An old man remembers Fleet Street

I fin­ished col­lege at twenty-two. I was going to do six months train­ing on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of com­pet­it­ive journ­al­ism. I sat in on the Daily Express, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn. Con­tinue read­ing

Arguing against Nick Davies

Flat Earth News by Nick DaviesBritish writer Nick Dav­ies is an inspir­a­tion to a lot of young journ­al­ists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writ­ing on social issues here). But now he has moved from cov­er­ing drugs and crim­inal justice to report on journ­al­ism. And in doing so, he com­mis­sioned some research to back up his cri­ti­cisms and ana­lysis. Con­tinue read­ing