Blog posts tagged "Journalism"

February 23, 2012 11:21 am 26 Comments

The awards ceremony celebrating the best in the TV journalism business was too male, too white and as such, all too predictable.

January 23, 2012 7:05 pm 13 Comments

Channel 4 News Presenter Jon Snow gave the Hugh Cudlipp lecture at the London College of Communication. You can read the full text of his speech here.

July 19, 2011 6:51 am 47 Comments

"No one knows where it would end... Dublin? Madrid? Lisbon? Rome? Shiver our timbers... London?"

July 12, 2011 6:59 am 21 Comments

"The Queen's phone number sold by one of Her loyal Royal protection officers. The Prime Minister of the day's phone, family medical records and bank account raided illegally. Well, that's only the start."

July 5, 2011 2:38 pm 110 Comments

"This is a matter which touches many aspects of our public life - politics, policing, and media ethics - and potential conspiracies between several of them."

July 15, 2010 7:45 am 29 Comments

OK folks - so there are some teething problems - ‘tis true that when you arrive at Snowblog you find yourself back in January.

September 10, 2009 9:00 am No Comments

“We’re entitled to the protection of the First Amendment – no more.” So read my angry overnight text from an old New York Times friend with whom I survived reporting the civil war in El Salvador in the early nineteen eighties. We can be scandalised that the journalistic activities of Stephen Farrell, working in Afghanistan [...]

September 3, 2009 4:22 pm No Comments

So Terry Wogan considers newscasters as “self-important” and the job a “piece of cake“. He’s quite right.. or nearly right. It’s a piece of cake so long as you can absent yourself from any involvement in generating the material that you are reading. The moment you combine newsreading with actual journalism, going after stories, trying [...]

March 23, 2009 4:18 pm No Comments

A thought ahead of the opening of The Boat That Rocked, the movie about the pirate radio stations and Radio Caroline in particular. If it hadn’t been for the closing down of these stations and the change in the law that allowed legal commercial radio stations, I might very well never be where I am [...]

11:44 am 45 Comments

I’m very struck by the response to the condom debate sparked by our interview following the Pope’s comments last week. More than 50 comments, and an interesting spread. I have I suppose what the Catholic church would call a “confession” to make. I did not handle it well. One must be honest about these things.