Becoming the story: journalist Isabel Oakeshott in 2013.
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The first thing journalists learn is that confidential sources must be protected except in extraordinary circumstances.
From ‘make do’ to ‘make merry’: Britons did their best to forget the hardships of war at Christmas in 1942.
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By the fourth festive season into the war, rationing was biting – but good news from the front and the generosity of US soldiers helped keep morale buoyant.
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The second part of the Leveson Inquiry was cancelled in 2018, but there is still unfinished business.
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While most daily newspapers presented the conflict as black and white, weeklies presented readers with a more sophisticated and nuanced take.
British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938 with his ‘piece of paper’ ensuring peace in Europe.
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The Post’s editor, Arthur Mann, withstood extreme pressure to fall in with orthodox political thinking over appeasement with Nazi Germany.
Still image from the 1940 propaganda film ‘Christmas Under Fire’ produced by the Crown Film Unit.
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Despite rationing and the Blitz, Christmas on the domestic front in 1940 was cheerful and optimistic.
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Local news websites have offered essential details on how to understand COVID rules and where to buy toilet rolls.
British Muslims protesting their treatment by the UK media in 2007. Nothing much has changed.
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Press reports about Islam have often been misleading or discriminatory. This new advice does little to help journalists avoid that.
Neville Chamberlain wanted to avoid war at all costs. Adolf Hitler felt differently.
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Press secretary George Steward had clandestine meetings with Nazi officials as he worked for appeasement with Germany before the second world war.
Harold Evans: one of the most respected journalists of his generation.
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Evans is admired for his fearless leadership and tireless campaigning journalism.
Devastation: how Hiroshima looked the day after the atom bomb was dropped.
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British newspapers were very quick to see the horrific potential of this new weapon.
Exhausted British troops on the quayside at Dover, May 31 1940.
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It may not have been Britain’s finest hour, but was it Fleet Street’s?
A protester makes his views about the prime minister’s advisor clear outside Downing Street, May 2020.
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COVID-19 ‘news fatigue’ had set in with the UK public, but then the prime minister’s chief advisor changed all that.
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More and more people in the UK have been going out of their way to avoid news over the past couple of years: first with Brexit, now with COVID-19.
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What the UK public thinks of the way the pandemic and lockdown are being covered by the media.
The Daily Herald’s front page for VE Day: 80% of the UK public read a newspaper during the war.
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Britain’s newspaper’s reported some wild scenes as the nation celebrated, but none wilder than in the Daily Mirror’s cartoon strip.
The UK’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty and prime minister Boris Johnson taking questions from BBC journalist Laura Kuenssberg at the end of March.
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Calls for journalists to rally round the UK government’s efforts to fight the pandemic are out of touch with public opinion, an in-depth study of news audiences has found.
Lockdown comes into force in Britain, March 23.
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The government is under relentless pressure from the UK media to relax the strict lockdown rules. That could be a dangerous mistake.
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It’s a bold move, but publishers are increasingly desperate to attract digital readers to offset the fall in print sales.
As usual, the UK media landscape offered partisan coverage of the 2019 election.
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It wasn’t the ‘Sun wot won it’, but the partisanship of the UK press made the Conservatives’ task a great deal easier.