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Opinion: Opinion Journalism Is Now Mostly Liberal Hand-Wringing and Racist Dog-Whistles

Juliet Jacques

Comment journalism once seemed a genuinely dynamic, democratic form. Now it’s mostly overpaid Times columnists sugarcoating fascism and Guardian grandees putting themselves on the wrong side of history, writes Juliet Jacques.

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Report: BBC Union Reps Warned Staff Against Attending the Union’s Own Vigil for Palestinian Journalists

Rivkah Brown

In emails seen by Novara Media, BBC staffers and National Union of Journalists representatives warned colleagues against attending a vigil organised by…the National Union of Journalists. Rivkah Brown reports.

Review: Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say

Juliet Jacques

The director's new film 2073 gestures at social ills but struggles to name culprits, let alone solutions. The result is to induce despair rather than prompt action, writes Juliet Jacques.

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Long Read: How the Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief Caved to Pro-Israel Pressure

Rivkah Brown

Having started her career as an unflinchingly pro-Palestine author-activist, Guardian editor Katharine Viner has since risen to one of the most powerful positions in media. The ascent has changed her, colleagues say. Rivkah Brown reports.

Novara FM: Engine of Immortality

What will be lost when the internet renders print culture obsolete?

Report: Palestinian Journalists Are Risking Their Lives to Counteract the ‘Israeli Narrative’

Daisy Schofield

Palestinian journalists are working in ‘dire’ conditions to show the world what is happening in Gaza, despite Israeli forces make it harder and harder for them to report.

Opinion: British Comment Journalism is in the Gutter – Signed, a Comment Journalist

Moya Lothian-McLean

Revelations in the wake of Notting Hill carnival that the Daily Mail ghostwrites some of its guest columns is only the latest stain on a degraded medium, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.

Novara FM: The Oxygen of Democracy

Amy Goodman, trailblazing host of Democracy Now!, tells Ash Sarkar why American journalism is always under threat.

Is Political Journalism Broken?

From Dominic Cummings’ cosy texts to Laura Kuenssberg, to Boris Johnson having the Telegraph’s editorial board on speed dial, the cohort of journalists who make up the ‘Lobby’ have got a bad rap. Is mainstream political journalism in terminal decline? Or will the rise of independent and alternative media redefine ‘political journalism’ forever? And how […]

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Report: Terfs Are Marginal in France. A New Media Platform Plans to Keep It That Way

Olly Haynes

Camped out in an empty Parisian office block, XY Media is a new media frontier of trans liberation. Olly Haynes reports.

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Opinion: The Trojan Horse Affair Gave Birth to the Prevent Strategy. It’s Time to Kill It

Rob Faure Walker

The state-sanctioned Islamophobia exposed by Brian Reed and Hamza Syed lives on in Prevent, writes Rob Faure Walker. It's time to end this disastrous strategy.

Analysis: The Far Right is Using the Ukraine Crisis to Cement Its Power

Volodya Vagner

As Russia sends troops into eastern Ukraine, the militant ethnonationalist Azov movement has spotted an opportunity. Volodya Vagner reports.

Peter Limbourg (Director General, Deutsche Welle, Germany) and Salil Shetty (Secretary General, Amnesty International) pictured at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2017

Report: German State Broadcaster Fires Seven Arab Journalists in Supposed Antisemitism Purge

Rivkah Brown

Deutsche Welle employees say the firing spree reflects the organisation’s increasingly hardline pro-Israel stance. Rivkah Brown reports.

Opinion: Why is Labour Broke?

Aaron Bastani

Labour’s membership has fallen significantly under Keir Starmer. Yet Westminster journalists are happy to let the leadership lie about its dire financial situation, blaming Jeremy Corbyn - who raised a record-breaking amount for the party - for its own ineptitude. Aaron Bastani explains.

Opinion: Judith Butler’s Censorship by the Guardian Shows Who’s Really Being Silenced in the Fight for Trans Rights

Moya Lothian-McLean

Despite ‘gender critical’ feminists' cries that they are being censored, the Guardian cutting a sizeable chunk of its interview with gender theorist Judith Butler shows which side is really being subjected to the violence of silence in the battle for trans liberation.

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Opinion: BuzzFeed News Wanted to Be Radical – Instead It Was Mainstream Media With Listicles

Justin Schlosberg

BuzzFeed’s experiment with serious journalism appears to be over, with the company shuttering much of its own and the recently acquired Huffington Post's news operations. This has less to do with ‘market forces’ than the company’s failure to be subversive, writes media academic Justin Schlosberg.

Downstream: Is the Left Failing on Free Speech? Interview With Ronan Burtenshaw

Does the right actually care about free speech? Why should free speech matter to the left? Aaron Bastani speaks to editor of Tribune Magazine, Ronan Burtenshaw.

Opinion: The Right is Attempting to Redraw the Boundaries of Reasonable Opinion

Ash Sarkar

Not content to dominate the legislature and own most of the print media, the right also wants to redefine what is reasonable in a bid to discredit experts on the left, argues Ash Sarkar.

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Opinion: Opinion Journalism Is Now Mostly Liberal Hand-Wringing and Racist Dog-Whistles

Juliet Jacques

Report: BBC Union Reps Warned Staff Against Attending the Union’s Own Vigil for Palestinian Journalists

Rivkah Brown

Long Read: How the Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief Caved to Pro-Israel Pressure

Rivkah Brown

Novara FM: Engine of Immortality

Report: Palestinian Journalists Are Risking Their Lives to Counteract the ‘Israeli Narrative’

Daisy Schofield

Opinion: British Comment Journalism is in the Gutter – Signed, a Comment Journalist

Moya Lothian-McLean

Novara FM: The Oxygen of Democracy

Is Political Journalism Broken?

Report: Terfs Are Marginal in France. A New Media Platform Plans to Keep It That Way

Olly Haynes

Opinion: The Trojan Horse Affair Gave Birth to the Prevent Strategy. It’s Time to Kill It

Rob Faure Walker

Analysis: The Far Right is Using the Ukraine Crisis to Cement Its Power

Volodya Vagner

Report: German State Broadcaster Fires Seven Arab Journalists in Supposed Antisemitism Purge

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Why is Labour Broke?

Aaron Bastani

Opinion: Judith Butler’s Censorship by the Guardian Shows Who’s Really Being Silenced in the Fight for Trans Rights

Moya Lothian-McLean

Opinion: BuzzFeed News Wanted to Be Radical – Instead It Was Mainstream Media With Listicles

Justin Schlosberg

Downstream: Is the Left Failing on Free Speech? Interview With Ronan Burtenshaw

Opinion: The Right is Attempting to Redraw the Boundaries of Reasonable Opinion

Ash Sarkar

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Opinion: Opinion Journalism Is Now Mostly Liberal Hand-Wringing and Racist Dog-Whistles

Juliet Jacques

Report: BBC Union Reps Warned Staff Against Attending the Union’s Own Vigil for Palestinian Journalists

Rivkah Brown

Review: Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say

Juliet Jacques

Long Read: How the Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief Caved to Pro-Israel Pressure

Rivkah Brown

Novara FM: Engine of Immortality

Report: Palestinian Journalists Are Risking Their Lives to Counteract the ‘Israeli Narrative’

Daisy Schofield

Opinion: British Comment Journalism is in the Gutter – Signed, a Comment Journalist

Moya Lothian-McLean

Novara FM: The Oxygen of Democracy

Is Political Journalism Broken?

Report: Terfs Are Marginal in France. A New Media Platform Plans to Keep It That Way

Olly Haynes

Opinion: The Trojan Horse Affair Gave Birth to the Prevent Strategy. It’s Time to Kill It

Rob Faure Walker

Analysis: The Far Right is Using the Ukraine Crisis to Cement Its Power

Volodya Vagner

Report: German State Broadcaster Fires Seven Arab Journalists in Supposed Antisemitism Purge

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Why is Labour Broke?

Aaron Bastani

Opinion: Judith Butler’s Censorship by the Guardian Shows Who’s Really Being Silenced in the Fight for Trans Rights

Moya Lothian-McLean

Opinion: BuzzFeed News Wanted to Be Radical – Instead It Was Mainstream Media With Listicles

Justin Schlosberg

Downstream: Is the Left Failing on Free Speech? Interview With Ronan Burtenshaw

Opinion: The Right is Attempting to Redraw the Boundaries of Reasonable Opinion

Ash Sarkar

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