An oil trading firm’s attempt to gag London’s Guardian newspaper from reporting on toxic waste it dumped in west Africa has been thwarted by a surge of social media outrage.
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Guardian: We’ve been gagged from reporting Parliament
The UK’s Guardian newspaper says it has been censored from reporting on Parliamentary proceedings, after a gag order was placed on the details of a question to be asked later this week in Parliament.
Guardian apologises to its subbies: OK, you’re journalists, too
The Guardian has retracted the line “journalists and subeditors are not expected to be multilingual” in a recent article, after it presumably caused offense to the paper’s subs. “Subeditors are journalists” said the paper after changing the line to “reporters and subeditors”.
Guardian recreates Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath
The Guardian are recreating the Route 66 journey from John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, to examine the differences in this modern day Depression, where Mexicans have become the new Okies and suspicion of government is high.
newspaper death watch Guardian’s Observer on the chopping block
With finances plumbing new lows, the Guardian Media Group is considering closing its iconic Sunday paper The Observer after 218 years of publication in favour of a new magazine published on a Thursday.
Guardian winning the online tweet-war
Stories from The Guardian have been tweeted 328,288 times over the last four months — head-and-shoulders above any other British newspaper site. Just what are they doing so right?
Why investigative journalism needs … investigating
The really shocking aspect of the News International phone hacking revelations is that they have appeared in public, argues Crikey publisher Eric Beecher. The cat is out of the bag.
Guardian declares war on News International
Under the wily hand of editor Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian has obviously decided to roast News International slowly, writes Alex Mitchell from London.
What News won’t tell you about their hush-money payout
Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases over journalists’ involvement in criminal methods to dig dirt on politicians and celebrities. Don’t expect to read about it in The Oz…
Revealed: Murdoch papers paid £1m to keep phone-hacked victims quiet
A Guardian exclusive: News Group Newspapers have paid out-of-court settlements to cover up journalists’ “repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.”
Lessons from Guardian’s people power test
The MP expenses scandal was a big story to cover. How’d The Guardiancope? By putting the public-records dump online and asking readers to sift. Brilliant, says Michael Anderson.
Guardian harnesses people power for MP expenses investigation
Almost 20,000 have answered The Guardian’s call for a hand to sort through the 457,153 pages of British MP expense claims.
The Guardian’s Marx-Engels model
In much the same way that Engels subsidised Marx’s writing career by managing factories in Manchester, Guardian Media Group are supposed to safeguard the Guardian “in perpetuity”. It’s a model that has come under some stress lately, says Peter Kirwan, but it’s one that works.
The PM, the newspaper and the failed putsch
A week ago today, the strongly pro-Labour Guardian newspaper ran a full-page editorial calling for the Prime Minister to go. Good journalistic practice or an abuse of its position? asks Stephen Glover.
Having a Crete time far from London
Sometimes getting away from it all can have its own frustrations.
Guy Rundle: UK cops take a (deserved) media beating
What could possible have led to this sudden outbreak of awareness of the autonomously repressive nature of the police force amongst the patriotic papers?
Guy Rundle: Last days of the UK Independent?
The UK Independent may die before the summer.
