Watch out Roy – The Sun is not your friend
So The Sun thinks it's fine to poke fun at what it calls Roy Hodgson's "speech impediment." Hence today's front page with every R replaced by a W (Euwos, Ukwaine, Fwance).Of course, it has done the same down the years with Jonathan Ross. And in Hodgson...
Roy Hodgson’s the boy – but papers are already putting the boot in
"A good man is just about to take on the Impossible Job." That was the conclusion of the Daily Telegraph's Henry Winter in writing about the Football Association's decision to offer the England football manager's job to Roy Hodgson.The reason was made ...
Red-top trio think alike by splashing on a sordid front page story
As Lord Justice Leveson goes off for his Easter break he might like to contemplate the nature of these three depressing red-top front pages today.Clearly, the editors of The Sun, Daily Mirror and Daily Star believe that a footballer's relationship with...
Is it foolish for football reporters to reveal their club allegiance?
One of the more amusing April fool's day jokes, published yesterday by allmedia.Scotland, claimed that football reporters working for BBC Scotland would be required to reveal their club allegiance to viewers during their broadcasts.It was, said the pos...
Walliams charms Indy readers as the paper’s guest editor
I have often made clear my dislike of guest editors for newspapers. With that prejudice in mind, what should we make of today's editing effort by David Walliams at The Independent?Unsurprisingly, the morning radio comment centred on the fact that Walli...
Hacking book: how the PCC failed many victims of newspaper abuse
Today's extract from The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial* is taken from a chapter written by Mike Jempson and Wayne Powell entitled "Blame not the mobile phone, 'twas ever thus."They begin with a history of press regulation, which was reluct...
Good investigative journalism works best without paying sources
Is it essential to pay public officials - police officers, prison warders, civil servants and nurses - or members of the military to obtain stories?Would investigative journalism as we know it wither away if such payments were outlawed?Andrew Jennings,...
Sun on Sunday heat builds amid a swirl of rumours
Day by day we learn a little more about the seventh-day Sun. Today, The Sun has devoted a spread to boosting its new issue, with a big plug for the fact that both the Saturday and Sunday papers will cost 50p each.Trinity Mirror (TM) executives were som...
BRIC countries lead advertising growth
Russia and India will record the strongest growth in advertising spend over the coming year, according to the latest Warc international ad forecast.It predicts that Russia will increase expenditure by 16.5%, followed by India (14.0%), China (11.5%) and...
The football writer who can’t stop writing – even in hospital
"A funny thing happened to me on the way to this column - I had a heart attack". That's the opening line to the latest piece by my good friend Norman Giller, the veteran sports journalist who has never missed a deadline. His article, on the Sports Jour...
STV agrees surprise deal with Rangers
Scotland's main ITV channel, STV, has agreed to go into partnership with one of Glasgow's football teams, Rangers.The club announced the deal on its website yesterday, stating that they "are working together to capitalise on commercial and brand opport...
How the papers reported Chelsea’s football victory