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2 months ago | 
inpublishing.co.uk | Ray Snoddy |Raymond Snoddy
You can gain a number of important insights into the remarkable career of investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who uncovered the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in three recent tweets. The first is almost lengthy by the normal standards of Twitter, now called X. It read: “Polite reminder. Trump and Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies, same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
inpublishing.co.uk | Ray Snoddy |Raymond Snoddy
The Observer columnist, Will Hutton, has been campaigning for more rational and inclusive forms of government in the UK for nearly three decades — all the way back to his bestseller, ‘The State We Are In’, published 28 years ago.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
inpublishing.co.uk | Ray Snoddy |Raymond Snoddy
“If you’ve trained as a journalist as I did, it never leaves you. You can’t do social media as a PR person, it would be so anodyne,” admits Yelland. He believes the writing of tweets is a form of journalism — writing about quite complicated things in not many words. So, the former Sun editor has recently argued that the leaking of unflattering pictures of Sir Keir Starmer’s chief-of-staff, Sue Gray from the Downing Street garden, was a disgrace.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
exbulletin.com | Ray Snoddy
The life of a mainstream media journalist can involve compromises. Your editor will have a say, sometimes your owner, sometimes even your sales team. Your brilliant story can be cropped, edited or hijacked. Political journalist Peter Oborne felt frustrated by this and went his own way. Ray Snoddy asked him why.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
inpublishing.co.uk | Ray Snoddy |Raymond Snoddy
In a recent InPublishing interview, the former editor of the Daily Mail and current editor of The Independent, Geordie Greig, told how he turned down a job offer at a leading American international merchant bank to become a junior reporter on the South East London and Kentish Mercury for a fraction of the pay. For Greig, and many others who go on to have a distinguished career in the newspaper industry, only journalism would do.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
inpublishing.co.uk | Ray Snoddy |Raymond Snoddy
At first sight, the 25th anniversary conference of the Society of Editors was a serious case of déjà vu. There was the obligatory appearance by the culture secretary of the day, or home secretary in old times, swearing undying affection for freedom of the press without offering too much in the way of practical help to protect such freedom. Then, ever since the Leveson Inquiry, there have been lamentations about the rock bottom, and declining, state of relations between the media and the police.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
inpublishing.co.uk | Ray Snoddy |Raymond Snoddy
When Alan Rusbridger was editor of The Guardian, the co-founder of Prospect magazine, former Conservative MP Derek Coombs, tried to persuade him that the Guardian should invest in the high end, monthly current affairs magazine. Rusbridger was scarcely against long form, thoughtful, analytical journalism. Far from it, but he was not convinced of the business case for such a magazine and the answer was an emphatic rejection.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
inpublishing.co.uk | Ray Snoddy |Raymond Snoddy
In the careers of many significant journalists, an early choice is made, a road chosen which turns out to have been crucial. It is certainly so with Geordie Greig, editor-in-chief of The Independent and former editor of the Evening Standard, The Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail. When at Oxford, Greig told his father he was going to apply to newspapers for a job. His father, Sir Carron Greig, a successful businessman, asked whether he had thought of joining a bank.
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Dec 2, 2023 | 
inpublishing.co.uk | Ray Snoddy |Raymond Snoddy
Sir John Curtice, distinguished psephologist and expert on public opinion polls and professor of politics at Strathclyde University, is not exactly a household name. But at election times, he is a familiar face making sense of the voting trends and delivering authoritative exit poll verdicts. Sir John has called them right since 2005. Unsurprisingly, he is the go-to back-up man for the main studio presenters.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
inpublishing.co.uk | Ray Snoddy |Raymond Snoddy
Something odd happened at a gastropub in London’s Muswell Hill two years ago. The Victoria Stakes could not operate as a business because of Covid but a few people started meeting there regularly with the windows wide open. They were journalists on a mission and the challenge was something that has become something of a Holy Grail – how do you devise from scratch a news business that reaches out to young adults with accurate, reliable information.
