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​- Stéphane Charbonnier, August 21, 1967 - January 7, 2015

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SubScribe 


The SubScribe website was set up in a fit of over-ambition in 2013, and many posts from the Blogger site copied over. It was mothballed when reality dawned in 2015, but resurrected in 2016 to monitor the last month of the referendum campaign.
Now it is revived again to monitor the 2019 general election.

Old posts on other journalistic issues can be found on the old blog, here.

General election 2019

November 13, 2019
It's difficult to set a starting point for this audit. The election campaign could be said to have started when Theresa May announced her resignation, as Conservative rivals spelt out their vision for the country. It surely got underway the moment Boris Johnson was elected leader: after just a couple of days in Westminster, he spent his summer touring the country offering to spend billions on police, the NHS, schools, high streets and much more. Then there was the semi-official start when MPs voted to go to the country, and finally the campaign proper began when Johnson went to the Palace and Parliament was dissolved.
For the purposes of this audit - given that I'm a one-woman band - that day, November 6 - will be the starting point.
I shall collate election coverage for national daily newspaper print editions, with the exception of the Financial Times, the Daily Star and Morning Star. Since the Independent is now online only, it is excluded, but it produces a "front page" every day and that may be included at the top of this home page. So, too, will any noteworthy Scottish or regional front pages, and possibly the Evening Standard. The absence of the Morning Star on any given day has no political relevance. It is just not always available.
Each newspaper's coverage will be logged, day by day,  without comment on its designated SubScribe page, which you can reach via the General Election 2019 tab at the top left of this page. Analysis will appear separately, but will also be accessible using that tab. At this stage, I shall be monitoring pro and anti headlines relating to the two main parties and their leaders, coverage of other parties, leaders and opeds,and use of pictures. This will need fine tuning as the campaign progresses.
​Thank you for your interest.

The Brexit audit

The Sun
Daily Express
Daily Mirror
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An eye on how the papers reported the referendum campaign and the aftermath.

Immigration


Immigration proved to be the driving issue of the Brexit campaign, helped by our national newspapers, which led on the subject and related matters on 277 occasions last year. More than half of those lead stories appeared in the Express and the Mail, with the Sun and Telegraph a distant joint third on 23 apiece. Now SubScribe has looked inside the whitetops to examine the true scale of the coverage. It's a pretty depressing read. 
Immigration: a year in the whitetops


Editor's blog


Floods expose metropolitan thinking (again)

Flood alerts
Imaginary flood alerts
Monday 28 December The map on the left shows flood alerts in place on Sunday. They cover most of England and all of Wales. A big story then? Yes, it dominated most front pages and everyone gave it at least one spread inside. But was that enough? Supposing the band of trouble moved to the east a bit, as in the second map (with the dodgy photoshopping)? What more would there have been to say?
Quite a lot.
Editor's blog: Apocalypse now 

Phone hacking


Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan tweeted that he intended to get spectacularly drunk to celebrate the end of the hacking inquiry
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After four and a half years, countless police hours and the expenditure of more than £40m, the curtain has been pulled down on the phone hacking saga.
The leader columns were sanctimonious - of course listening to people's private conversations was reprehensible, but the response was a waste of public money and an excuse for the Establishment to stamp on the free Press. 
Hacked Off was disappointed. The victims' lawyers want a judicial review of the DPP's  decision.
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So far, so predictable.
And what of those of us who love our trade? We who have been watching in bewilderment and dismay as the drama has played out? Should we feel relief that it's all over, glad that no more journalists will be put on trial at the Old Bailey?
Probably. So why don't I? Why do I feel uncomfortable? 
Because justice has been the loser in this whole sorry story.

Editor's blog: A nagging sense of injustice

SubScribe commentary


A great night for print journalism

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How small teams of elves toiled through the night for their shoemaker bosses: SubScribe looks at the way papers evolved from the moment the news of the Paris attacks broke shortly before 10pm until the final slips were plated up five hours later. Which changed most and which least, which turned a football match to its advantage to steal a march on its rivals, how did the online teams fare  - and, in an era when print is supposedly dead and social media rules, was it all worth it? 
SubScribe: Paris terror attacks

Editor's blog


Mercury nominees
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Last year 43 million people went to a professional football match. No wonder so much newsprint is devoted to the sport. 
Last year 49 million people went to the 16 national museums and galleries, 157.5 million went to the cinema. More than 300 million books and 100 million albums were sold. Nearly 15 billion - yes billion - songs were streamed over the internet.
Yet while the Telegraph devoted 108 pages to sport from Monday to Friday last week, the arts merited only 10 heavily-added pages. They included the Booker Prize presentation and a review of The Apprentice, but there was no room at all for the Mercury Prize nominations
- Why is arts coverage so lamentable?

The SubScribe commentary


Does anyone believe a word we say?

Wendy Cope
She'll urge you to confide. Resist.
Be careful, courteous, and cool.
Never trust a journalist.
'We're off the record,' she'll insist.
If you believe her, you're a fool.
She'll urge you to confide. Resist.
Should you tell her who you've kissed,
You'll see it all in print, and you'll
Never trust a journalist...

So writes the poet Wendy Cope in How to Deal with the Press. It seems the public agrees with her. Successive surveys find that people rank journalists down in the pits with politicians and estate agents when it comes to trustworthiness. 
People still vote, still buy and sell houses, and still - if in diminishing numbers - read newspapers. So does it matter?
SubScribe: A question of trust

News judgment


Getting it wrong on murder over breakfast

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If it was all right for the New York Times to publish Eddie Adams's Vietnam photograph in 1969, then it must follow that it was all right for our newspapers to put yesterday's murder of Alison Parker on their front pages?
The shooting of Parker and her cameraman Adam Ward while they were broadcasting live on breakfast television was a big news story. Bigger, you might say, than the summary execution of the leader of an enemy death squad in a warzone. Bad things happen in war, but local TV crews tend not to lose their lives on routine assignments. And viewers chewing on waffles and muffins don't expect to see their favourite presenters murdered in the middle of an interview about tourism. 

But was that justification for the saturation coverage of the shootings in this morning's British newspapers? 

- Editor's blog: Murder on camera
Oped: What other commentators had to say


Journalism in the firing line


When death rides in on a motorbike

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Je suis Charlie
Tuesday 14 July, 2015 Sometimes the murder of a journalist shocks people to such an extent that they take to the streets to protest - as with Abdel Karim al-Khewani in Yemen and the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in France. Sometimes, as with the Isis victims in their orange jumpsuits, the killings are filmed and used as propaganda.
Often, however, the killing goes unremarked and uninvestigated. A couple of men ride up on a motorbike and fire a few shots at the target as he or she is leaving the office, arriving home or simply waiting at a bus stop - summary retribution for exposing a corrupt politician or crossing a criminal.
In the first half of this year, sixty media workers around the world were killed while doing their jobs. 
At the same time, dozens are being kept in prisons, in many cases without charge, because authorities do not care for what they have written.
The lone gunman in Guatemala, the Jihadists in Syria and the jailers in Egypt and China have one thing in common: a determination to silence dissenters. For these murderers and oppressors all recognise what we in the West are apt to forget: the importance of the freedom to tell inconvenient truths. 
Editor's blog: Death and dishonour

Journalism on trial


Coulson perjury case doomed from the start

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It's one thing for barrack-room lawyers (and even journalists) to stroke their beards and pronounce on the basis of surmise and assumption, but the prosecutors in Scotland are supposed to be the real thing. They are paid to know the law. 
Yet it was almost as though they couldn't bear to be left out of the feeding frenzy that followed the hacking scandal. This really was a shameful waste of public money and manpower.
Editor's blog: Doomed from the start
SubScribe: The tally

Are we embarrassed to look in the mirror?

Sadie Frost
Sadie Frost walked away from court with more than £200,000 compensation for four years of living under constant surveillance, including having her phone hacked at least twice a day every day. How did our papers report the judgment? 
Anthony France walked away from court knowing that he might become the first journalist to go to jail for paying a policeman for stories. When his Sun colleagues were cleared of similar charges and when the Crown Prosecution Service retreated from its Operation Elveden cases the papers' tone was triumphant. How did they report the France case?
The answer to both questions - as it usually is when it comes to reporting our industry -  is "not very well". What went wrong this time? 


Pictures and spreads


How to cover a massacre: a lesson from the Daily Star
Daily Star
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It sounds cynical, but five dead Britons are not enough to drive the puffs from their home at the top of the front page. Ten might have been;  "at least fifteen" certainly would. This is why the Star shines today. Hallelujah!
News reclaims page one 

Editors' farewells


No fanfare or speeches, just Roger and out

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The departure of Alan Rusbridger after twenty years in charge of the Guardian could hardly have escaped anyone's attention. But he was not the only distinguished former Scott Trust editor to leave the stage on Friday. Roger Alton, former Observer and Independent editor and latterly executive editor of the Times, slipped quietly out of the Baby Shard with an email promising non-existent free tickets to the Ashes and rugby world cup. 
- Gameoldgirl's Notebook: Profanasaurus Rog

Press freedom


Slaughter, surveillance and censorship

CPJ book
Kidnapping and murder by terrorists, arrest and imprisonment by state police, surveillance and censorship by governments. From the warzones of the Middle East, across Africa and Asia to the democracies of America, Australia and Europe, journalists are coming under attack as the advance of technology to share information is matched by the march of those who would suppress it.
The Isis beheadings and the Charlie Hebdo murders make international headlines, but what of the reporters in Greece, Paraguay, Pakistan shot for trying to do their jobs? We campaigned for the release of Australian Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera colleagues, but what of the other journalists imprisoned for trying to report the news?
The Committee for the Protection of Journalists in New York today publishes its annual assessment of threats to the Press, along with its list of the ten most censored countries. For excerpts from the book and details of how to buy a copy, please click here

UK newspapers: an industry under siege

  • We are unlikely to be shot on the school run or imprisoned for writing stories that displease the Government, but journalists in Britain have plenty to be worried about. The police, PRs, politicians, pressure groups and even publishers are all making life more difficult. SubScribe was honoured to be invited to contribute to the CPJ's annual book on attacks on the Press.
Here is an updated version of the chapter on the situation in the UK.

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