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Sea change: did online campaign group force political transparency?
It’s an interesting landmark: a quickly put-together online campaign in the UK may have influenced a political reversal. Gordon Brown has cancelled proposals for MPs to protect the details of their...
View ArticleYourRightToKnow: Heather Brooke responds to MP Alan Keen’s questions
Heather Brooke, journalist and Freedom of Information specialist, has picked up on the Hansard report from the committee session in April 2009 which heard evidence from Roy Greenslade and Nick Davies....
View ArticleLast night’s Question Time: should Will Lewis get a knighthood?
Last night’s BBC Question Time got a lot of people talking, not least in regards to the heckling of MP Margaret Beckett. The Twitter comments were interesting to follow too, some of which Paul Canning...
View ArticleHacks beat Flacks to knockout in Pall Mall debate
Normally it is very sedate – the Pall Mall world of the Gentlemans’ Clubs. On Monday night it was a bare knuckle fight to the finish as the hacks took on the flacks in a Media Society/CIPR debate at...
View ArticleWhy Jeremy Paxman is the new Charles Wheeler
Tonight he steps up to get the first ever Charles Wheeler Award at Westminster University from his boss Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general. Paxo is now the worthy wearer of Wheeler’s Crown. Well...
View ArticleCarter Ruck release: Mail on Sunday apologises to MP over Dale story
Tom Watson MP has published a release from law firm Carter Ruck in full on his blog, after false allegations were made against the politician in a Mail on Sunday article by political blogger Iain Dale....
View ArticleMP Nadine Dorries on the ‘wealth and muscle’ of the Barclay Brothers
“Nadine Dorries, the Conservative frontbencher who claimed the Daily Telegraph’s revelations on expenses could drive MPs to suicide, has had her blog shut down by lawyers acting for the newspaper,”...
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Alan Rusbridger invites MP Tom Watson to morning conference
We’re still experimenting with neater ways to present Twitter conversations – without having to do time-consuming cut-and-pastes – but a Tweader conversation at this link shows recent tweets between...
View ArticleGuardian.co.uk: Crowd-sourced experiment –‘Investigate your MP’s expenses’
The Guardian has launched a new crowd-sourced experiment: ‘Investigate your MP’s expenses’. More to follow from Journalism.co.uk soon. Extracts from the Guardian press release: “The Guardian has today...
View ArticleLet the expenses data war commence: Telegraph begins its document drip feed
Andy Dickinson from the Department of Journalism at UCLAN sums up today’s announcement in this tweet: ‘Telegraph to drip-publish MP expenses online’. [Update #1: Editor of Telegraph.co.uk, Marcus...
View ArticleJon Bernstein: What MPs’ expenses tells us about the clash between new and...
The narrative is familiar to anyone who has followed the broader technology industry for any length of time – new triumphs over old. The reality, inevitably, is more complex, more layered, more...
View ArticleReuters Great Debate: Lib Dem’s Nick Clegg – a social media interview
Journalism.co.uk is taking part in a Reuters event today – an interview with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, where all questions put to the MP have been solicited through and posted to social media...
View ArticleTrinidad’s tabloids scream loudly, but Barbados’ press could do with some balls
John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcasting at Coventry University. He was born in Guyana and regularly returns there to help build local media, print and TV. Previous posts looked at the Caricom...
View ArticleThe growth of online watchdogs: are they ‘journalism’ and does it matter?
The influence of UK-based democracy organisation, mySociety, often gets forgotten, perhaps deliberately downplayed, in the British press. Let’s go back to the MP expenses row, for example. Well before...
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