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When the Chartered Institute of Journalists awarded Sir Harold Evans its Gold Medal it was recognising how five iconic books he had written had helped elevate the status of journalism from the rather shady trade of Grub Street to an admirable profession. Newsman’s English, Handling Newspaper Text, News Headlines, Pictures on a Page and Newspaper…
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George Orwell has become a touchstone for most contemporary journalists writing features connected with anything that could be described as Orwellian. A Google search of the adjective yields 2,540,000 results. The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia explains the word ‘describes a situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of…
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UK journalism law’s ‘bible’ reaches its 25th edition in an age of less media freedom than its first.
This remarkable journalism law text book first appeared in 1954 and was written by the late Leonard McNae, who was editor of the Press Association’s Special Reporting Service. The 25th edition has been co-written by the Press Association’s retiring legal editor Mike Dodd and Mark Hanna who this year has also retired from his position…
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Submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications and Digital September 2020. The Chartered Institute of Journalists believes conflict of interests and the problem of compromising independence and constitutional distance from executive and legislature mean that it would be best to avoid direct government and state subsidy. The Institute recommends large-scale and imaginative…
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