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Published in: openDemocracyUKGeorge Osborne’s Evening Standard under fire (again) over lucrative Uber dealExclusive: Politicians call on UK advertising watchdog to investigate paid-for content dressed up as news at...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOpinion: George Osborne’s real ‘Future London’ is a crass exercise that readers won’t swallowSomeone needs to tell Osborne that Londoners are not mugs. The rebrand of his controversial deal with Uber, Google...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGeorge Osborne’s Evening Standard launches delayed ‘money-can’t-buy’ campaign – with more controversial partnersPrivate healthcare firm and a French conglomerate with a record of lawsuits against media join Uber, Google and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGeorge Osborne’s Evening Standard delays controversial Uber, Google dealIn the wake of ‘cash for column inches’ scandal and calls for Osborne to resign, newspaper denies that £3 million...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOsborne’s Evening Standard ‘cash for column inches’ denials ‘do not stack up’ – says Caroline LucasGreen Party leader calls on London paper to ‘come clean’ about its hidden commercial agendas – citing another...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGeorge Osborne’s London Evening Standard sells its editorial independence to Uber, Google and others – for £3 millionExclusive: Newspaper promised six commercial giants “money-can’t-buy” news coverage in a lucrative deal, leaving...
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Published in: HomeThe secrets of 'Black Ops' advertising. Who is paying for our news?"I think the public would resent knowing they are being tricked. So best not to always tell them."
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Published in: HomeHow a GM giant ‘bought control’ of what millions of Londoners readThe Evening Standard’s lucrative deal with Swiss chemical giant Syngenta shows how commercial giants pay for news –...
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Published in: HomePerché stiamo lanciando openMediaDimenticatevi ‘notizie false’. I grossi capitali stanno distorcendo la libertà di stampa in modo molto più sinistro...
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Published in: HomeThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: the new commercial masters of the ‘branded’ newsroomopenMedia pan-European survey throws up an early warning for the next generation of journalists.
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Published in: HomeWhy we're launching openMediaForget fake news. Money can distort media far more disturbingly – through advertorials, and through buying silence....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe struggle for survival – what’s next for Syrian journalism?Media outlets, whether state-sponsored or opposition, often seek to send a specific message to a party through their...
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Published in: HomeBought and paid for – how Romania’s media is pressured by corporate and political mastersJournalists in Romania failing to conform to pressure from private companies and advertisers face intimidation and...
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Published in: HomeHow human rights are freeing journalists in Turkey – a prison for members of the pressThough some from Turkey's independent newspaper Cumhuriyet are still being detained, human rights mechanisms are...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe murder of Manuel Buendía, journalistWhat sort of a country is it that does not defend its journalists, leaves them alone on the front lines, and cannot,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTheresa May, the press and a lesson from historyIf Theresa May is brave enough to stand up to the press, she will reap the rewards.
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Published in: HomeThe Independent. In the end, it wasn't. What next?James Cusick, former political correspondent for The Independent, spent five months investigating why other...
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Published in: ourBeebThe real Whittingdale scandal: a cover up by the UK pressI spent five months with another senior journalist at the Independent newspaper investigating why other papers had...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe photojournalist who ‘damaged Egyptian national unity’Shawkan, an Egyptian photojournalist, has had his detention extended yet again. His camera has been as cold as the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTurkey: media crackdown amid escalating violenceAt the very moment that critical independent media are needed most in Turkey, we are witnessing a renewed crackdown...
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