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The Schedule

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This is a list of most of the posts to be found around this site and its archive sister SubScribe2014, and the old SubScribe blog arranged by subject matter. 

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The Press

Press freedom
Attacks on the Press: The threats to British journalism 
Death and dishonour: Journalists who died trying to expose the truth
Whistle-blowers: Newspapers love them - unless they're on the staff

RIPA: How law is being misused to uncover sources 
If terrorists must not win, why is the State attacking our freedom?
Blog posts:
Hacked Off leading light lines up against RIPA
Commissioner is protecting sources, not journalists
Bouquets and brickbats: Dominic Ponsford's RIPA campaign
Triumph and triumphalism: who deserves the credit over law change?
It's a bit late to start squealing when the chance to act has passed
Guest blog: Tim Crook says attack on sources undermines democracy
Guest blog: Tim Crook says press freedom is dead in the water

Regulation
Leveson an expensive hiding to nothing
History and hysteria over the royal charter
Parliament, Hacked Off and self-regulation
How regulators work - or not - in other walks of life
From Milly to Moses, how we got to where we are now

Journalists and the law

The tally: update on all the journalists put on trial since the NoW scandal 

Journalists in the dock: news updates on Elveden court cases
Commentary: Cleared quartet had a torrid time, but this wasn't torture
Commentary: Elveden court reporting gives our enemies ammunition

Phone hacking: police investigations and the Mirror damages claims
Commentary: How papers covered the Mirror damages judgment
The Brooks-Coulson trial: 19 pages of reports, analysis and background

Blog posts: 
Phone hacking and a nagging sense of injustice
Why Murdoch won't cough up for Anthony France
Coulson perjury trial was doomed from the start
Will News UK stand by Anthony France? 
Trials and tribulations a snapshot from January 2015
Are we seeing justice for journalists?
Scandals engulf police and politicians, yet journalists are the villains
If just looking at stolen material is a crime, what about MPs' expenses?

News judgment
Murder on camera: Press gets it wrong on Virginia shootings
Sun was right to print Queen's "Nazi salute"...
and Times was wrong to take down Nick Cave interview story 
How famous do you have to be to get your name in the splash head?
Four killed in car crash isn't a national newspaper splash
Why Tesco profits scandal matters
Manchester kennel fire and the power of local media
Lottery winners separate...and find new love

Advertising
Peter Oborne quits Telegraph
Guest blog: Peter Oborne on why he resigned
The Telegraph fights back
Blurred lines in the native advertising newsroom
A paper that loses its readers' trust loses everything
A layman's guide to advertising v editorial
Ads should not be allowed to taint the news message
Jessica Ennis-Hill is on the front - but the passing reader won't see her

The industry
Does it matter if people don't trust journalists?
Newspapers love whistle-blowers - unless they are members of staff
Journalism should not be for the elite 
Out of print? Is there a future for newspapers?
Why is it inevitable that change always means job cuts?
Job cuts and job ads, a tale of two newspapers
Another sad week at The Times
Hello and goodbye to Wapping
Glasgow helicopter crash and the night of the citizen journalist
Times sacks its photographers
Another Sunday editor bites the dust
Express sports desk jobs go
Big changes at three national sports desks
Bloodshed at the Telegraph
Four into three won't go at the Mirror

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Politics

Jeremy Corbyn and the National Anthem

General election, 2015
Partisan coverage gives enemies of the Press more ammunition
Murdoch and Milifandom
Justine's fury and the definition of a cad
The Telegraph repeats its front-page mistake
How the papers covered the manifestos - or didn't
Oh for the old days of news on the front, opinion inside 

The Conservatives 
Brooks Newmark and a malicious sting
Style Counsel on the dangers of older men and young women
A breakfast of humble pie
Cameron's tax cut numbers crunched
Cameron's reshuffle
Esther McVey's sit-in
Cameron's holidays

The European election audit
How did the Press measure up covering the local and European elections? 

• The Express
• The Guardian
• The Independent
• The Mail
• The Mirror
• The Sun
• The Telegraph
• The Times

Maria Miller's Tale
The exchange of letters, reaction, the IPSA judgment, the 32-second apology,  the "Leveson" telephone call 

• Media commentary
• Editor's blog

The Mail and the 'apologists for paedophiles'
Forty years on: Harman, Hewitt and the paedophiles
Hattie capitulates and the bully wins
Hewitt apologises and the Sun pitches in

Education
Please stop moaning about girls in strappy tops
Women are in trouble - for wanting to go to university
Grammar schools are not a middle-class preserve
A little knowledge: why so many children are "cleverer than Einstein"

Immigration
Katie Hopkins made us cringe, but she also made us think
Too many scare stories and too few facts
A year of trying to keep those foreigners out of our country
The Express and immigration - time for some maths lessons
A bear called Paddington sends a political message

First World War 
Spare us the enforced ersatz emotion
Poppymania
Poppies, a real family and the importance of public art
Last post for the poppies

Scottish referendum
Time for the English papers to wake up
Referendum miscellany
The Queen speaks
The final editions

Austerity
A blue-rinse budget for the older voter
Food banks

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Crime

Sex abuse
Rotherham scandal wasn't about political correctness, it was about complacency and incompetence
Dave Lee Travis may have been a groper, but he doesn't fit the celebrity sex pest pattern
The teenage "predator" and the "paedophile"

Murder at Crufts
A deadly tale of red setters and red herrings
Dog show off the hook

Harry Roberts
A look back at the Shepherd's Bush police murders of 1966 

Lee Rigby
Facebook wasn't to blame for the  soldier's death

Alice Gross
When murder is the expected outcome

Rolf Harris
Sentencing on a good day to bury bad news about Andy Coulson

Maxine Carr
We should celebrate not curse her wedding

Ann Maguire
It's all over the web, so do we need to protect teenage suspect's identity?

Stephen Lawrence
Doreen Lawrence and Theresa May agree: We still can't trust the police

Jill Dando
Was her death linked to that of a Serbian journalist - and if so, is it news?

Madeleine McCann
Missing - an opportunity to help others
Yes of course we'd love to find her, but that doesn't mean snatching other children from their families
That Crimewatch special with all the new information? You can sum it up as "She's still missing"

Michael Le Vell
All right, 'not guilty' isn't the same as being proved innocent, but it's the best system we've got
You may not like what was said in court, but that's what we must report - not what "should" have been said
 
William Roache
It's still the best system we've got

Mick Philpott
This shameless man is a criminal, not a product of the welfare state

The death penalty
From Archbishop Latimer to Saddam: 500 years of botched executions

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Celebrities

Nick Cave
Times story was flawed, but there was no need to take it down
He's a 'legend', but not enough of a household name for splash head

Angelina Jolie and George Clooney
Are we playing fair with celebrities?
Clooney v the Mail

Robin Williams
Why do journalists persist in ignoring suicide reporting guidelines?

L'Wren Scott and Mick Jagger
How much more intrusive is a pap shot of a rock star than a photograph of disaster victims' grieving relatives?

Philip Seymour Hoffman
The art of Sunday editing
Alain de Botton promotes his book  on the back of actor's death

Wendi Deng
The secret delaration of love for Blair - that body, that butt, those eyes

Elizabeth Hurley
I did not have sexual relations with that President. Of course you didn't dear, but we couldn't resist the headline

Nigella Lawson
If you're going to go OTT with a one-face front, best not to do it the day before the world's favourite man dies

Gwyneth Paltrow 
Isn't it time we stopped slavering over an actress's bum?

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Television

BBC
What a paper bill tells us about the BBC - and the Mail
Lambing Live: Don't let the facts get in the way of an anti-Beeb story

Big Brother
Thanks heavens the Star is watching
Star still in a fix over BB

Soaps
Corrie Kev, Lady Mary and Thomas Cromwell: mixing fact with fiction

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Foreign affairs

Charlie Hebdo
Focus on dying policeman suggests fear of covering the main event
France pays silent tribute - plus profiles of the men who died

Pakistan
130 children are slaughtered at school; we splash on cheap petrol 

Isis
Paris attacks: how the front pages evolved through the night
Tunisian shootings: a lesson in reporting a massacre from the  Star
A mother's love, a mother's pride: the murder of Kenji Goto
Alan Henning: when murder is the expected outcome
Mohamed Emwazy is a killer, not a folk hero
The murder of James Foley
Honour Stephen Sotloff, don't glorify his killers 
David Haines:  How would he like to be remembered?
Alan Henning: at last, we're beginning to show some restraint 
How did a Mt Sinjar exclusive end up on the spike and in a rival?

Ebola
The West wakes up, not because of 3,500 dead in Africa, but because of one sick nurse and her dog in Spain

Nigeria
A million tweets later, schoolgirls' abduction finally makes a splash - but what about the massacre?
Nearly 300 girls are abducted from their school, but we're too busy patting ourselves on the back to notice

Syria
Frontline reporting: war correspondents talk about their world 

Ukraine
Guest blog: Revolution in Ukraine and the threat to the West - a special report from Tony Halpin
Guest blog: Don't fool yourself that Putin will stop at Crimea. He wants a great chunk of east and southern Ukraine. More from Tony Halpin
Guest blog: Dreams of empire: Tony Halpin on the radical professor who wants Putin to  look beyond Asia and into Europe

Egypt
Al Jazeera on trial: why should we care about jailed journalists?
Al Jazeera on trial: the verdict, sentences and reaction
Al Jazeera on trial: the court hearings
Al Jazeera on trial: Abdullah Elshamy is freed after ten months in prison 
Al Jazeera on trial: Peter Greste 
A mother's pride, a mother's pain: Peter Greste freed

South Africa
Was that Obama selfie really more important than honouring Mandela?

Philippines
Typhoon appeal: People are not as selfish as editors seem to think

Bangladesh
The Rana Plaza disaster and the women who die for our £1.50 t-shirts
A little red sewing machine to guide us
One miracle is not enough
Will safety accord produce ethical clothing? 
The ethical fashion maze

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Gender issues

Education
No one minded when boys led the way, but once girls get better results or try to go to university, it's a problem

Feminism
Well done that Mail sub: sexist and racist in one headline
It's a shame to see women disappear from bank notes, but does it matter?
A sweatshop splash, the Fawcett Society and a flawed T-shirt campaign
International Women's Day and some skewed ideas about feminism
I need feminism because...some women's rights and wrongs

Objectifying women
Why Helen Mirren rather than Doris Lessing? Why Hayley Atwell at all? 
CEO quits - and the Press focuses on her hair colour and fitness regime
The beginning of the end of Page 3?
The Sun sits back and laughs as everyone goes wild over page 3
Cameron's reshuffle and the Downing Street fashion parade
Sinead O'Connor and some friendly advice for Miley Cyrus

Stereotyping
Murray loses a tennis match - and reporters look for a woman to blame
Mail outraged by city's "real family" of sisters and their sons

Transgender
Richard Littlejohn and the death of a teacher
Was coroner right to attack Press at inquest?
Guest Blog: Katherine O'Donnell on Kellie Maloney 

Crime
Reporting violence against women

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The Royal Family

The Queen
Sun was right to print Queen's "Nazi salute" picture

Prince Charles
Wellies on, gloves off and into battle where politicians feared to tread 

Duchess of Cambridge
How was wedding guest supposed to know what Kate would be wearing?
Another baby on the way? Don't bet on it

Prince George
A supplement or a bottom nib? Taking christening coverage to extremes

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Health and beauty

Cancer 
Colchester hospital scandal: how the local paper measured up
The Sun boobs with its page 3 campaign
Steven Sutton: the Press helped his campaign, but did it improve his life?
The Mail claims Sutton for its own
Ashya King and the force of authority

Diet
Can newspapers help you slim - or are they just after fat profits?
Anorexia at elite schools - the student's story
Food for thought: will that hot dog kill you?

Mental health
Are women being coerced into signing away their children?
Suicide pilot and another chance to get mental health reporting wrong
The killer pilot and depression - again
Robin Williams and suicide reporting
Guest blog: Ven la Faxine on living with depression

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Sport

Press Box
E I Addio's blog on the world of sports journalism
Curse of Olympic correspondents
Big moves on three national sports desks
Pringle bowled a beamer by the Telegraph
Tribute to John Samuel
Express "dead in the water" 
Indie shows Mike Dunn the door
Bloodshed at the Telegraph
End of the line for Neil Harman
Simon Barnes resurfaces at the Mail
News of the World shadows in Derry Street
Jumping the shark with a dildo on transfer deadline day
Mike Ashley and charging journalists for access to Newcastle United
Crystal Palace news updates courtesy of their sponsors
The Mail and Malky Mackay
Four into three won't go at the Mirror
All change at the Sun
"Sloppy and lazy" Harman is Slated
The Telegraph and celebrity columnists

Cheerleading
This sport is not about girls avoiding getting sweaty - or pompoms

Winter Olympics
Jenny Jones was great - but not, it seems, as great as Kate or Moyes
Kerry Gallagher wins Britain's first skiing gold - ever. This is a sport story

Football 
World Cup defeat for most picture editors
If the game is such a big seller, where are the ads?
Reading Chronicle's misguided - and disastrous - hooligan special 
Sir Alex Ferguson has retired, that's all. Why all the fuss?

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Obituary

Catherine Riley
A special blog of tributes to the former Times sports journalist

Journalists everywhere
Editor's blog on those killed or imprisoned trying to expose the truth

Rik Mayall
The trouble with death and how to stretch four facts into four pages

Tony Benn
A chance to look for the good in everyone

Bob Crow
How soon are you allowed to speak ill of the dead?
The papers show restraint on day one...
...but General Max Hastings comes out with all guns blazing on day two

Nelson Mandela
How even the extraordinary becomes templated:
big picture, name, date, emotional quote

David Frost
The art of the obituary: picking the right portrait to tell a life story

Fred Sanger
Double Nobel laureate is denied the attention he deserved

Ben Bradlee
The man who brought down Richard Nixon

Richard Beeston
The Times foreign editor dies listening to his wife reading Scoop.

Chapman Pincher
Patriotic master scooper who spied on the spies

John Samuel
Tribute from E I Adio

Paul Davidson
A gentleman of the subs' desk - and a good friend

Dickie Beeston 
Veteran foreign correspondent who passed his talent to his son

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Environment

Climate change
Why is Rusbridger picking a fight with his friends?

Weather
Is smog going to kill us? Or is it just another murky day?
How many buses equal one weather computer?
How to write the perfect weather story

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Pictures

Spreads, pictures, graphics, design.
 A blog on visuals that unashamedly focuses on style over substance

Tweaking the flat plan to stop ads tainting the news message
The Times, Charlize and a lot of dancers
Commonwealth Games coverage and colour saturation
Iraqi executions or Prince George?
Redesigning the D-Day fronts
The Guardian's HSBC specials
Give us news not puffs
The Star's incredible shrinking splash
...and Vanishing Point at the Express
Photographers, an endangered species
Times sacks half its photographers
Guest blog: Paul Sanders on pixelating faces
Guest blog: Paul Sanders on avoiding the obvious

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Newspapers

• Kate, Maddie and house prices: three months in the Express
• Vanishing point: the day the splash disappeared
• Mirror and Express may be a match made in heaven
• Dear Mr Desmond, If you don't love them, please let them go
• Job cuts and job ads, a tale of two newspapers
• Sports jobs go
• Immigration: time for some maths lessons

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• Why is Rusbridger picking a fight with the Wellcome Trust and Bill Gates?
• The Guardian, the Telegraph and a banking scandal
• The HSBC front pages as they were designed to be seen
• Snowden coverage fails the reader

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• Mike Dunn shown the door
• Shadows of the News of the World surface in Derry Street

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• Grandparents' tale of woe fails to give us the full picture
• What the BBC's paper bill does - and doesn't - tell us
• Looking at the world through thorn-crusted spectacles
• Natalie Bennett's brain fade brings out racism and sexism in one hit
• Justine's fury and the definition of a cad
• It takes all sorts to make a family
• Snowden coverage fails the reader
• Triumph and triumphalism - claiming credit where it may not be due
• The Fawcett Society t-shirt
• The importance of public art
• Malky, Moody and murky goings-on
• Food bank special: why not talk to those who use them?
• Lottery winners separate...and find new love
• George Clooney takes on the Mail
• Richard Littlejohn and the death of a teacher
• Michael Philpott's criminality is not a product of the welfare state

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• 'Legend' Nick Cave not quite famous enough for Mirror
• Mirror and Express could be a match made in heaven
• After the awards celebrations, Gascoigne leaves the Mirror with a hangover
• Was this the way to report the record hacking damages awards?
• Deceived and deceptive, an unhappy pair of front pages
• Sensitive reporting on Kellie Maloney? Or should we have gone beyond this?
• Four killed in car crash is not a national splash
• It may be true, but it's not the truth
• Jill Dando exclusive is intriguing, but is it new?

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• Tunisia: a lesson in how to cover a massacre
• The incredible shrinking splash
• Hallowe'en special: a year of scaring us all to death
• Watching Big Brother
• ...and getting in a fix
• Another Sunday editor bites the dust

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• Of course it was right to run Queen's "Nazi salute"
• Katie Hopkins and the boat people
• Beginning of the end for Page 3?
• Gotcha! Sun sits back and laughs as everyone goes wild over Page 3
• Not much sisterly love for the Times over Page 3
• Maxine Carr's wedding is a cause for celebration
• Sun boobs with cancer campaign

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• News or propaganda? 
• ...and how the Telegraph failed to learn from its mistake
• Ads should not be allowed to taint the news message
• Bouquets and brickbats: what is the point of an editor?
• Peter Oborne quits 
• Guest blog: Peter Oborne on why he resigned
• Oborne resignation: the Telegraph fights back
• Where is the Telegraph's HSBC coverage?
• Jessica Ennis-Hill in a red dress is a great front-page pic. Pity we couldn't see it
• Lambing Live and a disregard for the facts in attack on the BBC
• Why does change inevitably mean job cuts?
• Bloodshed on the sports desk
• Pringle bowled a beamer
• Food for thought: Will that hot dog kill you?

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• No need to be so coy about Nick Cave's interview
• Media editor is the fall guy from Sun's page 3 jape
• Slick slip fixes eclipse lapse
• Times sacks half its photographers
• Job cuts and job ads, a tale of two newspapers
• Privacy, security, Murdoch and Google
• Scooped by itself on Cumberbatch engagement? No...
• ...but did it lose its nerve with Geri?
• Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris and a good day to bury bad news
• Another sad week at The Times
• Hello and goodbye to Wapping
• How to write the perfect weather story

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Journalists

Catherine Riley
In memory of a sport star

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Roger Alton
Farewell without fanfare

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Marc Aspland
A viral get-well-soon message from the stars

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Simon Barnes
Not wanted at the Times
...but resurfaces at Mail

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Ben Bradlee
Legendary editor who brought down Nixon

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Dickie Beeston
Death of a veteran foreign correspondent

...and his son...

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Richard Beeston
What a man, what a life, what a shame

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Peter Carbery
Another Sunday editor bites the dust

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Paul Davidson
A gentleman of the subs' desk

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Mike Dunn
leaves the Sun
...then joins the Indie
...but is shown the door

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Neil Harman
Slated for being "sloppy and lazy"
...and so the Times calls time on his career

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Chapman Pincher
Patriotic scooper who spied on the spies

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Dominic Ponsford
Mastermind of the RIPA campaign

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John Samuel
E I Adio's tribute

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