Entries Tagged as ‘journalism’

April 10, 2009

This government’s ‘legacy’ will be the demise of plain English

The Olympic Development Authority has replaced the word ‘future’ with the word ‘legacy’, presumably using the useful ‘edit / replace’ tool on Microsoft Word.

March 18, 2009

The Hackney Post

Introducing Hackney’s local paper for the twenty-first century

January 27, 2009

The BBC is being cowardly, not impartial

The point of impartiality is that it imparts the freedom to say whatever is judged to be true, however unwelcome, however painful, however unpalatable. It is not to make us polite.

January 12, 2009

Cameron’s latest through-the-keyhole antics reveal he has lost the plot

Those worktops are just so obviously just going to wind everyone up, especially the newly cash-strapped middle class, who have had to downgrade from great slabs of granite to MDF covered in sticky back plastic.

January 11, 2009

An apprenticeship in spin

A press release I read today suggests that we journalists aren’t doing our job.

November 27, 2008

In praise of student journalism

spent last night at the Guardian Student Media Awards in Shoreditch. Sadly, our student newspaper Varsity didn’t scoop the ‘Best Newspaper’ award it was nominated for, but it was a fantastic evening, and almost worth going for the free bar and canapés alone.
Introducing the awards, Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger said that with graduate trainee [...]