WikiLeaks – A New Brand Of Journalism?
He has been described as a terrorist and a criminal by critics, but as a hero and a purveyor of truth by his supporters. On Saturday WikiLeaks announced on Twitter that the public face of their group,...
View ArticleCulture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s Career Hangs In The Balance Over BSkyB Bid
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s career is hanging in the balance after emails revealed inappropriate contact between him and James Murdoch over the BSkyB takeover. Labour has called for Hunt’s...
View ArticleA Fine Balance For Flybe
Flybe pilot Kate Moran in the cockpit (picture by James Millar) The one thing you learn as a journalist is that you are never going to make everyone happy. The other is that tactfulness can lead to a...
View ArticleOnline Journalism And The Sausage Ad Factory
Having been through the newspaper changes – thousands of redundancies, fewer pages, less news, dailies turning into weeklies, ad revenues plummeting – it’s obvious times have changed. In the early days...
View ArticleLance Armstrong From Legend To Myth
Getty Images Lance Armstrong. Those two words which have thrown the sporting world into turmoil. A legend was built up around the man who many people thought had fought cancer and not only survived,...
View ArticleLance Armstrong ‘Confesses’ To Oprah Winfrey
By Paul Haward, The Telegraph On any sensible reading of next week’s 90-minute Oprah Winfrey sit-down, tears will roll, victim status will be staked out and personal damage limitation will outweigh...
View ArticlePutin And His American PR Push
Vladimir Putin In April 2011, then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was asked an unusually flattering question by an American journalist: “Are you the coolest man in politics?” The interview,...
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