Tag: journalism
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
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 […]
To Be Impartial the BBC Must Change Its Relationship to Britain’s Billionaire-owned Newspapers
Aaron Bastani
Establishment Journalists Only Call Out ‘Fake News’ When It Suits Them
Aaron Bastani
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
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?
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: 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.
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
We Need to Talk About the BBC
Tom Mills
Regime Lackies: 5 Muppet BBC Employees
Novara Reporters
On The Figure Of The Troll
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