Keir Starmer reveals when it’s ok for journalists to blag, hack and steal
Journalists can break the law – they can hack phones, they can buy drugs and they can bribe public officials, if there is sufficient public interest in doing so. The decision on that public interest...
View ArticleAn impassioned response to Ashley Highfield’s ‘Mumsnet’ vision for Johnston...
Former regional press journalist and author of the SubScribe blog Liz Gerard has written an impassioned defence of local newspapers and provides a skeptical response to Johnston Press chief executive...
View ArticleMail Online’s £25m revenue is still a drop in the ocean for Associated...
According to publisher Martin Clarke (reported by the Guardian) Mail Online is on course to “break even” this year with revenue of £25m. But of course, “break even” is a rather subjective term in this...
View ArticleThe pursuit of 35 per cent profit margins is where Ashley Highfield’s 2020...
Johnston Press is known in some circles, rather unkindly, as a zombie company. This is because in blunt financial terms the main reason it exists is to enable it to continue to service its £351.7m bank...
View ArticleAs Daily Mail campaigns against online porn, Mail Online story url promises...
I wholeheartedly back the Daily Mail’s campaign for a new system requiring internet providers to filter out online porn. And I know ‘Block Online Porn’ is aimed at stronger stuff than the glamorous...
View ArticleCrone, Myler, Hinton and Murdochs must all take a share of the blame for the...
If any politician had treated a News International title the way its executives have treated the Commons Culture committee they would have been crucified in print. So Rupert Murdoch can’t complain...
View ArticlePress Gazette May edition: Booze, breaking up with the Mercury and the...
SUBSCRIBE TO PRESS GAZETTE TODAY – THREE ISSUES FOR £3. THE FIRST 100 NEW SUBSCRIBERS THIS MONTH GET THE CURRENT EDITION SENT FREE AS SOON AS THEY SIGN UP In the May edition of Press Gazette magazine...
View ArticlePress Gazette to return as a weekly e-magazine (with your help!)
SIGN UP NOW TO RECEIVE PRESS GAZETTE – JOURNALISM WEEKLY Ever since Press Gazette magazine went monthly four years ago I’ve had journalists telling me they miss their weekly fix of journalism news and...
View ArticleSly Bailey: £15m for 10 years of managed decline
The year 2005 is seen by many as the high water mark of print newspaper profitability in the UK. For Trinity Mirror it was the year the share-price peaked at a record £7. The company had returned...
View ArticleAre three out of four UK internet users logging on to Mail Online every month?
Can it really be true that three out of four people who have ever used the internet in the UK are logging on to Mail Online every month? Somehow I doubt it that even the phenomenally successful Mail...
View ArticleIssue one of Press Gazette – Journalism Weekly
In case you missed last week’s launch edition of Press Gazette – Journalism weekly, here it is. // Press Gazette – Journalism Weekly is a page-turning e-edition optimised for mobile devices, laptops...
View ArticlePress Gazette -Journalism Weekly: The secret of online news alchemy revealed...
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View ArticleDPP Keir Starmer answers questions from Press Gazette readers about...
The fact that more than 50 individuals have been arrested by police investigating hacking and corruption underlines the fact this time the Met are bending over backwards to ensure that no-one can...
View ArticleInterview with Nick Ut 40 years after the ‘napalm girl’ picture: Proof that...
If you ever find yourself wondering whether journalism is a noble profession and whether it can make a difference I would recommend reading my interview with Nick Ut – which appeared first in last...
View ArticlePress Gazette – Journalism Weekly, issue five – read it here
// Highlights of the latest issue of Press Gazette – Journalism Weekly include: The Financial Times NUJ chapel raises questions over the financial management of the union. Northcliffe boss Steve...
View ArticleWill they who pay the piper call the tune? Flaws and positives in the owners’...
If there was any question left that the British media establishment has failed to grasp the enormity of the issues raised by the hacking scandal this should have been dispelled by Presbof’s...
View ArticleNews Corp split comment: We won’t have Murdoch to kick around any more
Rupert Murdoch insists that the decision to split publishing away from the rest of the News Corp empire has nothing to do with the hacking scandal. But nonetheless, it is difficult not to be reminded...
View ArticleIs The Sun’s ‘£600k’ cover ad evidence of a title being fattened up for sale?
The decision to sell the front and back-pages of The Sun to an advertiser for the first time on Friday is the latest sign that News Corp is suddenly taking a much more hard-nosed approach to its...
View ArticleAnd then they came for me…the unprecedented wave of journalist arrests has...
To paraphrase Martin Neimoller, first they came for the News International journalists and I said nothing – because I hated Rupert Murdoch. Then they came for the Mirror journalists, and I said nothing...
View ArticleWill NI be moved by surge of support for sacked Sun features editor Matt Nixson?
My piece revisiting the case of Matt Nixson a year after his abrupt dismissal as features editor of The Sun has generated the most impassioned response of any story I’ve worked on at Press Gazette. The...
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