Journalism

Ziauddin Sardar bemoans the loss of the BBC’s integrity; Andrew Brown waxes lyrical about Claud Cockburn’s brand of journalism; Shiv Visvanathan observes both democracy and journalism degrade together in India; Eric Walberg reflects on his days as a digital news junky; Muhammad Saad laments the Pakistani mainstream media’s failure to cover the catastrophic 2025 floods in Panjab; Josef Linnhoff examines Muhammad Asad’s journalism and journey to 1920s Palestine; Robin Yassin-Kassab comes to terms with fake news and posttruth narratives in an unrecognisable Syria; Saoussen Ben Cheikh highlights alternative media in the Middle East; Boyd Tonkin gives the great Hrant Dink his due portrait; James Brooks pours his heart out over coverage of climate crisis; C Scott Jordan asks what is the future of journalism; Zain Sardar examines the ethics of journalism; Yahia Lababidi looks at the spiritual journalism of Carla Power; Khuda Bushq is appalled at the demonisation of Zohran Mamdani by the American press; and our list of a dozen media outlets you should begin every day with!

In this issue

Culture

A Dozen Media Outlets to Check Out (Daily)

Stuff the BBC. Forget Sky News, CNN, and the rest of the so-called legacy media. Quit Facebook, shun TikTok, and the rest of the pestiferous social…
Reviews

Spiritual Journalism

In these days of unfortunate polarisation, religious and political, it seems we cannot hear one another without suspicion or recrimination.An answer…

Yahia Lababidi
Reviews

Moral Amnesia

There are books that read you first – they articulate the disquiet that has long been wordless in you. You close them feeling that the air around you…

Leila Sansour
Reviews

Good Journalism

We have arrived at a post-truth world in which ‘polycrises’, from intensifying climate catastrophe to retrograde wars perpetuated by autocrats, are…

Zain Sardar
History

Return to Cockburn

Claud Cockburn, one of the finest hacks there has ever been, wrote that journalism is very simple: it is a mixture of advertising and entertainment…

Andrew Brown
Culture

INTRODUCTION: THIS IS THE BBC

Mrs Robertson lived two doors from my humble abode in north London. She had one daughter who migrated to Australia. In her early seventies, she lived…

Ziauddin Sardar