The Murdoch dynasty’s future is being decided
Also this week: The Observer up for sale, crisis at the Jewish Chronicle, and Huw Edwards’ day in court.
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How the Jewish Chronicle lost its way
Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.
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Long live the low life
Jeremy Clarke’s final Spectator columns, written after his cancer diagnosis, are witty, well balanced and devoid of self-pity.
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Why the far right has turned on the press
Recent unrest in England has revealed that intimidation, assault and abuse of journalists is on the rise.
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Gaza and the new digital divide
A widening generation gap is polarising online news audiences – and coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has made the rift…
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Censorship does not work
Shielding audiences from the lies of Donald Trump and other difficult subjects is a betrayal of what journalism is for.
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The maverick of Fleet Street
Peregrine Worsthorne’s provocativeness, eccentricity and stylishness kept high Toryism alive in the 20th century.
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The lies we tell about Joan Didion
The late author may be the most misunderstood writer in the American canon.
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My investigation into Russell Brand
Also this week: how Friends defined a generation, and the charm of children’s TV.
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Two cheers for the mainstream media
Organisations like the BBC are the last defence against a post-journalistic world.
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The strange corporate rebirth of NME
The music magazine is back in print, but has no editor-in-chief and isn’t on news stands. It’s a “marketing tool”,…
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The Huw Edwards crisis has revealed the BBC’s editorial blind spot
If the corporation is to survive, it needs a robust policy for covering celebrity scandals.
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The decadent society
With the nation consumed by sleaze, the serious business of government is at a standstill.
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Why literary snobs don’t get Bridget Jones
Moralising critics forget the importance of fiction holding up a mirror to society’s flaws.
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Jeremy Clarke was a supreme chronicler of the hand-to-mouth life
I lament the loss of my fellow down-at-heel columnist. We aren’t the kind that hang around for long.
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The race to buy the Telegraph group shows that newspapers are far from done
For the past couple of years the publication has been widely assumed to be in play, following the death of…
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Inside the downfall of Edward Enninful
Did the former Vogue editor really live up to his mission?
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My first days in charge of the Evening Standard prompt a return to office habits
Also this week: a word of warning for Sadiq Khan and reflecting on the new age of AI journalism.
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Keep cameras out of British courtrooms
Excessive media voyeurism can turn a sensitive case into its own content vertical – with seriously negative effects.
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Elise Loehnen: “Wellness as a concept needs to fracture”
The journalist and former chief content officer for Goop on learning not to be good.
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