Roy Greenslade

Profile: Full name: Roy Greenslade Area of interest: The Media, Society and Ethics Journals/Organisation: Evening Standard | The Guardian Email: r.greenslade@city.ac.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/biography/roy-greenslade | http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/roygreenslade Blog: MediaGuardian/Greenslade Blog Representation: Networks: twitter.com/GreensladeR | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/roy-greenslade/18/659/458

Biography: About: Education: Career: Began at the Barking Advertiser; The Sun: assistant editor 1981/86; The Sunday Times: managing editor of news 1987/90; Daily Mirror: Editor 1990/91; The Daily Telegraph: 2005/2006; media commentator since 1992, predominantly at The Guardian Current position/role: Evening Standard columnist, Guardian blogger also writes/has written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Professor of Journalism at City University, London; Trustee of media ethics charity, MediaWise; Board member of the British Journalism Review Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Personal view: New breed of journalist for a new world, The Daily Telegraph, 2006 The Media in the Digital Age, NZ Foreign Correspondents Club in Auckland, December 2006 (video) Technorati: blogs Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: "And as for 'Professor' @GreensladeR in today's Guardian, he admitted faking Spot The Ball for Robert Maxwell so no Mirror reader could win." Morgan defiant as enemies try to implicate him in hacking scandal, Ian Burrell, Media Editor, The Independent, 27th July 2011 Nigel Farndale: Editors have no right to imperil our troops, The Sunday Telegraph, Feb 2006 Stephen Glover: The 'Telegraph' is a curious home for this guardian of media ethics, The Independent, October 2005 Sorry, Arthur, The Guardian, 2002 Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: Married to Noreen Taylor (former Daily Mirror journalist) and stepfather to actress Natascha McElhone

Books & Debate: Goodbye to the working class OCLC2464322 , 1976 Maxwell: the rise and fall of Robert Maxwell and his empire OCLC26160301 , 1992 Latest work: Press gang: how newspapers make profits from propaganda OCLC52696065 , 2003 Speaking/Appearances: Regular talks and lectures Debate:

Evening Standard: Column name: Media Analysis Remit/Info: The Media, Society and Ethics Section: Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: r.greenslade@city.ac.uk Website: Media Commissioning editor: Day published: Wednesday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Single or multiple topics Average length: 800 words

Articles: 2013 Trinity Mirror puts on its Sunday best, but no one’s looking - Desperate times call for desperate measures. That is the only way to interpret Trinity Mirror’s decision to create a unique subsidiary composed of newspaper titles whose only similarity is that they happen to be published on a Sunday - 5th June Woolwich might have been overdone but editors aren’t to blame - The minute I saw the footage of the murderous Woolwich attack on Lee Rigby I knew there would be complaints about the media’s coverage. Let me qualify that final phrase - 29th May Police secrecy is understandable but must be resisted - One of the unintended consequences of the Leveson Inquiry, so it is routinely being claimed, has been the deepening divide between the police and the press - 22nd May Key questions for Bloomberg - By their nature, journalists are inquisitive. It’s their job, after all. But, just like cats, they can be killed for their curiosity, as the News of the World’s phone hackers discovered - 15th May Treading a fine line between privacy and the right to know - The arrest of Jimmy Tarbuck, beloved comedian of generations past, was bound to create big headlines. His whole personality has tended to exemplify the “loveable Liverpudlian.” - 8th May Time to get together and end this press freedom impasse - If ever a bit of old-fashioned British fudge and mudge were needed, it is now - 1st May Don’t blame the internet for false rumours about Boston - it’s the enemy of falsehoods - I arrived in a pub in Brighton two years ago, soon after a neighbouring road had been closed off behind police tape following what had clearly been a major incident - 24th April BBC’s Tony Hall will be judged on how he handles his inherited crises - The BBC’s new Director-General, Tony Hall, as with his short-lived predecessor, George Entwistle, isn’t being allowed a honeymoon. He has become embroiled in two controversies within two weeks of arriving at the Corporation - 17th April Telegraph’s online metered paywall could be a watershed - The Telegraph Media Group’s decision to charge people for access to its newspapers’ website should be seen as a significant turning point, and not only for the publisher itself - 27th March Battle may be lost over press regulation, but the campaigning can carry on - Despite having lost a battle, new rules governing the press will not genuinely inhibit their capability to hold politicians to account - 21st March Mixed signals mask the fact regionals are doing too little too late - We journalists tend to seek out patterns. It’s so neat and tidy when there are clear trends to report on, signs of movement one way or the other — forward or backward, up or down - 13th March Veteran print editors must wake up to new rules - More and more of us are taking the tablets. Everywhere I go, every place I look, there are iPads and Kindle Fires and, just occasionally, Blackberry Playbooks and Nexus 7s - 6th March Whistleblowers need protection or wrongdoing will run riot - Journalists could be on a collision course with the police and the courts — not to mention the Government — if proposed changes are eventually made to the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act (Pace) - 27th February As death toll rises, a new initiative to protect the press - More and more journalists are dying in the course of their work across the world. According to the International Press Institute’s sombre “death watch”, 132 journalists were killed last year. Of those, 90 died while reporting from war zones - 20th February Page 3 demeans women and it should be binned - Last week, I wrote about the hard road travelled by women in trying to attain senior positions in the media, particularly at newspapers. But what, asked some of my female friends, about the sexist content? - 20th February Sexism in the Press - glass ceiling broken, then mended again? - I am sure many young journalists will have greeted Libby Purves’s comments about sexism at the BBC in her younger days with genuine surprise. Could the male bosses at Britain’s public service broadcaster really have acted as she says? - 13th February Scarfe is not an anti-semite but his cartoon was naive - The storm of protest over Gerald Scarfe’s latest Sunday Times cartoon raises two dilemmas. One is specific to the case itself — how do we define anti-semitism? And the other is generic — how do we temper the exercise of press freedom with a sense of responsibility? - 30th January Murdoch’s snub of the independents is a sign of The Times - The Times was described some 70 years ago by Left-wing Labour politician and journalist Tom Driberg as “an almost perfect newspaper”. That praise, shortly after the paper had been heavily criticised for championing appeasement, illustrates the deep affection it had generated among the elite it served - 30th January Why the surprise at transsexual rant by Burchill? - Why do editors hire Julie Burchill to write columns? The obvious answer is that she provokes the audience like no other columnist. She is the iconoclast’s iconoclast. She does controversy without taking breath. It’s in her DNA - 16th January We need to know what’s happening as Leveson rumbles on - A new year but the same old story. I refer, of course, to Leveson. Little information has appeared in public but a great deal is happening behind the scenes as politicians, publishers and editors strive to create a new form of press regulation - 9th January

Articles:2012 For media, a landmark year of controversy and tragedy - This column is a cliché. It’s a look back at what has happened in 2012 and therefore one of newspaper journalism’s most overused traditions — an end-of-year review - 19th December As editors grapple with Leveson, just what is the point? - History appears to be repeating itself, but with significant differences. Back in 1990, with the press facing the threat of statutory controls, editors held a series of meetings in order to create a regulator and a code of ethics - 12th December Toeing the Leveson line will be a long haul for the Press - Newspaper editors met in solemn conclave at breakfast today to try to forge an agreed way of complying with the Prime Minister’s demand they implement the Leveson Report - 5th December Can Last Chance Saloon drown PM’s press sorrows? - David Cameron must have asked himself many times over the past year: “Why did I set up the Leveson inquiry?” He created it to cure himself of a headache, but it has given him a migraine ever since - 28th November Lord McAlpine’s lesson on the dangers of reckless use of Twitter - It is easy to forget that we are in the foothills of the digital revolution, and still at the bottom of a learning curve. That is perfectly illustrated by the current Twitter drama - 21st November The ‘insider outsider’ who would be ideal to rescue Beeb - When incurious George Entwistle played to perfection the part of a rabbit caught in the headlights on the Today programme, I had to pinch myself, a task made more difficult by my also squirming at his performance - 14th November Voters do as they want, despite what the papers say - A myth has grown up that people who enter an election voting booth do just as newspapers tell them in the days beforehand. Politicians are particularly prone to believing this nonsense- 7th November Is Monty being used as a stooge by Trinity Mirror? - Can David Montgomery succeed where other regional newspaper publishers have failed? Has he got the magic touch that will ensure the survival of local papers across Britain?- 31st October Grandstanding aside, MPs should grill BBC on Jimmy Savile - Hindsight is a magical property. It allows its all-seeing exponents to peer into the past and find everyone but themselves wanting - 24th October Savile scandal puts focus on new BBC chief’s credibility - Journalists should beware of being too wise after the event - 17th October Shelving of Newsnight's Jimmy Savile exposé has left BBC with questions to answer - Veteran journalists were not in the least surprised by the Jimmy Savile revelations - 10th October Clegg’s barbs are aimed at national press, not regionals - Nick Clegg has been wrongly accused of performing an unedifying U-turn - 3rd October For radio on oldies’ wavelength, tune in to The Wireless - For as long as I can recall, the media have worshipped the cult of youth - 26th September Self-regulation, not law, is the way to keep press in line - Privacy is dead, said Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, the social media site that seems to lure young people into revealing more than might be judged wise. Princes Harry and William and the Duchess of Cambridge can testify to the truth of that statement - 19th September Hypocrisy on both sides is laid bare in privacy debate - An Irish barrister speaking at a Dublin conference last weekend referred to privacy as “the impossible right”. Max Mosley would certainly know what he meant - 12th September BBC on a loser as it tries to make big deal out of a shuffle - In the run-up to the selection of a new BBC director-general, I complained in this column about the TV news programmes being infected with gimmicks - 5th September It’s a watershed for journalism as eight face charges - In a saga punctuated by landmark incidents, yesterday’s announcement of charges against former News of the World editors and executives marks yet another landmark in this extraordinary tale - 25th July Damage has been done but Games can still sparkle - It had all been going so well. The London Olympic park and village were built ahead of schedule. The stadium looked magnificent. Rehearsals went smoothly - 18th July The future of journalism is bright as hacks go hyperlocal - There is a genuine concern, especially among veteran journalists, that the game is up - 11th July Diamond had to go; the press said so, and quite right too - Bob Diamond resigned as Barclays’ chief executive because he came under pressure from the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority - 4th July My money is still on an insider for the BBC’s top job - As Lord Patten and his BBC Trust colleagues move closer to selecting the next director-general, it is only natural to speculate on the identities of the shortlist - 28th June Our Kate-mania means Diana is now laid to rest - Barely a day passes without the Duchess of Cambridge gracing the pages of newspapers - 20th June For a top politician, Leveson Inquiry is a walk in the park - despite a rare moment or two when it looked as though there might just be a hint that they would trip up, most of the political elite strolled through their appearances at Leveson Inquiry - 20th June Once every 60 years there’s only one item of news - Is it not one of the great wonders of the world that when certain major events occur there is no other news about? - 6th June How can we agree on what is in the public interest? - The decision not to prosecute the Guardian’s reporter, Amelia Hill, for (allegedly) receiving information from a police officer about the phone-hacking scandal is wise and welcome - 31st May My soft spot has hardened as Hunt’s shown his colours - I admit, oddly, to having initially had a soft spot for Jeremy Hunt - 24th May Can someone tell me why Brits don’t like Sundays? - In one of the many wonderful one-liners delivered by Maggie Smith as the haughty dowager countess in Downton Abbey, she asks with slightly disingenuous bafflement: “What is a weekend?” - 16th May Magazines learn to embrace apps as a lure for readers - The shelves of magazines at supermarkets and newsagents look little different nowadays from, say, a decade ago - 9th May Murdoch has been humiliated but much worse is yet to come - the real crisis for Murdoch, on either side of the Atlantic, is altogether more troubling - 2nd May The public interest sometimes needs a mucky approach - Public interest, phone hacking and the Murdochs - 11th April It’s crystal clear that Murdochs en masse look murky - Like father, like son. Yesterday, James Murdoch suffered the most humbling day of his life - 4th April I’m a fan of quality and that’s why I worship Mad Men - why Mad Men is a more-than-worthy successor to The Sopranos and The Wire - 28th March Contenders in the battle to win top job at the Beeb - The BBC king is dead, long live the BBC queen. Mark Thompson’s much-trailed resignation as the corporation’s director-general opens the way for his successor to be a woman - 21st March A show that proves the BBC is sacrificing its voice for its ratings - It’s Saturday evening and, just as you thought it might be safe to switch on BBC 1, along comes another musical talent show - 14th March Sly Bailey must look in the Mirror over Sunday failure - She had the playing field to herself when the News of the World vanished - 7th March Cloud over rivals when Sun comes out on Sunday? - Rupert Murdoch has made a career of springing surprises, and just ahead of his 81st birthday he managed to do it yet again - 29th February No wonder the police have to be tough on the Sun - If we journalists are not to turn ourselves into a laughing stock by special pleading, we need to get a sense of proportion about the arrests of senior staff working for the Sun - 22nd February Sorry, but a press card system won't come up trumps - All of us who care about journalism have been doing a great deal of head-scratching over the past six months or so - 15th February Arrests leave Sun journalists feeling cast off by Rupert - Wapping journalists are in a state of shock. Many now believe that their ultimate boss, Rupert Murdoch, no longer cares for them - 8th February Patten is good for the BBC but there is still much to do - I thought Lord Patten's appointment as chairman of the BBC Trust nine months ago was inspired because I knew he would have the necessary diplomatic skills to deal with the problems he undoubtedly inherited - 1st February Commercial success is to be desired but let's keep inventiveness as our aim - The very phrase "the British film industry" is imbued with nostalgia. It reminds us of monochrome comedies, smoky cinemas and uniformed ushers selling ice creams in the aisles while reels were changed - 25th January Ending already given away to a flawed inquiry? - The flaws in the Leveson inquiry have become more evident over the past couple of days - 12th January Unexpected result of Leveson has been to expose sexism - The Leveson inquiry has opened the door to a far broader reconsideration of what is published in our newspapers than its original remit implied - 4th January

Articles: 2011 Don't blame us for the crash - we just reported the news - A study has shown that the British public is both confused and worried by the financial crisis. No surprise there, of course. What is significant is that so many of them think journalists have failed them - 21st December Editors must curb excesses of stalkerazzi - I once observed a group of photographers standing on ladders so they could look over the wall at Chelsea's Harbour Club and train their lenses on Princess Diana. They were shouting abuse at her in order to provoke some kind of reaction - 14th December Hugh Grant is not totally wrong about faults of press - When Hugh Grant took up the cudgels on behalf of people whose phones were hacked by the News of the World, I thought "good for him" - 30th November Can we save the UK's regional papers? - Human beings cling to the past, ensuring that the nostalgia industry never declines. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the regional newspaper industry as it copes with a range of problems that make it inconceivable it could ever turn back the clock - 30th November How big a role do the media really have in drugs debate? - At every general election there is a debate about the influence of newspapers. Despite tumbling circ-ulations in recent years, the general view is that readers still respond to the opinions of editors and publishers on how they should vote - 15th November Do we really need Leveson's inquiry now? - There is a spectre hanging over Fleet Street, and it is the Leveson inquiry - 9th November Why I believe it's all over for James Murdoch - Rupert Murdoch's son James is a busted flush. The votes against him at the News Corporation annual meeting signal that the chances of him heading his father's company have virtually disappeared - 2nd November News Corp showdown: Rupert stays but James's hopes fade - Rupert Murdoch has seen many of his newspapers launch feeding frenzies against individuals over the years - 26th October Dangers mount for future of investigative journalism - There has never been a period in my life when the general interest in journalism has been so intense - 19th October Foxy Knoxy', murder and double standards - A young man who was four years into a 25-year jail sentence on a murder conviction walked free from an Italian prison on Monday after the verdict was reversed - 5th October What can be done about a problem called Richard? - What is worse than giving money to charity? Quite obviously, giving nothing at all. With that in mind, I can't quite see why people are kicking Richard Desmond for seeking to raise £50 million for health causes - 28th September Met's bid to expose paper's source was bound to fail - The u-turn by the Metropolitan police over its absurd attempt to order the Guardian to reveal its confidential sources for some of its phone-hacking revelations is, of course, welcome - 20th September Still so vital to get whole truth about phone hacking - Complexity should not blind us to the significance of the drip-drip-drip of revelations that are helping us to get a clearer picture of what happened at the News of the World - 14th September Don't axe PCC - press must put its own house in order - In the wake of the phone hacking scandal, it has become open season on the Press Complaints Commission. It is now fashionable to heap ordure over the PCC without much thought - 27th July He had become a doting old gent caught like a rabbit in the headlights - The world's leading press tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, appeared in public to face pressure over phone hacking. It was a truly historic moment - 20th July Rupert Murdoch should have sacked Rebekah Brooks when this started - Brooks succumbed finally to the pressure. She has gone - and not before time - 20th July Dangers mount for Murdoch as he faces Citizen Kane moment - In 1969, I joined The Sun on the first day of its publication under the ownership of Rupert Murdoch. In one way or another, as employee, rival editor and media commentator, I have found him part of my life ever since - 13th July Why I think Brooks must resign as chief executive of News International - There cannot be any doubt now that a public inquiry into phone-hacking by the News of the World is essential. Unless Wapping's Augean stables are cleaned, and seen to be cleaned, the credibility of the entire British press will be stained forever - 13th July Sunday Times to disclose its Huhne tape source to police - As I began to write this column I was all ready to mount the barricades in defence of the Sunday Times, which lost a legal action last week when police demanded that it hand over a sensitive tape recording - 29th June Loss-making Guardian risks all on 'digital-first' - The announcement by Guardian Media Group that it is to adopt a digital-first strategy has engendered a mixture of concern, incredulity, hostility and cynicism while fostering a widespread belief that the game is up for the Guardian and its Sunday stablemate, the Observer - 29th June As newspaper shares slide, City expects drastic change - This morning, 38 members of the National Union of Journalists in Sutton and Twickenham began their protest outside their papers because of a decision to close the sports and leisure department at the cost of nine jobs - 22nd June My fear is web giants will know too much about us - We all know people who have their heads in the clouds - 15th June Editors protest too much about threat of privacy law - It seems as though no news story is breaking at present without newspapers transforming it into an opportunity to raise the alarm about the perils of privacy - 25th May Would any paper dare to break a super-injunction? - Privacy is all the rage, with twists and turns every day - 18th May No!' - AV verdict is clear as media fail to get excited - The AlternativeVote referendum is both fascinating and futile at one and the same time - 11th May Charles and Di cast shadow over Wills and Kate coverage - The Daily Mirror have published a 12-page souvenir pullout reproducing articles and pictures from its issue of July 30, 1981 - the day after the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Di - 4th May Judges and the media need a sense of balance - Journalists don't like gagging orders. So it was natural enough that they should feel less than delighted when one of their colleagues dared to obtain one to prevent coverage of a dalliance - 27th April Rupert Murdoch's calculated bet he can end hacking saga - Has Rupert Murdoch finally come up with a successful way to bring the News of the World phone-hacking scandal to an end? - 20th April Turkey's press freedom attack is a disgrace - Those journalists working in the liberal democracies of the West generally enjoy the luxury of going about their business without the threat of prosecution or prison - 13th April Sian murder says a lot about media's values - From the dawn of newspapers, murder has been a major component of the new (also: Newspapers operate a 'hierarchy of death') - 30th March 'Ink doesn't run in his veins' - why Richard Desmond just might sell - Richard Desmond to sell off his magazines. Even in an industry where the extraordinary is accepted as the ordinary, that was some headline - 23rd March 'Preach the reach' - it's the only way - In other words, given the range of platforms that we now use to deliver news, I argued that it was necessary to show how audiences, though diminishing for printed publications, were increasing in the digital arena - 16th March Wills and Kate must beware end of media honeymoon - This morning's national newspapers carried pictures of a smiling Prince William and Kate Middleton on a walkabout in Belfast. These are just the kind of images that the Queen and her aides will be delighted to see in print, especially after two weeks during which her second son, Andrew, has been trashed daily - 9th March TV sets agenda in coverage of Arab uprisings - The Libyan uprising has been a triumph for both 24-hour news channels and for terrestrial TV's normal news programming - 2nd March Future of Sky News holds key to Murdoch's bid for BSkyB - As negotiations continue between News Corporation and the Office of Fair Trading over the former's bid to acquire the whole of BSkyB, there appear to be two assumptions among commentators - 23rd February This mad move spells disaster for BBC - Moving out of London, says the BBC's director-general, Mark Thompson, makes creative and economic sense - 16th February Content is king in Huffington deal with AOL - The reaction to the acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL has run from sceptical to enthusiastic - 9th February So will press watchdog show bite at last over phone hacking? - Ten years ago this week, the PCC celebrated its 10th anniversary with a glittering party that attracted a couple of royal guests - along with a measure of criticism for being too self-congratulatory - 2nd February A not-so-happy 80th birthday for Rupert Murdoch? - It is becoming more and more obvious that, even if the wheels are not coming off News Corp, the tyres are going bald, the brakes need attention and the company is - 26th January Naomi Campbell's lawyers can't get libel success fee in key EU ruling - The Naomi Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers case is bound to have far-reaching implications for every British publisher of newspapers and books - 19th January Max Mosley’s revenge could put a shackle on the press - I have nothing but sympathy for Max Mosley for the intrusion into his private life, but he must not be allowed to change the law - 12th January Joanna Yeates case demonstrates ‘casual cruelty’ of journalism - Media analysis: Journalists appalled at treatment in the press of the man arrested over landscape architect's death - 5th January

Articles: 2010 Local TV is doomed to fail but we might as well try it… - At at least one government minister believes Britons want local TV, even if they are blissfully unaware of the fact - 22nd December The days of the foreign correspondent have quietly passed - The old model of a foreign correspondent working from a fixed overseas bureau is no longer relevant in today's world - 8th December WikiLeaks empowers us all… whatever the critics say - There is a public service ethos at the heart of both the latest set of WikiLeaks revelations and the investigations carried out by The Sunday Times and BBC’s Panorama into the activities of Fifa - 1st December Time is short for papers to adapt to world of mixed media - For the moment, and probably for some time to come, we should enjoy this unprecedented period of living within a mixed media environment - 24th November Press rejoice at prospect of royal wedding - The royal wedding circus rolls back into town like it's 1981 all over again - 17th November Domestic woe for the BBC's Earl of White City - Just when you think Mark Thompson has nothing more to worry about at the BBC, along comes ITV with a triumphant smash-hit series - 10th November Alexander Lebedev's treatment shows the perils of a press baron in Russia - The nature of Alexander Lebedev's treatment in Russia is alarming for press freedom - 3rd November Investigative journalism is still thriving in the internet era - Media analysis: I should have accepted a fiver for every time I have been told that investigative journalism is either a dead or dying art in Britain - 3rd November Newspapers need to learn wider lessons of business - Media analysis: Did someone ask why publishers like outsourcing? The reason is obvious: it is cheaper and it works - 27th October Andrew Marr is wrong — bloggers are good news - Media Analysis: Andrew Marr’s attack reads as if it was made seven or eight years ago, when there were plenty of internet nay-sayers around - 20th October Child benefit row shows Tories can't count on press - Media: The Chancellor's announcement of a cut in child benefit for higher-rate taxpayers put the relationship between the Tories and their middle-class constituency in jeopardy - 6th October No, minister - your plan to boost local media is a non-starter - For his own sake, I hope that Jeremy Hunt doesn't view his ultra-local television proposal as The Big Idea of his tenure as Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport - 29th September Let Rupert Murdoch buy Sky - this is not a Berlusconi moment - At various times in the past 40 years I have grown used to hearing the same question: what do we do about Rupert Murdoch? - 22nd September Now Rupert Murdoch feels heat over phone-hacking - The News of the World phone-hacking scandal refuses to fade away - 22nd September News of the World phone-hacking and why we may never learn real truth - The News of the World is at the centre of almost every controversial story around just now - 8th September Can Richard Desmond repeat his OK! success with Channel Five? - Media Analysis: So it would appear that Richard Desmond is in with a great chance of acquiring the TV channel known as Five - 28th July Critics savage Peter Mandelson's book as damp squib and duplicitous - Media Analysis: Say what you like about Peter Mandelson, and everybody does, he knows how to attract headlines - 21st July Review of press complaints system should be just the start - The PCC, like the press itself, will never engender love, but if it takes on board recommendations, there will be more openness - 14th July Who will take a punt on the future of Five? - Five, the TV channel that has struggled for years to attract an audience, is up for sale. But who really cares? - 30th June Will these libel reforms help press freedom - Media Analysis: To appease critics and give it a greater chance of garnering political and judicial support Lord Lester's Bill is too pragmatic - 24th June Al-Jazeera is under scrutiny as female TV presenters quit - Al-Jazeera has, since its 1996 launch as an Arab-based international TV news network, been the subject of controversy. Much of the criticism has been the result of prejudice - 16th June Two cheers for Jeremy Hunt’s plan for ultra-local TV services - Media Analysis: Culture Secretary is clearly a romantic, but doesn't the future really lie online? - 16th June Is iPad really digital saviour of newspapers? Don't bet on it - Publishers are fooling themselves if they think the iPad circumvents the problem of persuading people to pay for something they have grown used to - 9th June ‘Caught on camera’ — why it’s right to use entrapment - Media Analysis: There has been a sudden spate of stories in which journalists have employed subterfuge and covert video-taping - 26th May Just what is privacy in the era of Google and Facebook? - Media Analysis: The problem of maintaining one’s privacy has widened to include the overwhelming majority of the population - 19th May Tory press will not make life easy for Nick Clegg - Media Analysis: Nick Clegg has discovered within a month what life is going to be like on the press roller-coaster - 12th May Why it won’t be the newspapers wot won the election - Media Analysis: History shows there are limits to the press’s influence in elections - 5th May Good, bad and ugly — how local papers are reporting the election - Media Analysis: A trawl around local papers in central London suggests their journalists are rarely reporting live from the election hustings - 28th April Nick Clegg-mania is more than just media hype - A couple of weeks ago, the presenter of Have I Got News For You, Alexander Armstrong, won a lot of laughs with a running gag about the anonymity of the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg by referring to him as “the other one” - 28th April Don't believe all the e-hype. This isn't an internet election - Media Analysis: This election is being fought very much like every one in the last 30 years or so, through traditional mainstream media - 14th April Columnists offer little poll cheer to Tories or Labour - Media Analysis: The BBC’s director-general, Mark Thompson, was quick to affirm the corporation’s political neutrality - 7th April Yes, Rupert Murdoch is taking a risk but don’t write off his paywall - Media analysis: Rupert Murdoch came in for a battering after the official announcement that The Times and Sunday Times will be charging for access - 31st March MPs cannot blame the media for exposing bad behaviour - Media Analysis: I knew what was coming when I switched on to watch Channel 4’s Dispatches on Monday evening - 24th March Why the Murdoch family hates to love Fox News - Media: Fox News brings Rupert Murdoch vast profits and huge reach in the US, but has the channel become a monster out of his control? - 13th January Advertising pins hope on World Cup for recovery - A new year always offers the possibility of new hope. Surely, after the worst 12 months for the media in modern history, things can only get better in 2010. The recession will recede. Confidence will return. Advertising will pick up - 6th January

Articles: 2009 2009 was bad but worst may now be over for media industry - 23rd December Tiger Woods cannot plead privacy now to escape media storm - 16th December At last we will soon learn if charging for journalism on web can work - At the World Congress of Newspapers in Hyderabad, India, it has been impossible to escape the sense of change - 2nd December Why I fear for the future of news on ITV - There was a time, so long ago that the memory only comes back to me now in dreams, when Granada TV's regional news programmes were vital viewing - 25th November Tory ‘big bang’ plan to shake up media is good sense - Is it possible to save traditional media companies in the face of the twin threats of a digital revolution and the recession? - 18th November No time to wait — we must have radical reform of libel law now - It is time for journalists to rebuild a relationship with politicians. This sounds crazy after the expenses debacle and in view of the daily drip-drip... - 11th November Glossy mags are still in vogue despite tough times - Media analysis: Newspaper sales are going down. Television audiences are fragmenting. But there is one branch of media that has good reason to be... - 4th November Getting balance right between free speech and censorship - It is recognised, except by the most fundamentalist of libertarians, that the exercise of free speech carries with it certain responsibilities - 28th October Getting balance right between free speech and censorship - Everyone believes in free speech. At least, everyone in advanced western societies is given to saying that they believe in free speech, almost as if it's an act of faith - 21st October Rise of ‘super injunction’ is serious threat to free speech - It is wrong that gagging orders are so secretive that media cannot even report on their existence - 14th October Murdoch has lost his magic touch at News Corp - Plan to charge for online news is raising doubts about his leadership - 7th October Marr should apologise for grilling Brown about health - I admire Andrew Marr’s work as a broadcaster and writer - 30th September Imminent deal could be a major fillip after years of under-reporting of local law courts and councils - Charitable funding for local news will soon be reality - 23rd September Ending TV ban on product placement is sensible move - Media analysis: What a great wheeze it must have seemed to the Government to solve the problems of commercial TV companies and advertisers - 23rd September O’Reilly family deserves credit for supporting Independent - To write about the problems now besetting the company that owns The Independent is rather like intruding on personal grief - 16th September Why Murdochs are wrong to blame BBC for media’s woes - the central point of Murdoch's MacTaggart lecture was, of course, to complain that the BBC should no longer be properly described as a broadcaster - 2nd September Eady’s errors and why this judge must not hear so many libel actions - Our commentator argues that, after his own experience in court, Sir David Eady is a threat to press freedom - 29th July Political spin is having to change in internet age - The disgraced former Downing Street spin doctor, Damian McBride, broke his silence on Monday by giving interviews in print and on radio in an obvious attempt to rescue his reputation - 22nd July Tough calls to make over phone-tapping - The News of the World phone-hacking scandal took another giant stride forward yesterday with the evidence presented to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee - 15th July The battle over Ofcom's future as the media regulator - It is difficult to be sure of the springboard for David Cameron's sudden assault on Ofcom - 8th July Dangers are mounting for BBC that won't listen to critics - Does the BBC have a death wish? - 1st July Digital Britain: What we have got here is a failure to communicate - Lord Carter's report maps out a future direction for the media industry - but he has left too many issues unresolved in the wilderness - 24th June Digital Britain: What we have got here is a failure to communicate - Lord Carter's report maps out a future direction for the media industry - but he has left too many issues unresolved in the wilderness - 17th June Fighting for an editor facing five years' jail for protecting her sources - Tomorrow a judge will be asked to decide whether the police are right to demand that a journalist hand over her notes, phones and computers - 10th June No-win, no-fee libel law is a real danger to press freedom - There may well be a view in certain quarters that journalists who complain about the libel law are little different from sailors who complain about the sea - 3rd June MPs' scandal and dilemma for lobby journalists - Every night for the past three weeks, all those parliamentary journalists who are not fortunate enough to work for the Daily Telegraph have been involved in an embarrassing routine. They wait on tenterhooks until 10pm to read the latest instalment of the Telegraph's revelations on MPs' expenses - 27th May BBC is ready for a fight to defend licence fee - It would be a great surprise if the Conservative Party was to succeed today in preventing the BBC from securing a £3 increase to the licence fee - 20th May MPs' expenses and the virtue of chequebook journalism - The sorry saga of MPs' expenses is a remarkable media story. It began with a dogged investigation by a lone campaigner. It eventually turned into a cause célèbre as almost every national newspaper editor took up the case - 13th May Media must face up to charging for content on the web - Giving away news for free used to be the mantra of the digital age. But that looks a lot less viable in recession - 6th May At last media chiefs agree they must act to save local journalism from crisis - 29th April Council papers are bad for local journalism - and democracy - There is not the slightest doubt that many local newspapers are facing a fight for survival - though, more properly, it is their owners that are in real trouble - 22nd April Health warning: rumours in cyberspace may seriously damage your credibility - one of the major problems in running stories about smear campaigns is obvious. Publishing the content of a smear, even in attenuated form, may help do the rumour-monger's job for him. So to repeat more than the gist of any allegation is potentially very damaging, as the Sunday Times and the News of the World have discovered to their acute embarrassment - 15th April Media critics are protesting too much about power of Google - 8th April Answer to economic crisis in newspapers is not more consolidation - 1st April What will we lose if regional newspapers are killed off? - The news about newspapers gets more depressing by the day. Regional and local papers are suffering unprecedented declines in revenue - 25th March Even trade magazines are feeling the squeeze in the recession - Business-to-business magazines - initially immune from the economic downturn - are now finding the going tough - 18th March Mosley was right to sue - but now I fear MPs are closer to backing a privacy law - 11th March US papers are in crisis but this does not mean death of journalism - For the past 86 years the editors of American newspapers have gathered in annual conclave to discuss their problems. Now, as they face the greatest crisis they have ever experienced, the editors have cancelled their convention for the first time since the Second World War - 4th March Murdoch faces Titanic hole at News Corp as top man Chernin goes - Regardless of their skills or their loyalty, those who get closest to Murdoch eventually get burned by the man who was memorably nicknamed the Sun King by Andrew Neil - 25th February (See: Peter Chernin and the Empire of the rising son) Why the ex-boss of MI5 is now standing up for press freedom - The Government was threatening human rights, she said, by exploiting fear of terrorism to introduce laws interfering with people's privacy. She referred explicitly to a belief that Britain is becoming "a police state" - 18th February Critics may carp but the media did good job of exposing crunch - We are reliably informed at regular intervals that the media, and newspapers in particular, are not trusted by the public - 11th February Public subsidy and charitable endowments are on agenda as papers face toughest battle - the gradual decline of newspapers has reached crisis proportions, exacerbated by the rise in internet popularity and intensified by the current economic downturn, a new debate is under way about how to save them - 4th February Less kiss’n’tell at News of the World as editor cleans up red-top - 28th January Ofcom risks making a pig’s ear of C4 if we lose gourmet selection of quality TV - There is so much to appreciate about C4, not least its contribution to film, arts, drama and documentaries. There is a Channel 4 ethos, a distinctiveness, that sets it apart from both its commercial rivals and the publicly-funded BBC - 21st January Even top dogs at FT feel chill of the media downturn - the FT's management knew well enough from its own reporting of the knock-on effects of the credit crisis that it could not avoid the need to cut costs - 14th January Innovation must be focus for advertising agencies facing deep recession - In the print and broadcasting media, we know well enough about the effects of the advertising downturn - 7th January

Articles: 2008 No easy choices for Channel 4 as decision on future looms - what will the Government do about Channel 4? As the moment of decision moves ever closer, speculation is rife about how to preserve Britain's only genuine public service broadcasting alternative to the BBC - 17th December 2008 Tribune's collapse rings alarm bells for newspaper industry - I have a hunch that early next year at least one large British newspaper company will have to take the same drastic action as the Tribune Company. But which will be the first to go into administration? - 10th December 2008 Media must keep up fight for right to use leaked information - 3rd December 2008 My way to save Indy - kill off print edition and focus on going digital - 26th November 2008 Forget boozy Fleet St image - newspapers turned lean long ago - Media analysis: Journalists on national newspapers have become so used to job cuts that it has blinded them to reality - 19th November 2008 Judges and MPs must heed media's fears about privacy law 'by back door' - 12th November 2008 Political magazines sell well - with a little help from Obama - 5th November 2008 This sea of troubles is one that Mandy whipped up for himself - 29th October 2008 Trouble for Yahoo as chill of recession hits net advertising - 22nd October 2008 BBC's Peston deserves credit, not blame, for his reporting of crunch - 15th October 2008 WSJ’s worthy reporting of financial meltdown lacks punch or panache - 8th October 2008 Forget cuddly image – this viewers’ lobby group is a force to reckon with - Like many a professional journalist, I am predisposed to scepticism about lobby groups - 1st October 2008 Redesign at The Indy can't hide financial worries - To quote from its understandably immodest blurb, The Independent opened a bright new chapter in its history yesterday with a full-colour revamp that was, well, colourful - 24th September 2008 Views matter as much as news for business audience in digital age - 17th September 2008 The angry Caesars of commercial TV taking on BBC Worldwide - Perhaps the first and best-known resolution of a conflict of interest appears in the bible, in Matthew's gospel - 10th September 2008 Regional papers face bigger woes than just an economic downturn - There can be few more difficult and unpalatable jobs than managing decline in a mature market. Yet that's what regional newspaper owners have been doing for at least a quarter of a century - 3rd September 2008 Folly of the newspaper editor who dared to turn his back on the future - 13th August 2008 Watershed moment for Dave as the papers turn against Gordon - 6th August 2008 Reality check for the BBC - it can't be the only public service source of news - 30th July 2008 Comment: Judge seems to like press freedom less than people who buy newspapers - 24th July 2008 Despite shares gloom in media sector, it is not all bad news - 23rd July 2008 Deal or no deal? How a foreign owner could soon end up buying ITV - 16th July 2008 As newspaper share prices plunge, don't rule out a trophy bidder - 9th July 2008 Destined for the spike - sub-editors will struggle to survive in digital age - 2nd July 2008 Big Brother TV boss Duncan faces up to funding crisis at C4 - 25th June 2008 Journalists in Britain, whatever the public might think, do not have carte blanche to do as they like - 18th June 2008 Beeb's forced march online threatens to silence too many voices - 11th June 2008 The Times a-changing for worse with dismal redesign - 4th June 2008 Audience figures for newspaper websites are hard to trust - 28th May 2008 As Yahoo can't decide on merger partner, Google looms ever larger - Google is a media behemoth on a scale no mogul, not even Rupert Murdoch, can hope to match - 21st May 2008 Sun's battle to lift sales can't hide problem for all red-tops - The Sun is Britain's most loved newspaper brand and also its most hated newspaper brand - 14th May 2008 Alarm bells should be ringing about the future of TV news - 7th May 2008 Rupert's renewed love affair with print faces a test - 30th April 2008 ITV has still got talent so that's why buyers are still sniffing around - 23rd April 2008 Journalists must admit corporate PR has a role in media landscape - 16th April 2008 Stakes are high in boardroom as Tesco sues Guardian for libel - 9th April 2008 A sly look in Mirror suggests future is not so bleak - 2nd April 2008 Diversity or die - that is the harsh reality for media firms - 26th March 2008 Despite shares gloom in media section, it's not all bad news - 19th March 2008 Focusing on global influentials puts FT in the pink again - 5th March 2008 Virgin and Sky square up to Hutton as great fight for ITV goes to appeal - 27th February 2008 Why gloss has come off magazine business - 20th February 2008 Dreams for digital radio turn sour after GCap axes stations - 13th February 2008 Why Microsoft's grab for Yahoo raises fears in the online jungle - 6th February 2008 Everyone loses after Hutton orders BSkyB to sell ITV stake - 30th January 2008 How BBC could stop this power trio from slicing up licence fee - 23rd January 2008 The news is that ITV's share price isn't making the grade - 16th January 2008 Britain is not doomed to repeat woes of US newspaper industry - 9th January 2008

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Articles: 2013 The Sun says … vote Ukip in 2015? - The Sun is urging readers not to see Ukip as a marginal party. And like Nigel Farage, Murdoch wants Britain out of the EU - 22nd March Kate 'baby bump' photos: the press was not always so coy - When a pregnant Princess Diana was photographed, tabloid papers were happy to publish. Her son won't let it happen again - 14th February Belfast's rioting loyalists feel abandoned by their politicians - The union flag protest should spur Northern Ireland's unionist leaders to re-engage with an alienated Protestant working class - 8th January

Articles: 2012 Keep your tin hat handy, Lord Leveson, there's a hail of criticism coming - Greatest fears of newspaper editors comes to pass as Leveson recommends self-regulation with a statutory backstop - 30th November Prince Harry pictures: the Sun's ethics are set by the internet - Publishing naked pictures of the prince is risky given Leveson's scrutiny, but the paper's defence will be the web did it first - 24th August The BBC buys lots of copies of the Guardian. What does that really say? - No wonder the Guardian is the most bought newspaper at the BBC. Both are imbued with a public interest ethos - 14th August Rebekah Brooks charges take the phone-hacking scandal to a new level - This is a watershed in the phone-hacking scandal: it's hardly surprising the former Murdoch favourite reacted so angrily - 16th May Andy Coulson plays a blinder at Leveson - The former spin doctor's performance was a masterly display of stonewalling with the sour grapes judiciously removed - 11th May

Articles: 2011 Another twist, thanks to Gordon Brown - With revelations that Gordon Brown's children were targeted, the News International scandal is spiralling out of Murdoch's control - 12th July News of the World's last breath: put the handkerchiefs aside - Sunday tabloid's final edition tries to disguise any villainy in sentimental farewell - 11th July Hacks pay the price of hacking, but the News of the World had lost its way - The Sunday tabloid's staff became the final victims of a catalogue of misdeeds that bosses failed to tackle - 8th July News of the World closure: Murdoch's breathtaking gesture - Closing the News of the World is a proportionate response, but it should not draw a line under the whole scandal - 8th July The impact of Hugh Grant's 'bugging of the bugger' shows our celeb obsession - Grant's recording of an ex-News of the World journalist revealed nothing new about phone hacking but received global coverage - 15th April Daily Express's new editor plays the same one-note tune - It's easy to scoff at the Express and its declining circulation, but its anti-immigration campaign is too dangerous to ignore - 23rd February

Articles: 2009 The sad band of writers who want to give war another chance - Reactionary commentators have used the killings in Northern Ireland to start a propaganda war against Irish republicanism - 14th March Indy still keeping Glover column under wraps - Another day passes and the Stephen Glover column in The Independent that upset Telegraph Media Group bosses, What's happening to The Daily Telegraph is a national tragedy, is still not available on the Indy website - Guardian.co, Greenslade Blog, 13th January 2009 Why is Glover's Telegraph-is-a-national-tragedy column missing from Independent website? - Why has Stephen Glover's December 22 column - the one headlined What's happening to The Daily Telegraph is a national tragedy - been taken down from The Independent website? - Guardian.co, Greenslade Blog, 12th January 2009 Online is the future and the future is now - With bosses focused on commerce and ratings, papers are falling behind where it really matters, says Roy Greenslade - creating online material and innovations people are prepared to pay for - 5th January

Articles: 2008 That's Asda price - The retailer might have backed down from its demand for editorial space in return for shelf space, but the episode highlights publishers' fears about the power of the supermarkets - 4th August 2008 You couldn't make it up - David Davis wants to run on principle, but with Kelvin MacKenzie as rival it's bound to be a circus - 14th June 2008 Why Martin Kelly has three obituaries - 25th May 2008 The Prod squad - The latest royal wedding has brought up questions from the sartorial to the photographic, but the key issue is the bride's renunciation of faith - 20th May 2008 Is Coleen McLoughlin a journalist? - 24th April 2008 Utter oath - Lord Goldsmith's notion of children pledging allegiance to the Crown would be a grotesque step back into Britain's pre-democratic past - 11th March 2008 Black days for the 'Gray Lady' - The family-owned New York Times is facing challenges to its independence - 10th March 2008 West side story - How did the LA Times lose three editors in three years? - 28th January 2008 The digital challenge - The future of newspapers is online - but how are they responding to the demands of different platforms and round-the-clock reporting? - 7th January 2008 Fighting talk - Tony Blair and Rupert Murdoch's conversations in the run-up to the Iraq invasion must be significant, but what did they discuss? - 19th July 2007 A fallen mogul - It is not to excuse his crimes to say that Conrad Black should be seen as flawed, rather than all bad - 13th July 2007 A voice from the other side - Extracts of Robert Maxwell's telephone calls, revealed by the BBC today, are a chilling reminder of the man I sparred with at the Daily Mirror - 25th April 2008

News & updates: Hillsborough report: let's accept the sincerity of the Sun's abject apology - Roy Greenslade on what the papers say about the Hillsborough independent panel's report - 13th September 2012

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