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The journalist breed – by its very nature – is customarily glued to its news and current affairs channels and programmes: the hard glare of the studio lights on Cabinet members and their Shadows; the latest parliamentary vote (following the previous week’s parliamentary vote) on the EU Withdrawal deal; the whole ebb, flow – and…
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Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a new campaign by the British Government “to defend free media around the world.” Speaking at the G7 summit in France on April 5, the Foreign Secretary, together with his Special Envoy on Media Freedom, the international lawyer Amal Clooney, said a high-level panel of legal experts was being…
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From the President’s Desk I must admit I was rather taken aback by the Editor’s column in the last issue of The Journal. If I had known such snobbery existed in the Institute during the 1980s, I might never have joined! It was Bill Tadd who introduced me to the Institute. President in the early…
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The BBC and regional publishers have hailed the success of their Local Democracy Reporter scheme a year on from its launch. Under the £8m a year scheme, the BBC pays for reporters employed by local publishers to cover the work of local councils and other public bodies. In its first year, the initiative has produced…
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The Chartered Institute of Journalists has condemned a decision by the UK’s largest commercial radio company to cut dozens of local radio morning programmes. The Institute warns that the resulting loss of jobs and local and regional identity in radio programming is as damaging as local and regional newspaper closures. Global Radio plans to replace…
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Some years ago I was in Beijing to deliver a lecture on Western media to an audience of elite foreign-language students at Beiwei University. I received an invitation to visit a newly opened Science Park. Later on, in the lobby of my hotel, I bumped into a British correspondent based in the city and invited…
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The Council of Europe has published its annual report on media freedom, Democracy at Risk: Threats and Attacks against Media Freedom in Europe, revealing that press freedom is now at its most fragile since the Cold War. According to the report, “Journalists increasingly face obstruction, hostility and violence as they investigate and report on behalf…
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The Rory Peck Awards celebrate the work of freelancers in news and current affairs across the world. Among the 2018 award-winners were American freelancer Roopa Gogineni and Norwegian-British filmmaker Deeyah Khan, while the Martin Adler Prize was given posthumously to Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The award for news features went to Roopa Gogineni…
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The Electoral Reform Society has welcomed the report of Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee inquiry into “fake news and disinformation” but has warned that unless the report is followed up by urgent action “the integrity of our political system” is itself in jeopardy. ERS director of policy and research Dr Jess Garland described…
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MONOCLE climbs mountains, boards naval ships, and spends time in workshops, ateliers and bakeries to remind readers why France is one of the world’s most visited countries, an economic powerhouse and, possibly, the last hope for global liberalism. Just published, the France Special of the global affairs and lifestyle magazine shines a light on the…
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