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Axegrinder: £50 for a story and pic in the print edition of The Times...Twitter UK boss ducks libel questions...Daily Mail sees no bullying at BBC
By Axegrinder 17 May 9:21
£50 for Times contribution? ‘I would be ashamed’
How Grazia beat the press pack to Obama's state dinner
By Axegrinder 13 May 17:22
As the UK press descend on Washington for the Prime Minister's visit to the White House, Axegrinder wonders whether they have learnt their lessons from last year.
Axegrinder: Newspaper reporting now worse than being a janitor...Torin recalls a particularly middle class revolt at the BBC
By Axegrinder 02 May 9:45
It’s rather sweet really that an office romance has come out of the Leveson Inquiry.
Axegrinder: How Observer wrongly credited Panorama journalist with breaking Savile story; surprise county court exclusion; Thatcher memories
By Axegrinder 19 April 9:24

How Axegrinder broke Watergate

Panorama reporter Shelley Jofre was landed in hot water by The Observer just before Christmas when it interviewed her and published the following Tweet:

Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2010? David Wooding publishes the News of the World's prepared 16-page supplement
By Axegrinder 18 April 9:04
Ex-News of the World journalist David Wooding has published his former paper’s prepared Margaret Thatcher pull-out on his blog.
Axegrinder: Misnomer in Doncaster...Fleet Street poem...Canadian libel by juxtaposition...Bexley letters page invaded by aliens
By Axegrinder 11 April 9:40

Misnomer put to bed in Doncaster

Axegrinder: Bell declines opportunity to hit back at Mail; Eye apology; trade titles slip through regulation net; Guardian's theft warning
By Axegrinder 02 April 10:49
Sir David Bell turns down chance to hit back at Daily Mail Axegrinder attended the annual Stationers’ Company lecture by Sir David Bell last week hoping that the Media Standards Trust founder might take the opportunity to hit back at the Daily Mail.
Axegrinder: Trevor Kavanagh's double standards?; Thanks, Private Frazer; Priceless Daily Mail apology; Not work experience
By Axegrinder 26 March 9:10
When it comes to the criminal justice system do red-top journalists have one set of rules when it comes to speaking out about the arrest of Fleet Street colleagues and another set for everyone else?
Axegrinder: Do BBC-bashing newspapers have their own gagging clauses? That's a secret
By Axegrinder 18 March 12:31

News that 20 former BBC staff claiming sexual harassment had spoken out to The Sunday Times about the gagging clauses they had been asked to sign prompted a wave of BBC-bashing across Fleet Street.

Rebekah Brooks. Credit: Reuters
Wade and Harding got ‘bollocking’ for turning down MPs' expenses; Guardian gets another hyding
By Axegrinder 06 March 15:26

Wade and Harding got ‘bollocking’ for ignoring expenses

In 2009 News International must have felt like the record company that turned down the Beatles when it passed up on the MPs’ expenses story.

The end of news?; When is a British reporter not a British reporter?; Mums angered by Daily Mail invasion
By Axegrinder 28 February 9:33
The end of news?; When is a British reporter not a British reporter?; Mums angered by Daily Mail invasion
'Gosh! My head is spinning': Nick Clegg questioned by Channel 4's Cathy Newman
By Axegrinder 27 February 12:34
'Gosh! My head is spinning': Nick Clegg questioned by C4 News reporter Cathy Newman
Financial problems? No, FT has money floating around; Cloak and Dacre; Prehistoric humility for local reporter
By Axegrinder 21 February 14:17
Financial problems? No, FT has money floating around
Phrasebook for what journalists really mean when they are talking to PRs
By Axegrinder 19 February 9:33

PR company 10 Yetis today brought out its own guide to what journalists really mean when they fob PRs off.

It got Axegrinder thinking about some of his own suggestions for their lighthearted phrasebook.

How about?

Collymore: You’re all non-sensiclistic snobs, you are!
By Axegrinder 14 February 11:30
Collymore: You’re all non-sensiclistic snobs, you are!
Why Cudlipp wasn't perfect; 50s and 60s grass is always greener; Potty for Bradford
By Axegrinder 07 February 10:55
Why Cudlipp wasn't perfect; 50s and 60s grass is always greener; Potty for Bradford
Axegrinder apology special: Have I got News for You, the Daily Mail, Time and Northern & Shell
By Axegrinder 05 February 9:45

Has Axegrinder Got an Apology for You

TechCrunch offers rival journalists the chance to write about anything 'prohibited' on CNet
By Axegrinder 29 January 13:54
Axegrinder is pleased to see US tecnology website TechCrunch offering some compassion to rival journalists from CNet.
And the Daily Star’s final tally of Big Bro splashes for 2012 is...; The Polar Express; Axegrinder joins the Order of the Occult Hand
By Axegrinder 25 January 9:32
And the Daily Star’s final tally of Big Bro splash for 2012 is...; The Polar Express; Axegrinder joins the Order of the Occult Hand
Was Channel 4 News effort the worst Gangnam Style parody of 2012?
By Axegrinder 22 January 12:06
Was this the most cringeworthy Gangnam Style parody of 2012? Axegrinder wants to know if readers have a suggestion that can beat Cathy Newman's effort of 20 December.

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