media struggled – along with everyone else – to make sense of Donald Trump’s nomination at the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio, one...
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Regional newspapers are starving to death but can local journalism survive?
Local papers highlight important community issues.Bobbie Johnson, CC BY-SAIn October 2015, at a cost of £220m, Trinity Mirror, the parent company of Mirror newspapers and the Sunday People, took...
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How the horror of war gets lost in the media's short compassion cycle
Few images have captured the peculiar horrors of the war in Syria more powerfully than the photograph and short video that emerged recently showing five-year-old Omran Daqneesh sitting in an ambulance...
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Sam Allardyce 'sting' is the latest chapter in a new era of investigative...
The manager of the England football team, Sam Allardyce, has resigned just two months into his job, apparently “by mutual consent” – whatever that means – after being splashed all over the pages of the...
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PR firms are becoming more powerful, but good journalism still prevails
Mission accomplished: putting a positive spin on Iraq.White HouseRecent articles about the public relations firm Bell Pottinger are a stark reminder of the power and pervasiveness of PR in today’s...
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Ian Hislop's right: Murdoch's cosy relationship with Tories should be...
The reciprocal closeness in the relationship between journalism and power is a prominent feature of British political history. In times of war or national crisis, media organisations are expected more...
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Lego vs Daily Mail strikes at paper's weak spot: its advertising revenue
The Art of the Brick / Nathan Sawaya, CC BY-SAPerhaps providing a welcome diversion to all the apocalyptic press reaction following the election of Donald Trump is the news that Lego, the Danish...
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Everything you wanted to know about @realdonaldtrump's Twitter habit
Another day, another tweet, another incident. This time Donald Trump, the prolific and seemingly indiscriminate tweeter who just happens to be leader of the free world has damaged diplomatic relations...
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Brand Beckham will weather the email storm
No such thing as bad publicity?The SunIf nothing else, the David Beckham email scandal has provided some welcome respite from the apparently perpetual news agenda of Trump and Brexit. It seems that the...
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Private Eye circulation soars as readers turn to satire – funny that
Fifty years of poking fun and holding power to account.Private EyeIt’s a fair bet that champagne corks have been popping at Gnome House, the abode of Lord Gnome, the (fictional) proprietor of the...
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If Facebook ruled the world: Mark Zuckerberg's vision of a digital future
GongTo / Shutterstock.comMark Zuckerberg, the 32-year-old multi-billionaire co-founder and CEO of Facebook has published his manifesto for the future. It’s a comprehensive vision, running at nearly...
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Their Finest – and how WWII triggered a bold cinematic renaissance
London's St. Paul's Cathedral during the great fire raid of December 29, 1940, during World War Two.ShutterstockAfter some very positive reviews and a Bill Nighy attended premiere at the Welsh College...
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Why Car Share is the one of the greatest comedies ever made
John (Peter Kay) and Kayleigh (Sian Gibson) in BBC One's Car Share.BBC/Goodnight Vienna ProductionsThis evening sees the final episode of series two of Car Share, the Peter Kay and Sian Gibson BBC One...
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Election day's broadcast restrictions offer the nation a welcome respite
As someone addicted to the rhythms of BBC Radio 5 live every morning, it took me a few minutes to adjust to the seemingly new format of its breakfast show. Were it any other day, Nicky Campbell, Rachel...
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It's all too easy to switch off from bad news – and it's dangerous too
The full horror of the Grenfell Tower fire in west London is still to emerge. Like millions of others, I watched live as TV breakfast reports showed the blaze in its intensity and eyewitnesses told of...
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