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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.

Downstream: Does the US Want Julian Assange Dead? Interview With Yanis Varoufakis

On Monday a British judge ruled that Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States on charges of espionage and computer hacking. Yet despite that verdict the judgment arguably represented a blow to freedom of the press – with the judge accepting the substance of the case made by the US state department. […]

Black Britannia: The Race Today Collective Demonstrated the Radical Potential of Journalism

Bryan Knight

Between 1973-88, the revolutionary Race Today journal and collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain, highlighting the limitless opportunities and impacts campaigning journalism can have. This is a history present-day activists should take heed of, writes Bryan Knight in the third instalment of our Black Britannia series.

Novara Docs: The Extradition of Julian Assange

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange shot to fame in 2010 with a series of revelations that shook the world. 10 years later Assange faces up to 175 years imprisonment pending an extradition hearing this September. Whatever the outcome of his case, the political implications for whistleblowing, journalism, and indeed democracy itself may depend on the fate […]

Opinion: To Be Impartial the BBC Must Change Its Relationship to Britain’s Billionaire-owned Newspapers

Aaron Bastani

As someone born in Britain the BBC is one of the institutions I am most proud of, writes Aaron Bastani, but it could be so much better, offering a genuine counterweight to a billionaire class intent on rigging the country’s democratic process. It won’t do that, and live up to its own charter, until it re-thinks its relationship to the rightwing press.

Establishment Journalists Only Call Out ‘Fake News’ When It Suits Them

Aaron Bastani

The mainstream press should be speaking truth to power. Instead they are failing to take their jobs seriously by pedalling fake news, argues Aaron Bastani.

Interview: Interview With Owen Jones

“The main thing I’ve learned from working in the British media is that much of it is a cult. Afflicted by a suffocating groupthink, intolerant of critics, hounds internal dissenters, full of people who made it because of connections and/or personal background rather than merit.” The above tweet from Owen Jones set off an inferno […]

Whistleblowing in the Age of Trump

Tasmin Lockwood

Obama's treatment of whistleblowers provided fertile ground for Trump's running war with the media to grow. Fake news, alternative facts, and brutal repression of journalists and whistleblowers will only increase in the age of Trump.

IMOBastani: Paul Nuttall Will You Resign?

Aaron Bastani on the forthcoming by-election in Stoke on Trent Central and John Harris dreaming of a UKIP win. Why John, why?

OMFG Sarkar: On Silencing, Trigger Warnings & Trauma

Ash Sarkar explores the phenomenon of no-platforming and argues for a different understanding of the politics of trauma.

Interview: Interview: Antony Loewenstein

Aaron Bastani speaks to Antony Loewenstein, author of 'Disaster Capitalism', about migration, Europe and what it means to be a journalist in the 21st century.

IMOBastani: Why Are The UK Media Always Wrong?

Throughout the Corbyn surge the whole of the mainstream media has been in denial about his popularity, seeking to attack him at every turn, now they've been resoundingly proven wrong, is it time to reject these institutions for good?

3 Ways the Decline of Local Newspapers is Undermining Democracy

Alex Webster

Underfunded and overworked, local media outlets are in decline. Once a staple of local communities, they are being swallowed up and hollowed out to the detriment of the democratic function they're supposed to play.

We Need to Talk About the BBC

Tom Mills

Tom Mills, co-editor of the New Left Project, argues that we need to demand a more accountable and democratic media.

Regime Lackies: 5 Muppet BBC Employees

Novara Reporters

Is the BBC a right or left-wing organisation? It's more than that - it is a regime broadcaster whose mendacity is expressed in the careers of 5 of its employees, past and present, listed below.

On The Figure Of The Troll

byStrategy

In this short piece 'ByStrategy' offers a brief genealogy of the term troll, examining why its meaning has been subject to certain changes with the rise of commercially successful 'social media' platforms.

Columnism, complicity and crisis

James Butler

Comment by ‘radical’ young writers is cheap fodder for a media sector with no sustainable funding model that is turning its back on investigation and reflection.

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