WHY THE IFJ AND EFJ SHOULD REMAIN UNITED Last summer I participated in a Zoom call with several Ukrainian journalists who had been helped by an emergency fund established by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional group, …
People’s Parliament unites and empowers people with learning disabilities to fight for change – we must ensure its survival Article originally published in The Independent, 29 November 2022. Here is a chilling statistic. During the pandemic adults with learning disabilities …
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It is reassuring to witness John Edwards and Maurice Frankel share a platform and nod over shared understandings. Edwards is the recently-installed Information Commissioner, responsible, among other things, for regulating provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (2000). Frankel has …
Originally published in the October 2022 edition of InPublishing magazine. A bright future is within the grasp of the UK’s news media – but it is not assured. It requires imaginative cross-industry effort and resources: fail at this and a …
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Union pressure is critical to keep journalists free from legislative binds… Read the 9,887 words with which Judge Mark Lucraft upheld Chris Mullin’s right to protect his sources, and one thing shines through. The case law cited will be very …
Opinion column originally published in Amateur Photographer 5 October 2019 Photojournalism succeeds because of its apparent veracity. That ‘the camera doesn’t lie’ is at the heart of the reportage captured through the lens. Of course we know that images can …
Reporting for Dutch tv station Omroep Flevoland, I chronicled lorry driver Jelle Post’s, successful bid to explain away the £25 million worth of cocaine and ketamine that found amongst his cargo in July 2020. In Dutch law, the surname of …
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Review of David King Designer Activist Visual Historian, by Rick Poynor Like many1970s teenagers, a postal order dispatched to Finsbury Park, London initiated my engagement with politics. I received by return several sheets of lapel stickers, a poster and some …
I gave an interview to the makers of this film, expecting only a sentence or two of mine to make the final cut. I was surprised and delighted to find that my arguement runs right through the completed package. https://youtu.be/Q30EN4vbouU
Originally published in the Morning Star 7 September 2020 DURING an impasse in Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in February, I found myself sharing a bench in the court’s public area with three track-suited men in their early 20s. Another case …
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