A selection of think-pieces by William Horsley, Nicholas Jones, and Masha Lipman "Euro elections: newspaper websites break new ground in challenging radio and television" (PDF ) By Nicholas Jones 15.6.2009 Political journalism: the perils of writing to a...
Can the ICC offer legal protection to targeted journalists? On April 7 2014, Judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng spoke at the BBC-CFOM Symposium on the protection of journalists and the issue of impunity held at BBC Broadcasting House in London. She delivered the most...
By Sara McConnell “And to you, the press, I say, shame, shame on all of you”. The words of the coroner at the recent inquest into the suicide of transsexual primary school teacher Lucy Meadows sum up what many people clearly feel about this country’s press. They...
By Tim Luckhurst Britain’s newspaper industry has responded to the Leveson Report with commendable speed and intelligence. Brian Leveson took hearings for eight months before he started to write. But journalists understand that a job worth doing well must be done...
By Eric Barendt The Leveson Report provides a compelling case for radical reform of press law and regulation. Only the most hard-hearted of journalists, for whom in Paul McMullan’s words ‘[p]rivacy is for paedos…privacy is evil’ could fail to be shocked by the...
By Angela Martinez Read more: Tunisia: Old and New Problems About the author Angela Martinez studied journalism at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and International Relations at the University of Birmingham. She has professional experience in both Spain and the...
To the UN Inter-Agency meeting on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity in Vienna on 22-23 November 2012 This is a transcript of the video from the symposium “Media responses to matters of life and death” held in BBC new broadcasting house on 18 october...
By Hamid Mir, Executive Editor of Geo News TV, Pakistan’s most popular private TV channel When I got my first death threat almost two decades ago, I did not take it too seriously. It was an exciting time to be a journalist. Since then, I have lost several jobs, mainly...