Volume 15, Number 3, 2004 |
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ContentsEditorial - Prerogative of the reporter 3Richard Sambrook - Tragedy in the fog of war 7 U.S. REPORTBill Hagerty - King of the New York Times 15Christian Christensen - British is better 23 Brian Winston - The last scandal? 29 Gregor Gall - State of the union 34 Dennis Hackett - Media, schmedia 40 MAGAZINESFelix Dennis - The four horsemen 45Jane Johnson - The secret: sex and celebs 51 Don Berry - Hot news for the Barclays 57 Victor Davis - The boys done good 63 Bryan Rostron - Paul Foot: This star of England 70 BOOK REVIEWSRoy Greenslade on Martin Conboy 74Kevin Maguire on Peter Oborne & Simon Walters 76 Richard Stott on John Lloyd 79 Tessa Mayes on Deborah Chambers, Linda Steiner & Carole Fleming 81 Bill Hagerty on Patrick Skene Catling 84 LETTERS 87 
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Editorial - Prerogative of the reporterSome distinguished practitioners of journalism have stepped forward to express their dissatisfaction with the state of the trade or profession as at present practised in Britain. From his current base in Manhattan, Sir Harold Evans stated his disquiet in a letter to one of his former papers, The Times, putting forward a case for a new Royal Commission on the press. “There is distrust all round,” Sir Harold declared, “distrust of government by the press, distrust of the press in government, and of the press among the public. It should not fester.” [Read full article]
Richard Sambrook - Tragedy in the fog of war“Setting out to improve, strengthen and learn from the experience of life’s events when they go wrong is a proper ambition. It is a stance of strength, not a weakness.” So begins the Neil report into the editorial lessons the BBC has drawn from the Hutton report. Life’s events have provided plenty of experience for those of us in BBC News over the last year... [Read full article]
Bill Hagerty - King of the New York TimesNot many newspaper proprietors have been arrested, although in some cases this may be considered an oversight. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr, chairman and publisher of The New York Times, is one of a rare breed who not only has had his collar felt, and more than once at that, but can talk freely about the circumstances... [Read full article]
Christian Christensen - British is betterSince the start of the war in Iraq, much has been made of the fact that a significant number of Americans are turning to British news sources – such as The Guardian and the BBC – for information regarding the conflict. Figures from The Guardian, for example, indicate that about 40 per cent of the newspaper’s online readers are located in the United States... [Read full article]
Victor Davis - The boys done goodEven if I changed my name to Murdoch or Rothermere, I wouldn’t land a national newspaper job today. No chance. No university degree, you see. Most of my Fleet Street contemporaries of more than half-a-century ago also lacked this desirable qualification, yet were formidably well-read and informed – more so than the graduate journalists of today, it seems to me. But then we did not have television, pop music and obsessive football to distract us from furnishing our minds... [Read full article]
Bryan Rostron - Paul Foot: This star of EnglandRe-reading Paul Foot, only days after his death, what instantly struck me was how his words roar off the page, energising and fresh but above all as ferociously passionate and spot on as the day he wrote them. In that wonderfully direct style, full of wit and brio, one can hear Paul’s own spirited voice. It never wavered. It was not a specially tailored public performance; the man, his life, his work, his titanic integrity and generosity were one. This probably explains how Paul Foot sustained – often against the odds – such an epic and courageous journalistic output... [Read full article]
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