Given Nick Dav­ies’ story alleging mass mobile phone-hacking by journ­al­ists, it might per­haps be instruct­ive to look back at the journ­al­istic mor­als of another age.

Here, by way of example, is ‘Journ­al­ism and Mor­al­ity’ by Silas Bent, pub­lished in 1926 in The Atlantic (and quoted in Can You Trust The Media?). Note espe­cially — towards the end — the atti­tude of man­age­ment… Con­tinue read­ing →

Although I’ll be haunt­ing Col­lege Build­ing for the next week or so, today is my leav­ing drinks (or ‘glad you’re gone’ party as we used to call them).

I’ll be keep­ing up a link with the place as a prof, and I’ll be try­ing to bash out a PhD. And I’ll also be giv­ing a mod­est sum for the highest scor­ing MA pro­ject, which will be a prize in memory of Richard Wild. The first £250 will be handed out this autumn, so any City stu­dents read­ing: heads down for the fin­ish­ing line! Con­tinue read­ing →