"Trans coverage is a microcosm of press behaviour." Here's Helen Belcher of Trans Media Watch, talking about transsexual life and death in the press. … [Read more...]
Our Media, Not Theirs: report from the Media Reform rally, 17 June
This post is reproduced, with kind permission, from the website of the National Union of Journalists. It does not represent our views, but does offer a fair summary of the rally that night. As the explosive events in Turkey played out on news networks and Twitter around the world, and protesters were being attacked in Taksim Square by the police, the Turkish national news … [Read more...]
Lucy Meadows coroner rules press played a part in her suicide
It is rare that members of the press are directly confronted with the results of their reporting decisions. But at an inquest on Tuesday the coroner investigating what can now be unambiguously termed the suicide of Lucy Meadows turned to the assembled reporters and said: "shame on you". Lucy Meadows was a teacher who took her own life in March this year after what the … [Read more...]