Journalism World 11 November, 2013

Britain Needs a First Amendment

Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster and the author of “From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath.” In this op-ed, he argues that both the left and right defend freedom for journalists — but only those they like.

"What we have today in Britain is a tribal view of press freedom. Both sides want to defend freedom for the journalists they like while silencing the journalists they despise. Neither side seems to understand that the moment you invite politicians or the police to determine what is and is not acceptable journalism, freedom is eroded for all of us, whatever our political beliefs.

Oh, for a British First Amendment."

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Journalism World 27 October, 2013

Phony balance, manufactured conflict: The media just confuses the truth

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By feasting on controversy and focusing on the trivial, the media misinforms us about policy and misserves us all. Read excerpts from Thomas Patterson's book "Informing the News".

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Journalism World 12 October, 2013

The rise of the reader: journalism in the age of the open web

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Katharine Viner, deputy editor of the Guardian and editor-in-chief of Guardian Australia, gave the AN Smith lecture in Melbourne on Wednesday night. Here's her speech:

"I'd like to begin with a true story.

I was recently conducting a job interview for a Guardian role, and I asked the interviewee, who had worked only in print journalism, how he thought he'd cope working in digital news. In reply he said, "Well, I've got a computer. I've been using computers for years."

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