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Five News
Five news is ten years old, and I was there at the beginning. To anyone who doesn’t know why news anchors now stand up…well, we made it semi-respectable. Most of our innovations were the result of the tiny budget allowed for Britain’s fifth and final terrestrial channel. We had a young, multi-skilled newsroom, before digital…
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The best of British journalism
There is a strangeness about the British press – the newspapers go from ponderous analysis to pure entertainment and they bring the techniques of journalism to bear on all of that content. But, at the British Press Awards, there was some outstanding journalism on display. To invidiously name just three of the winners: Sheila McNulty…
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Pentagon vs Press (MoD vs ITV News?)
ITV News journalists will ask themselves if this sounds familiar… Army Tries to Spin Walter Reed Story, Gets Bitten in the AssAlia Malek The articles on Walter Reed Army Medical Center that ran last week in both the Washington Post and the Army Times revealed a shameful reality awaiting wounded soldiers returning from Iraq. The…
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Reporting Tony Blair: inaccuracy or partiality?
How do you get this: “Tony Blair says his belief in God played a part in deciding to go to war in Iraq. The Prime Minister tells ITV1 he prayed over the difficult decision. Tonight the startling insight into how Mr Blair’s faith influenced Britain’s part in ousting Saddam. So was it holy war?” ITV…