The Daily Mail blunders over Twitter, again
Fresh from the Daily Mail’s triumph of journalism where it exposed an MP sending tweets in the middle of the night… … Read the full post »
Here are my posts about the state of journalism and how it is carried out, mainly focusing on the UK but with the occasional piece about other countries too.
For more on the topic, see my book Bad News: what the headlines don’t tell us.
Fresh from the Daily Mail’s triumph of journalism where it exposed an MP sending tweets in the middle of the night… … Read the full post »
In an unusual and dramatic turn in the long-running story of the News of the World (editor at the time, Andy Coulson) and the hacking into the voicemail systems of people in the public eye… … Read the full post »
Woman in sumo wrester suit assaulted her ex-girlfriend in gay pub after she waved at man dressed as a Snickers bar. … Read the full post »
No, I didn’t either. But that’s what Polly Toynbee says in The Guardian. Is she right? … Read the full post »
A common thread running through the Press Complaints Commission’s defence of its work is that it has been primarily created to deal with individual complaints, rather than being a regulator whose role is to improve the press overall. … Read the full post »
The Mail on Sunday has made a basic and repeated series of factual errors in a piece today about Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone. … Read the full post »
Of course, if newspaper paywalls don’t turn out to work outside the existing niches such as the Financial Times… … Read the full post »
Yesterday I took part in a panel on this topic at #Jeecamp2010. You can watch again the live tweeting of the event here. The main point I made was that the combination of opening up government data, extending freedom of information and publishing details of government contracts will provide a flood of raw material. It … Read the full post »
Since the start of the year, I have been tracking how newspapers do at reporting the political opinion polls they commission. … Read the full post »
Over the last 48 hours quite a few otherwise decent political journalists have made a hash of things, confusing a vote of no confidence in a government with a vote to force an early general election under a system of fixed-term Parliaments. … Read the full post »