One of the best journalists the BBC has had , one who exemplified the BBC at it's best, and one who had a long and profitable career with the Corporation. Working with them until just about the end of his life. I for one will miss his input towards BBC News journalism.

Via journalism.co.uk comes this story on an American study which concludes that the crisis facing journalism requires the government step in. Wired says: The news media has a bad case of...

I am a fan of the BBC, but I also feel there is a large amount of laziness amongst journalists which is endemic within the BBC. Locally the BBC news team in East Anglia, and I am sure in other regions too, miss real political news stories and instead only print what is sent to them in press releases by the councils. This means we get a half baked version of the news, and this is true beyond the po...

Over at Journalism.co.uk they carry a report from clumsily-named Voices Online Blogging Conference about the poor state of investigative journalism in the UK. It's been said many times before and it...

Yes. That's the simple answer but it's taken us two days to come up with that. Well, not strictly true, it's taken us two days to set out the changing landscape of journalism and the implications of that for journalists, journalism and our unions. I've been taking part in an International...

The NUJ has today launched a petition calling on the South West’s politicians to stand up for journalism. Tim Lezard, who represents the region’s journalists on the union’s national executive council, said: “Journalists play a key role in enabling citizens to take part in the democratic process, yet we’re finding it harder and harder to serve

Plaid MEP Jill Evans has expressed her disappointment that Welsh language journalism has been excluded from a prestigious EU journalism award. She wants the rules changed to include Welsh language journalism. The European Parliament Journalism Prize is awarded annually to journalists who have displayed excellence in covering major European issues and promoted a better understanding of European ins...

The IFJ has just launched a new Ethical Journalism Initiative (EJI) to empower journalists and media professionals with the values and mission to help restore pride in their profession. The initiative aims to help strengthen press freedom, reinforce quality journalism and consolidate editorial independence. about it here.

Budding journalists and people writing for journalists (that’s you, PR people) could do worse than read the Guardian’s writing guide to journalism out today. The introduction by columnist and former Times editor, Simon Jenkins, is a must-read for anyone tasked with communicating news via the written word. He recalls a “ferocious sub editor” at The Times who would

So we now have the UK winners of this years most pointless, and may I say invidious prize. The European parliament's own journalism prize (UK chapter) have selected for this coveted award someone in each of the four categories - TV, Radio, Internet and print. They will now do battle with the same number from all 26 countries.What is fascinating to note is that two of the four British entry's are f...