Interviews
When self-proclaimed “porn baron” Paul Baxendale-Walker bought lads’ magazine Loaded last year it was reasonably assumed the title might be taken a step down market.
Torin Douglas is bowing out as after 24 years as BBC media correspondent next month and he told Press Gazette that he leaves the corporation at a time when morale is low.
Four journalism students from Northampton University secured the first interview with the BBC's Eddie Mair since his controversial interview with London Mayor Boris Johnson on Sunday.
David Hencke saw off competition from major news organisations to win Political Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for fledgling news website exaro. The judges described his revelations over widespread Whitehall tax avoidance as a “major scandal”.
Like many great stories, it started with a whistleblower.
When David Hencke took voluntary redundancy from The Guardian in 2009 he imagined he would be retired by now.
But four years on, having joined investigative website Exaro News, his journalism career has a new lease of life.
Last week Guardian journalist Nick Davies came top in Press Gazette’s list of UK investigative journalists. Here we publish the second part of an interview with one of the UK’s most famous – and controversial – journalists.
Few journalists divide opinion like Nick Davies. The investigative journalists who voted him the top UK investigative reporter variously described him as “a major force”, “head and shoulders above the rest of us” and “extraordinarily dogged”.
Earlier this month the true horror of the Jimmy Savile story was finally brought into the open when police revealed that the former DJ may have committed 214 sex crimes, including 34 rapes.
Two words come up time and again when City AM editor Allister Heath is asked to talk about the newspaper’s strategy over the past four years: ‘discipline’ and ‘prudence’.
Martin Samuel was in New York, poised to cover Andy Murray’s historic US Open victory, when he was told he had been voted as the best sports journalist in Press Gazette’s top 50 list. Three days earlier, he had been in Moldova to watch England in a World Cup qualifier.
Last week Press Gazette revealed that The Sun was the UK's second most popular publication on Facebook with more than 600,000 'likes'. Unusually for a national newspaper, The Sun has a far bigger following on Facebook that it does on Twitter (169,199).
Editor-in-chief of Sport magazine Simon Caney has carved out a profitable niche for the free mid-market title. Earlier this year Dominic Ponsford found out how you attract male readers with a sport-focused publication, build up a brand in a difficult climate and come back from the brink of disaster.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency yesterday accused Lance Armstrong of being the ringleader of the “most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen”. Here, Sunday Times sports reporter David Walsh talks to Press Gazette about his relentless pursuit of the shamed cyclist.
The Wirral Globe has won plaudits for its campaigns and has a fast-growing website.
I feel sorry for journalists today. They sit at their desks like battery hens, sipping Evian water and eating half-frozen sandwiches from the vending machine.
Many journalists have assured Lord Justice Leveson that they rarely wine and dine contacts and that they definitely never get police officers drunk. Here, former Take a Break editor John Dale argues that alcohol is a weapon which journalists should wield to get to the truth – after a very long lunch with former chief investigator of the News of the World Noel Botham.
During the late 1990s, Ed Needham led FHM through what is now seen as the high-water mark of men’s magazine sales in the UK.
Martin Daubney was editor of Lads' mag Loaded from 2003-2010, and is now a contributor to The Sun and the Daily Mail
Best boss
Mike Glover was editor of the Bradford Telegraph & Argus and Yorkshire on Sunday, editor-in-chief of York & County Press, and editor/publisher of The Westmorland Gazette.
Ask Jim Gray's colleagues to describe him and they're likely come out with words like 'anarchist", 'outsider'and 'anti-establishment".
