Spending ten days in East Asia prompts me to these thoughts about the variety of methods that governments and other powerful forces employ to stop journalists from reporting things they are determined to suppress. It's the same the whole world over. The irony is that...
Amidst the talk of journalism's decline, bankruptcy and loss of purpose, I sense a fightback. Journalism is rediscovering the serious role it must play in an open society. On the really big issues -- war, the facts of history, and the biggest economic crash in living...
The Daily Telegraph's multiple scoop about British MPs expenses claims may not quite have the political explosive power of the Watergate or the Pentagon Papers stories. But it has led to what's been nicely dubbed a very British revolution, which may or may not end up...
The spectre of a global economic crash may have motivated world leaders at the G20 summit in London to seek new rules to replace a postwar system that failed. What about the great information system built by the world's traditional news media? That too enjoyed its...
I am writing this in London just one day before the birth of CFOM - Britain's first university-based Centre for Freedom of the Media. I await the day with excitement and some nervousness (London is lying under the heaviest snow for 18 years). What I do know is that...