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A journalist today accused Twitter of suspending users for failing to tow the government line on Covid after she was locked out of her account for a post condemning the lockdown. Daily Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson was responding to a BBC article about the risk of coronavirus spreading in universities when she tweeted that she … Read more
Sir Harold Evans, the crusading editor frequently described as Fleet Street’s greatest ever newspaper man, had died aged 92. His 70-year career saw him expose wrongdoing around the world, perhaps the most famous shining a light on the plight of hundreds of British thalidomide children to finally hold drugs companies responsible to account. Sir Harold’s … Read more
Trump says it was a ‘beautiful thing’ when MSNBC journalist Ali Velshi was struck by a rubber bullet during a George Floyd protest in Minnesota On May 30, reporter Ali Velshi was covering protest when he was injured by cops The MSNBC journalist was struck in the knee by a rubber bullet in Minneapolis On … Read more
A BBC World News journalist being probed by the Corporation for allegedly trolling Jewish presenter Emma Barnett anonymously on Twitter is now accused of attacking critics of Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism campaigners under his own name. Nimesh Thaker is already under investigation after the Jewish Chronicle published images which they claim show that he had … Read more
The BBC has launched an urgent probe into one of its senior World News journalists who allegedly used an anonymous social media account to attack Jewish presenter Emma Barnett after she told of the impact of anti-Semitism on her family. Nimesh Thaker is accused of using a Twitter account under the pseudonym Not That Bothered to … Read more
An Australian journalist who kept a diary of the coronavirus pandemic has been arrested in China with no reasons given. Cheng Lei, an English-language presenter with the state-owned China Global Television Network since 2012, wrote withering Facebook posts about the Communist Party. The Beijing-based business journalist, who studied in Brisbane and Melbourne, mocked the earlier lockdown … Read more
It’s Titchmarsh vs Marr! Gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh will go head-to-head with veteran journalist Andrew Marr for Sunday morning TV crown Andrew Marr’s programme interviewing political heavyweights airs at 9am Mr Titchmarsh will present Love Your Weekend on ITV at 9.25am as it airs Mr Titchmarsh’s two-hour show is being compared with the BBC’s Countryfile … Read more
BBC journalist Carrie Gracie leaves corporation after 33 years saying she is proud to have ‘fought for a fair workplace’ after she resigned as China editor in protest at pay inequalities Gracie said she felt it was ‘time to do something new’ after long time at the BBC She became a figurehead for women when … Read more
Malta’s former PM Joseph Muscat is formally questioned by cops for the first time over murder of anti-corruption journalist Former MP Joseph Muscat was questioned by Maltese police this afternoon Investigation is based on testimony given to police by suspected mastermind in the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Galizia, Yorgen Fenech Muscat resigned after it … Read more
The first black journalist on British television says she’s ‘glad’ she was the victim of racism because she believes it has helped future generations. Barbara Blake Hannah, 79, made her television debut in 1968, however was let go from her job at Thames TV after bosses refused to renew her contract, and justified it with appalling racist … Read more