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# Hack update
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2004/06/hack_update/
- Published: 2004-06-27T13:26:04.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T08:55:53.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

A few notable developments on the journalism front in the week just gone:

[The Barclay brothers won control](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3828791.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) of the *Daily Telegraph*, although city analysts [have their doubts about the deal](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3832577.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). Still, they have to be better owners for the paper than [Lord & Lady Black](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3838515.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).

The BBC announced [its new policy](http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/neil%5Freport.shtml?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), post-Hutton, for news journalists. At the heart of it is a [new journalism academy](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv%5Fand%5Fradio/3831857.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) for all its 7,000 journalists. This should please me, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable about the whole affair. Sure, the standards of reporting at the Beeb, like everywhere, are a little shabby at times, but is self-flagellation to this degree necessary?