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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I already did a round-up post for the Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog but these some are some good points I’ve seen made since then.

Shane Richmond on the moral, as well as the legal issues raised.

The Orwell Prize director Jean Seaton on a voice silenced. This point seemed particularly pertinent: “Even odder is their [the Times'] main [...]

Any journalist who has read Nick Davies’ Flat Earth News is likely to think twice before picking up the phone to get the counter argument to ‘balance’ the story. 
Or if they still do subscribe to that formulaic news format (’he said-she said’ = ‘a row broke out today’) for the sake of it where it’s simply [...]