In these times, Britons trust Beeb best
Despite the Crowngate and Blue Peter scandals earlier this year, 61 per cent of respondents to a British Journalism Review-YouGov poll said they trusted BBC journalists “a great deal or a fair amount”, ahead of ITV, Channel 4 and up-market reporters, and way ahead of red-top and mid-market newspapers. That’s the good news. The bad news is… well, read on.
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‘Good journalism isn’t dead. It’s terribly ill’
There is a black cloud hanging over the head of the fourth estate and it is smothering journalism — surely, and not slowly. It’s PR that Nick Davies, award-winning investigative reporter and author of Flat Earth News, is talking about.
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War reporting is dead
It has been shot in the head by ‘embedded journalism’. “Reporting conflicts in foreign lands has become an extension of government justification for the war,” says Phillip Knightley, “rather than the public reality of war.”
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NUJ seeks sensitive reports on immigrants
The UK union of journalists has urged members to “help nail asylum myths”, following concern over some reporters’ loose use of language on immigration issues.
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PR eats into quality journalism: UK study
Journalists today produce three times more copy but less original reportage than they did 20 years ago, according to a Cardiff University study. Result: heavy reliance on ‘pre-packaged’ news. “Newspapers have turned into copy factories,” a correspondent said. “This leaves less time for real investigations, or meeting and developing contacts.”
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Well done, says public
The British public appears to bear the media no ill-will over the Harry episode — in fact, the majority has only praise for the scribes. Jameela Oberman reports.
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Letter from the editors
Why we launched Interjunction.
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