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The Times clutches its pearls as the BBC threatens to cut four jobs www.thetimes.com/article/ad0b...

What an incredible story. What an amazing person. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK politics might feel chaotic right now but the data tells a more stable (& more interesting) story. 🔗 tinyurl.com/45yn9mr7 🧵👇 #polsky #politics #Seneddelection #politicalcommunication #polls

Heavily topped tubers. Fine second mention work

BBC: Former BBC Woman's Hour presenter Dame Jenni Murray dies at 75

Well done Sky News - great to see some on the ground reporting from Tehran news.sky.com/video/share-...

🧵 1/9 As part of the Enhancing the Impartiality of Political News project at @cujournmedcul.bsky.social, @stephencushion.bsky.social, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, @maxwellmodell.bsky.social & myself have been looking at how complaints about impartiality are dealt with & understood. #impartiality

New policing and media charter will restore mutual trust www.thetimes.com/article/b71d...

Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

I like the idea that the White House is populated by post modernists crying “this is it! The moment of hyperreality!”

Imagine the echo chamber these half wits must live in to go on TV and spout this nonsense

The new season of agents of shield sounds a bit duff

New research by the Impartiality project team (@stephencushion.bsky.social, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, @maxwellmodell.bsky.social & myself) tracked coverage of the Greens on BBC & ITV News at 10. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yzmeujxm 🧵👇 #impartiality #GreenParty #GortonandDenton #byelection

This is a very nice piece about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. But do not under any circumstances look below the line. www.thetimes.com/article/ff19...

Very sorry to hear that Paul Conroy has died. Here’s his most recent piece from an assignment in Cuba open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

The search for someone to do the worst job in media continues…

Here's the full note from Walsh.

Write up of our latest research on impartiality, and why the Greens are still struggling for a broadcast breakthrough

The murky truth about Britain’s forgotten hostage John Cantlie www.thetimes.com/article/1691...

This graphic pretty incredible.

New blog! The @greenparty.org.uk striking victory brings into focus how the broadcasters treat the party. Despite sustained improvements in opinion ratings, our new research suggests broadcasters still treat them as a minor party of little electoral significance. tinyurl.com/35yzcsas (1/6)

As the Greens celebrate victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, TV news bosses might want to reflect on why the party's improving election and opinion poll results are not matched by more frequent appearances on bulletins. A trend that's the mirror image of Reform UK.

"Marie Colvin died because she was in the heart of the battle acting as a witness. All of us in this space should look back at her death as a reminder of how urgent it is to preserve the truth. When borders are closed, disinformation thrives. Narratives are manufactured and twisted."

Really shocking case. Important to understand whether this is an isolated instance or part of wider intrusion - the more information comes out, the less it looks like a one-off. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

great piece that makes me almost nostalgic for years of hanging around on (non-royal) doorsteps in the rain with journalism's most world weary people, snappers

A good scoop in The Times today about the search for the next BBC DG - but what does the latest name that's being suggested tell us about how it's going? open.substack.com/pub/mattwals...

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters. If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

Adding to the gaiety of the nation

Well I for one find it easy to trust the words of a man whose lectern is lying

Hard to think of a more basic media training rule than do not get into arguments over matters of personal finance fact with Martin Lewis

Quite the scenes on Good Morning Britain as Ed Balls tells Kemi Badenoch her student loan interest plan will only help the richest ex-students. After she insists he's wrong, GMB bring on Martin Lewis to back up Balls' argument and tell her the plan makes no sense.

I can’t remember the last time a single photo dominated the front page of every major newspaper in the UK. Phil Noble of Reuters, take a bow. 👏🫡

This is terrific. And nicely explains why Andrew has been named before charge

This great. All the elements of news gathering success - contacts, preparation, talent and luck.

Terrific column

How Robert Capa invented a style of photography — and his own legend www.thetimes.com/article/19c5...

Hard-hitting public service journalism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trying to get started writing the meat of a chapter. But unable to resist the overwhelming urge to reorganise my office.

An explosion of splenetic incomprehension BTL www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Lunch with the FT: Jeremy Bowen I spoke to the BBC's international editor about Israel, impartiality, and whether Gaddafi farted through interviews: www.ft.com/content/b139...

BBC accepts errors in reporting the killing of Alex Pretti

A lesson here for people who think direct grant might be a replacement for the Licence Fee www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Terrific Lyse Doucet piece from Tehran on Today

Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to… nation.cymru/news/the-new...

Although, as May’s election in Wales is set to show, choosing the right system to replace FPTP is not straightforward

so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter

How to be a journalist, by one of the best. Carlos Hernández died this week. @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...