Review of UK and world papers, celebration of the history of photojournalism, media law and style-guide tips and global journalism stories for Wednesday 9th November 2022.
Review of UK papers. Broadsheets. FT: ‘Crypto exchange FTX on the brink’, Telegraph: ‘Williamson quits over bullying allegations’, Guardian: ‘”Unethical, immoral” Williamson quits over claims he bullied staff’, & Times: ‘Households face threat of higher council tax.’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1590451906258034688
Review of UK papers. Middle Markets. Mail: ‘Williamson forced out in “cut your throat” bully row’, i: ‘Williamson resigns amid bullying and new security risk concerns’, Express: ‘Your 300,000 voices have been heard!’, & Evening Standard: ‘Get grip on rail chaos.’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1590453447945777154
Review of UK papers. Tabloids. Star: ‘Fears of a clown’, Metro: ‘He is in and he is out’, Mirror: ‘Hancock faces camp fury- Rumble in the Jungle’, and Sun: ‘Covid rules sent Olivia packing.’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1590454635722313728
Review of world papers. New York Times: ‘Democracies ask why the U.S. cannot fix itself’, Jerusalem Post: ‘”A great deal of concern about the future for Jews in the US”‘, Global Times: ‘J-20s’ first public landing’, & Times of India: ‘Interest to keep importing Russian oil.’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1590455724710428673
Celebration of photojournalism. Bain agency portrait of Abdelhafid of Morocco 1875-1937, Sultan of Morocco from 1908 to 1912 See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Hafid_of_Morocco Signed the protectorate treaty giving de facto control of the country to France. https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1590457400657514496
Media Law Tips. German journalist narrowly loses ECtHR Strasbourg battle to gain access to Foreign Intelligence Service files. See: Saure v Germany. https://bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/eu/cases/ECHR/2022/929.html ‘Wide margin of appreciation not overstepped.’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1590460940473942016
Style Tips. Economist: ‘Trooper, trouper. An old trooper is an old cavalry soldier (supposedly good at swearing), old private soldier in tank regiment, or old mounted policeman. An old trouper is an old member of a theatrical company, or perhaps a good sort.’ https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1590462570254995459
Mail Online reports: ‘Mr Swingometer dies at 98: Tributes pour in for David Butler – BBC’s first ever voting guru who provided expert analysis for every General Election from 1950 until 2010.’ See: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11407275/Tributes-pour-David-Butler-BBCs-Swingometer-voting-guru.html
Michael Hardware President of Chartered Institute of Journalists- ‘This is disgraceful: arresting national press card holding journalists is never justified. I want these police forces to describe the ‘justification’. We have a free press, this is not a police state!’ See: https://twitter.com/MichaelHardware/status/1590356857469927432 and https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1590328001505685505
Official @CIoJournalist Media Release: ‘Institute condemns arrest of journalists covering JSO protests’ See: https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1590440364720427010/photo/1
Mail Online update: “‘An arrest would not have been necessary’: Hertfordshire Police in humiliating climbdown after officers sparked outrage by arresting LBC reporter and holding her in custody for 5 hours for covering Just Stop Oil protest.’ See: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11407377/Outrage-police-arrest-reporters-photographers-reporting-M25-chaos.html
Associated Press and Guardian report: ‘Unseen Kristallnacht photos published 84 years after Nazi pogrom. Images released by Israeli Holocaust memorial show Hitler’s regime clearly orchestrating 1938 atrocity.’ See: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/09/unseen-kristallnacht-photos-published-84-years-after-nazi-pogrom
North American Newspapers Wednesday 9th November 2022
‘A journalist covering Just Stop Oil protests on the M25 has claimed he was arrested along with a photographer and held for 13 hours in a police station.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6995815572647071745?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1589927340162916352
‘South African Metro FM presenter Pearl Shongwe was found dead in her home in Johannesburg at the age of 35.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6995836122303995905?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/celeb-news/breaking-who-was-pearl-shongwe-late-newsreader-8-november-2022/
BBC in for harsh regulatory criticism when they issued fulsome apology for years of “unacceptable” handling of complaints about anti-Israel bias in Arabic output. More from Ofcom.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6995868819680288768?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://www.thejc.com/news/news/ofcom-slams-bbcs-serious-editorial-failures-over-chanukah-bus-attack-reporting-pbXhPhADoKsklx40j4Nkp
‘The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has expelled French journalist Sonia Rolley after declining to grant her accreditation.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6996082485994340352?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-expels-reuters-reporter-2022-11-08/
French Newspapers Wednesday 9th November 2022
‘Wannabe journalist Dorothy Lawrence padded her shoulders, wore a corset ..before using false papers to get to frontline in France to expose conditions of British soldiers.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6996224195059712000?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/untold-story-heroine-journalist-dressed-28452640
‘Kirill Stremousov, the public face of the Russian occupation of Ukraine’s Kherson region, has died in a car accident, according to the collaborationist government there.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6996226534650822656?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63572668
‘Hertfordshire Constabulary Chief Charlie Hall said there would be an investigation into arrests of journalists covering climate protests.’ See: https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6996133383122644993?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop & https://www.herts.police.uk/news/hertfordshire/news/2022/november/statement-regarding-arrests-made-yesterday
Lucy Cavendish writes for Daily Mail and Mail Online: ‘I’ve been cancelled in my own home… by my four YIP children who insist all my opinions are offensive!’ See: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11408939/Cancelled-home-four-children-insist-opinions-offensive.html
Mail Online reports: ‘Police commissioner apologises for arrest of LBC reporter Charlotte Lynch at Just Stop Oil protest – then blames media for covering the eco-zealots’ demos.’ See: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11411765/Police-commissioner-apologises-arrest-LBC-reporter-Charlotte-Lynch-Just-Stop-Oil-protest.html
