political journalism

General Election 2019: the news media failed profoundly — but not in the way you think Members Public

Reuters Institute research shows that most of what we believe about the general public and politics news is wrong — and that we are profoundly failing to engage them.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
BBC

Dominic Cummings’ blogpost, direct dialogue and its threat to mainstream political journalism Members Public

The Prime Minster's Chief Special Advisor outlined a new vision for the civil service in a blogpost — and with it, a new way of communicating policy, in way we need to pay attention to.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Politics

Boris created EU "fake news" 20 years ago Members Public

Fascinating quote in a New York Times piece on the Brexit-backing British newspapers [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/world/europe/london-tabloids-brexit.html] (and principally, The Sun): > With little regard for the truth — he was previously fired by The Times of London for making up a quote — Mr.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
boris johnson

How the alt-right media machine stole the "Fake News" tag Members Public

This really is a mark of just how efficient and savvy the media machine around Trump is [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-retire-the-tainted-term-fake-news/2017/01/06/a5a7516c-d375-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html] : > But though the term [Fake News] hasn’t been around long, its meaning already is lost. Faster than you

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
fake news

The end of presidential access journalism in the US Members Public

The newly-elected Donald Trump seems determined to cut the press out of the equation

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
donald trump

Trump: from sideshow to president Members Public

Huffington Post, July 2015 [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-note-about-our-coverage-of-donald-trumps-campaign_us_55a8fc9ce4b0896514d0fd66?section=politics] : > After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won’t report on Trump’s campaign as part of The Huffington Post’s political coverage. Instead,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
media

The human behind the politician mask Members Public

A touching moment in Rachel Sylvester & Alice Thomson’s interview with Alan Johnson for The Times [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-have-got-to-recapture-the-labour-party-otherwise-its-dead-and-finished-3r30ghb7g?shareToken=9c54c79e70b7b50cc50cdd6643c1e7e0] : > When people ask him how many children he has, he always says four — sometimes even making up a job for Natalie. “It’s

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
interviews

Why this general election is a great test of news sites' digital evolution Members Public

The advent of fixed term parliaments [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_2011] in the UK will make this a particularly interesting general election from a digital journalism point of view. This will be the first election where the newspapers (and others sites – but the newspapers are the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital journalism