Four months on from our investigation into address book importing, the ‘opt in’ issue has reared its troublesome head again, with the introduction of Facebook Places.
What’s a journalist? And do they understand law?
Aug 20th, 2010
…asks the home of Fleet Street nostalgia, Gentlemen Ranters. From its weekly email:
…Do you need training in order to be a journalist? And if so, training in what disciplines?
Nobody seems to do shorthand any more; nobody seems to understand newspaper law or how local and central government works; nobody appears particularly well-versed in “newspaper practice”.
So… [...]
iPhone app developer Dave Addey has been investigating the Conservatives’ iPhone app used for canvassing: its general election app asks users to pass on their friends’ details, using data extracted from the users’ iPhone address books, in addition to noting their voting intention.
Calling the hypothetical app user ‘Peter’, and calling his hypothetical unwitting friend, ‘Bob’, [...]
The British media’s phone hacking blind spot
Apr 5th, 2010
Bank holiday weekend brought more phone hacking revelations from the Guardian’s Nick Davies, with new accusations about Scotland Yard’s handling of the investigation into phone hacking at News of the World in 2006. It also brought a strongly-argued piece questioning Andy Coulson’s position as Tory communications chief, by Daily Mail political columnist Peter Oborne, writing in the Observer.
Firstly, what’s [...]
So, if you blinked you might have missed it, but BBC Newsnight tonight began its programme with an apology for allegations about oil trader Trafigura that it now retracts. But Newsnight’s original claims were never tested in a court of law: the BBC conceded in the face of Trafigura’s libel action, by agreeing to pay [...]
Chris Atkins (allegedly) threatened with injunction
Oct 23rd, 2009
Update: When following this up for Journalism.co.uk, I put the necessary calls into the law firm concerned. The individual himself rang me to deny he had requested an injunction against Starsuckers. He claimed he had never tried to injunct them: “I haven’t. Never tried to; it’s not my nature. I just wanted to make sure [...]
How on earth to balance freedom of speech as outlined in the European Convention of Human Rights with the moderation of obnoxious and damaging views?
Channel 4 News has just neatly illustrated this conflict which lies at the heart of two very high profile UK stories this week:
Jon Snow was interviewing, among others, John Kampfner, chief [...]
A campaign to balance inaccurate news reporting about the cervical cancer jab is working. Malcolm Coles, SEO consultant and blogger, informs me that NHS pages with information about the HPV immunisation are steadily getting bumped up the Google rankings, displacing misleading and deliberately alarming newspaper reports. He says:
“The three NHS pages I was targeting are [...]
A polite letter about online accuracy
Sep 7th, 2009
I rarely feel the urge to submit a letter to a newspaper, thus inadvertently supporting a trend that sees women write in far less frequently than men.
But here’s what I’d write in response to Joan Smith’s piece in the Independent on Sunday about the dangers of the web. I tried to post a similar point [...]
Data, perspective… and Comment is Hidden? #BBCExpenses
Jun 25th, 2009
Today I wasn’t sure what to do with the arrival of the BBC executives’ expenses data. I didn’t find it quite bang on 11.30am - new releases were tucked into various corners of the BBC Freedom of Information site. I reproduced all the PDF links here on the Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog. @PaulMcNally, outgoing Press Gazette [...]
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