Integrity is in short supply in many newsrooms, argues Michael Newman, while Eddie O’Brien says journalists must do more to reflect opposing views in their reports Clive Myrie nails down much of what is eating away at the heart of modern written journalism (What is journalism for? The short answer: truth, 11 March). His piece also neatly ties together the debate about Piers Morgan and his exit from ITV before joining GB News as he undoubtedly will. When I was a trainee, Sir Harold Evans was our hero. He was fearless and opinionated, but we never doubted that his opinions were based on the principle of reporting with inbuilt integrity. I built my journalistic career on those principles. Yet today’s print media is dominated by publications that lack honesty and integrity. Columnists run amok with untruths, smears and blatant racialism. Then they attack social media platforms for being out of control.This from the fourth estate which hacked personal phones of hundreds of people, which accessed the phone of a missing child, and which ran a character assassination of an innocent man (Christopher Jefferies). That is the tip of the iceberg. We now have the spectacle of Mr Morgan, who was fired when he published fake photos of alleged British army atrocities. Is he a role model for modern journalism? I hope not. Our media is riven with these kinds of people. There’s a battle to be won. I hope the Guardian and other like-minded journals can win. Michael Newman Shefford,... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2021-03-16 17:09:27 UTC ]
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Between 1,500 and 2,000 members of the North American literary world signed an open letter offering support to trans and nonbinary communities. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-10-09 21:31:58 UTC ]
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An author remains frustrated that publishers favor fictionalized stories over true accounts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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An open letter expressing “love and solidarity for the trans and non-binary community”, spearheaded by authors Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Daisy Johnson, has garnered support from more than 200 writers, including Malorie Blackman, Jeanette Winterson and Joanne Harris. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-30 14:25:47 UTC ]
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Amanda Craig has been dropped as a competition judge by women’s writing magazine Mslexia over her signing of a letter to the Times in defence of J K Rowling. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-30 08:48:57 UTC ]
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A selection of Van Gogh’s correspondence gives us a fuller picture of the man behind the mercurial reputation. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-17 13:39:17 UTC ]
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In a previous story, I demonstrated that the quantity of coverage devoted by the print media to Donald Trump is without historical precedent. In 2018, “Trump” was the fourth most-used word in the New York Times. On average, Trump was directly mentioned two to three times in every article, and... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-09-08 18:00:03 UTC ]
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IN 1889, the science fiction writer Jules Verne and his son, Michel, envisioned that, in a thousand years, there would be a personally curated newsfeed. What’s really remarkable about that futuristic prediction, says author Rob Brotherton in his new book, Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News, is... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-09-05 17:00:41 UTC ]
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Nicholson Baker recounts his attempts at research using the Freedom of Information Act. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-08-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Ross Bradshaw responds to an editorial on the boom in publishing We were interested to read that “Bookshops in big city centres … are wary of taking risks” (Editorial, 23 August), and that this autumn’s harvest includes books by Ant and Dec, Jilly Cooper and Arsène Wenger, which have the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-08-26 16:44:13 UTC ]
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Quercus has acquired Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal by Layla F Saad, intended to be an "official companion" to the original helping readers to recognise their privilege and combat racism. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 03:33:55 UTC ]
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An open letter published on Wednesday and signed by 30 members of the National Book Critics Circle entreaties its board of directors to make a number of changes related to its management and to issues of diversity. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
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A fan of the fairy tale weaver writes a letter to Hans Christian Andersen, and offers a list of Andersen tales and picture book biographies. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-08-12 10:33:00 UTC ]
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Lesley M.M. Blume tells the story of John Hersey’s influential article on the bomb’s aftermath. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-08-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Yesterday I stopped in at my local bookstore in London. It’s a small shop, but a good one, and seeing its doors open again was like hearing an ice-cream truck from a block away as a kid. I walked straight into traffic to cross the street to get there. Inside the reality of our time […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-06 08:49:19 UTC ]
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Lower production and distribution costs were enough to give Simon & Schuster a 9% increase in earnings in the second quarter, despite an 8% drop in sales. Digital revenue jumped 44% in the quarter. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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More than 2,500 people have signed an open letter expressing concern about “brutal” plans to make up to 400 people redundant at the Southbank Centre. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 16:31:29 UTC ]
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Oryx, the international journal of conservation published by Cambridge University Press, is to become Open Access from January next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 04:40:54 UTC ]
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Three academics have claimed Edinburgh University Press tried to censor their journal article on gender self-identification in an “exceptional breach of normal practice” over transphobia fears. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-03 01:23:20 UTC ]
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The Women’s Prize for Fiction is launching a crowdfunding campaign with publisher Unbound, in honour of its 25th anniversary, to create The Women’s Prize for Fiction Journal: Celebrating 25 years of #ReadingWomen. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-21 05:08:34 UTC ]
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