Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Paul Lashmar is a Senior Lecturer and leads Journalism at the University of Sussex and he is also an investigative journalist and research academic. He has been on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. He has also produced a number of TV programmes for BBC’s Timewatch and Channel 4’s Dispatches. Paul covered the ‘War on Terror’ for the Independent on Sunday from 2001-2007. His profile is here.
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Published in: ourBeebTragedies of the fourth estate
The recent crises must be understood in light of systemic pressures on the BBC's resources and the wider struggle to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Future of Investigative Journalism: reasons to be cheerfulThe general consensus is that investigative journalism is in decline. Yet the future looks hopeful, with the rise of...