And so I’ve come to write my look back at 2010 – a sort of between Christmas-and-New Year special – in which I pick out the things that have made an impact on me this year from the political, to the personal, and the things that just didn’t quite make sense. Or just or madeContinue reading “That was the year that was”
Category Archives: City University
The ‘dark arts’ debated
The idea of a panel of journalists debating phone-hacking, alongside other interested parties, was always going to be an interesting discussion and one worth having, not least because the ethics of the ‘dark arts’ are very rarely de-constructed in public. I went along to yet another evening debate at City University last week for aContinue reading “The ‘dark arts’ debated”
Wikileaks, the moral high ground, and the question of accountability
Julian Assange was swamped by a media scrum at the end of his talk “Who put Wikileaks on the moral high ground?” A very interesting question indeed, posed by the right-leaning Times columnist David Aaronovitch at a debate to which I was invited at City University last Thursday evening, where, as a lot of people who readContinue reading “Wikileaks, the moral high ground, and the question of accountability”
My hopes, dreams and ambitions for journalism
Today I’m taking my first steps towards a new career – something I really should have done quite a long time ago in fact – with my first evening of lectures at City University for an MA in Political Journalism. The summer has given me plenty of time to read around my subject and IContinue reading “My hopes, dreams and ambitions for journalism”
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