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 [...]
Apr 1st, 2010
Some news! At the end of June I’ll be leaving my reporter job at Journalism.co.uk for pastures new after (just under) two very happy years in Brighton.
I’ve accepted a three year MPhil / PhD studentship at City University London’s new Centre of Law, Justice and Journalism.
My research will be exploring legal restraints on the media: [...]
Mar 28th, 2010
On 18 April 2010 I’m doing the Brighton marathon, my first…
I’m doing it for two fantastic charities (money split 50-50)
The MS Trust, a national charity that supports people affected by multiple sclerosis
The Kenward Trust, a Kent-based charity that provides drug and alcohol addiction support
I’d really appreciate it if you could spare a pound or two [...]
Here’s a campaign with a very powerful message and it would only take a minute of your time to re-tweet and sign. It’s incredibly simple. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NoChildDetention/
You can find @stop_child_det on Twitter and on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139016764791
From ECDN.org, launched last year:
End Child Detention Now is a citizens’ initiative which sprang from a successful campaign to release [...]
Jan 18th, 2010
I wasn’t convinced that this Guardian post really added much to the ’should journalists code’ debate (something we didn’t really discuss at news:rewired) but I thought Tony Hirst’s contribution was worth pulling out from the comments:
I was also at at the news:rewired event where Hadfield made his announcement, getting a feeling for the extent to [...]
Jan 15th, 2010
I’m mostly offline until Monday but I thought I’d post a few of my highlights from today’s news:rewired event. Keep an eye on Journalism.co.uk / http://newsrewired.com for further session material / video content etc. It felt a little odd not to be live-blogging (Laura and I left that to the student blogger team and the many other [...]
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 [...]
If our marketing has been anywhere near successful, you should have heard about news:rewired by now - 14 January 2010. It’s Journalism.co.uk’s first big conference event, marking our 10th anniversary (my boss John Thompson set it up in 1999). It’s been fun getting it going and the delegate / speaker list looks pretty damn good, [...]