Nadine Dorries has removed all legal barriers on Rupert Murdoch interfering in the editorial independence of the Times and the Sunday Times, ending restrictions that have been in place since he bought the newspapers in 1981.
Interesting timing but this rather artificial separation that was put in place when he bought The Times and Sunday Times (from different people then), has mostly been a fig leaf. It also appears to matter less now that Rupert no longer owns Sky. He has always subtly exerted influence over the two editors and rather more directly over The Sun and formerly The News of the World which were never covered by this rule. Oddly, and I was there when we did it, The Times and The Sunday websites are already merged (which the then editor of the ST and now editor of The Times loathed) so much of this will be academic in reality.
Why it matters: The revelation by Haberman, whose coverage as a New York Times White House correspondent was followed obsessively by Trump, adds a vivid new dimension to his lapses in preserving government documents. Axios was provided an exclusive first look at some of her reporting.
Maggie gets a lot of stick for having been so close to Trump and practising what some people call "access journalism". However, I reckon she gave us all an astounding insight into his personality and behaviour. It is odd though to save such juicy details for a book rather than publish in the NYT. That has become a big issue in the Church of Journalism in the US, especially after Bob Woodward's revelations about Trump fearing Covid.
Former President Donald Trump's former communications director said Thursday that Trump is "terrified" of a forthcoming book by The New York Times' reporter Maggie Haberman. Alyssa Farah made the comment during an appearance on ABC's "The View.
Ward released what she said were transcripts of conversations with Jeffrey Epstein and the Vanity Fair editor-in-chief, who called her a “serial liar.”
This person not messing around and it is an excellent question why she was permitted to stay so long if the leonine editor thought her a liar.
The plaintiff in Palin v. New York Times ran up against her biggest obstacle yet — herself.
Three stories on the ghastly Sarah Palin and her attempt to sue the New York Times for libel. It's almost impossible to prove malice in the US but there are so many slip ups evident in the process that she might just make it. I don't think, despite the Politico piece below, that it entirely puts the illustrious comment section of the NYT in a totally flattering light. They seem to have been overly thinking of paper deadlines, not digital.
The plaintiff in Palin v. New York Times ran up against her biggest obstacle yet — herself.
Ousted editor James Bennet is the only actor in the libel suit drama who is on the level.
Gina Miller and Theresa May are happy to be in Bloody Difficult Women, but the Mail man wanted his lawyers to vet the script, says author Tim Walker
Tim has a vicious pen and it seems to be well directed here.
In the next decade, Amy Webb predicts that synthetic biology will be as common as artificial intelligence.
Amy is clever and has a coherence that few in her role have.
Producing public interest news takes time, energy and craft. PINF commissioned filmmaker Emilie Flower to make a series of films about the craft of public interest news. We talked to her about her approach to the subject.
Although media outlets are trying to attract younger audiences, very few venture onto the short video platform with more than 1 billion users worldwide, nearly half of whom are under 24
Shifting a 68,000-person social networking company toward the theoretical metaverse has caused internal disruption and uncertainty.
Vice Media Group’s digital division, like many digital media outlets, currently generates the majority of its revenue from advertising. And like many media companies, VMG’s digital arm is on a revenue diversification kick.
I sometimes think about what the, oh, 1997 version of me would find most surprising about the news industry of today. For all that’s happened in the worlds of newspapers and TV news, I think it might be magazines that would throw me for the biggest loop.
Forbes has really destroyed what little reputation it had, joining Newsweek as a once-respected magazine that shot itself in the foot and head.
The pandemic has attached “rocket boosters” to news live blogs and led to more investment from publishers as sites try to more closely mirror the experience of social media scrolling.
I remain sceptical how deeply users are engaged in live blogs and how effective they are at driving subscriptions and loyalty, but I might be wrong.
Ukraine-Russia and a new axis between Beijing and Moscow feature in this weekly version of a thing I do for a New Zealand site: plus a crisis in wasabi, the c-word in the Wagatha Christie case, and more.