Daily review of UK and world papers, celebration of the history of photojournalism, media law and style-guide tips and global journalism stories for Saturday 22nd October 2022.
Review of UK papers. Broadsheets. Telegraph: ‘Sunak races to secure majority of Tory MPs’, FT: ‘Investors and MPs alarmed by idea of Johnson’s return to No 10’, Times: ‘Johnson “will prove fatal”‘, & Guardian: ‘Tory tribes go to war.’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1583714483754897410
Review of UK papers. Tabloids. Star: ‘Bozo back at No 10- Now they’re serving up Aubergine’, Morning Star: ‘”Last resort” Rwanda planes grounded’, Mirror: ‘Johnson- surely not again’, & Sun: ‘I’m flying back, we’re going to do this.. I’m up for it.’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1583715734462398468
Review of UK papers. Middle Markets. i weekend: ‘Britain’s next PM- Sunak leads Johnson’, Express: ‘Boris- “I’m up for it”, last night’s London Evening Standard: ‘Race for No. 10 hots up’, & Mail: ‘Could Boris and Rishi now unite to save Tories?’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1583716751283408896
Review of world papers. South Africa’s Saturday Citizen: ‘Mabuza “out in the cold”‘, New York Times: ‘Europe tires of high costs linked to war’, Times of India: ‘Crack down on hate-mongers- SC to states’, & Le Monde Weekend: ‘Ecological planning – Borne explains its method.’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1583717931296337922
Style Tips. See: https://theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-o Guardian’s on ‘OAPs, old age pensioners Do not use: they are pensioners or old people; do not use old or elderly to describe someone under 75 (the editors reserve the right to increase this upper limit, as appropriate). https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1583749390069796866
Celebration of the history of photojournalism. George Bain news agency image of ‘Rockstall and Quickwell in Mercer’- Two racing drivers in their car at Astor Cup automobile race in 1916. https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1583751528955129857
Media Law Tips. Section 46 of Youth Justice & Criminal Evidence Act 1999 gives Crown Court judges power to give life-long anonymity to adult trial witnesses. See 2021 appeal by weekly paper https://bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2021/1165.html Pembrokeshire Herald, which was unsuccessful. https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1583762359289806849
‘Egos clashed when American Rapper Kanye West – now renamed Ye – walked out of a lively interview with Piers Morgan for TalkTV.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6989237588293251072?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://www.joe.ie/news/kanye-west-piers-morgan-757002
North American newspapers 22nd October 2022
‘With rerun of the Tory PM election spare a thought for broadcasters in Brazil for Presidential elections between incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6989261085811863552?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-electoral-court-cracks-down-disinformation-ahead-lula-bolsonaro-runoff-2022-10-20/
‘After an FBI raid at his Virginia home in April former ABC News journalist James Gordon Meek has disappeared or as a colleague said he had fallen off the face of the earth.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6989272585565806592?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://twitter.com/meekwire
French newspapers 22nd October 2022
Reuters and Arab News reports: ‘Republican National Committee sues Google over email spam filters.’ See: https://www.arabnews.com/node/2185821/media
Ian Jack writes for the Guardian: ‘The BBC marks scenes from my life, as it must do for millions – aren’t we lucky to have it?’ See: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/22/bbc-centenary-music
Guardian reports: ‘Murdoch’s succession: who wins from move to reunite Fox and News Corp? Deal would seal legacy with favoured heirs, but markets question whether companies should merge in the first place.’ See: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/21/murdochs-succession-who-wins-from-move-to-reunite-fox-and-news-corp
