This is a written up version of the speech that I gave to the Don’t Spy On Us day of action on 7 June 2014. The event sold out its 500-seat venue. At the end of my session I gave …
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Based on the citation I delivered, conferring on Mike Holderness NUJ membership of honour. Mike Holderness might look like a mild-mannered, middle-aged anarchist – but the man we have before us is a warrior. For the past quarter century, he …
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Article originally published in the August/September 2013 edition of The Journalist A decade ago, Glasgow-based freelance Lucy Sweet, was one of Britain’s top-earning freelance journalists. Her tv reviews for The Sunday Express netted her £650 a week, and with regular …
John Bartlett had interviewed dozens of witnesses and victims, obtained five affidavits from abused boys and combed over his story with one of London’s foremost barristers. But as the magazine carrying his biggest ever story came back from the printers, …
Golfball revolution: the life and death of Britain’s alternative press Read more »
Published originally in the Feb/Mar 2013 edition of The Journalist Researching an article about the popularity of social media platforms last month, Guardian technology journalist Jemima Kiss asked for opinions on Twitter. Within a couple of hours, she had 75 …
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