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Oliver Dowden has urged the public to buy newspapers which are providing a “vital public service” by providing the public with access to trusted and accurate information during the coronavirus outbreak. The Culture Secretary pointed to News Media Association figures...
Is the BBC still in peril? – Online discussion – 12 May
Coronavirus may have taken over the public discourse but has it kicked the threat to the BBC into the long grass? Three months ago, ‘Downing Street sources’ were briefing that the BBC was to be broken up and non-payment of the licence fee decriminalised,...
Evening Standard former production editor dies of Covid-19
THE widow of a former Evening Standard production editor who died of coronavirus has paid tribute to a “wonderful man”. Brian Hood died in April aged 67 in hospital in Ashford, Kent. Hood was admitted for cancer treatment after a long-running battle but caught...
‘All in, all together’ campaign launched
The government and the newspaper industry have formed a three-month advertising partnership to help keep the public safe and the nation united throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. The “All in, all together” campaign idea was developed by the newspaper industry and...
Former Evening Standard deputy editor Peter Boyer dies
Former Evening Standard deputy editor Peter Boyer has died after a long illness. Peter Boyer headed the daily editorial production operation from the mid-Eighties to the end of the Nineties, working with four editors: John Leese, Paul Dacre, Stewart Steven and Max...Follow us on Twitter
Bill Hagerty - A tribute to our Director and Journalist Laureate who passed away yesterday. #journalism #journalist
RIP ace journalist Bill Hagerty, former editor of The People.
He was a shrewd, kindly and humorous bloke with an engagingly cantankerous side.
Thinking of Liz and his family and all his friends.
RIP.
https://mailchi.mp/bd45f6a74be4/news-from-the-london-press-club-bill-hagerty . The London Press Club was saddened to learn of the passing of respected journalist and Press Club Director, Bill Hagerty, on Boxing Day. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time.