Alex Thomson
How can it be normal to ban journalists from the football?
There are football clubs in England and Scotland who feel it is perfectly normal to ban any journalist guilty of perpetrating journalism they disapprove of.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
I’m a journalist because I’m angry – you should be too
#AdviceForYoungJournalists? No, you won’t get rich from journalism. Yes, it is still worth doing.
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Alex Thomson
Keeping jailed journalists in the public eye with gaffer tape
Three Al Jazeera journalists including one Briton have been in prison for a year today. As the world seems to get ever more dangerous for journalists, there are hopes of an appeal in the courts.
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Jon Snow
I've worn the same suit for a fortnight – but not deliberately
News that one of my fellow male presenters in Australia managed to wear the same suit for a year without anyone noticing has set me thinking about my own wardrobe.
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Paul Mason
Why Israel is losing the social media war over Gaza
For the first time in a major Arab-Israeli conflict, the world has access to non-traditional sources of reality such as Twitter – and it means Israel is losing the battle for hearts and minds.
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Jon Snow
Is news ruining our lives?
I argue that we stand at the dawn of the golden age of what we have come to describe as journalism.
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Alex Thomson
Q&A: How foreign journalists operate in Syria
Judging by my twitter feed and inbox, an awful lot of people out there have some very wrong ideas about how ‘official’ reporting of the Syrian war happens. So let’s clear up some wild ideas out there.
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Jon Snow
Where have all the women gone?
The awards ceremony celebrating the best in the TV journalism business was too male, too white and as such, all too predictable.
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Jon Snow
Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Poised for journalism's golden age
Channel 4 News Presenter Jon Snow gave the Hugh Cudlipp lecture at the London College of Communication. You can read the full text of his speech here.
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Jon Snow
A crisis that may affect us for the rest of our lives
“No one knows where it would end… Dublin? Madrid? Lisbon? Rome? Shiver our timbers… London?”
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Jon Snow
All in a day…
“The Queen’s phone number sold by one of Her loyal Royal protection officers. The Prime Minister of the day’s phone, family medical records and bank account raided illegally. Well, that’s only the start.”
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Jon Snow
Is there a conspiracy anywhere within the hacking scandal?
“This is a matter which touches many aspects of our public life – politics, policing, and media ethics – and potential conspiracies between several of them.”
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Jon Snow
Serendipity strikes!
OK folks – so there are some teething problems – ‘tis true that when you arrive at Snowblog you find yourself back in January.
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Jon Snow
Stephen Farrell and the lethal pursuit of truth
“We’re entitled to the protection of the First Amendment – no more.” So read my angry overnight text from an old New York Times friend with whom I survived reporting the civil war in El Salvador in the early nineteen eighties. We can be scandalised that the journalistic activities of Stephen Farrell, working in Afghanistan…
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Jon Snow
Newsreading's a piece of cake, eh?
So Terry Wogan considers newscasters as “self-important” and the job a “piece of cake“. He’s quite right.. or nearly right. It’s a piece of cake so long as you can absent yourself from any involvement in generating the material that you are reading. The moment you combine newsreading with actual journalism, going after stories, trying…