My article about Press Gazette is online

An article I wrote about Press Gazette for the September/October issue of the NUJ's magazine The Journalist has gone online here . It was very hard to be optimistic about the future of the magazine which has switched to monthly publication after 43 years as a weekly to try and stem financial losses. One point I was trying to make in the article is that I felt it was very important to have an independent magazine covering the national press because they are so partisan when covering each other. They also can't stand criticism from their rivals, as shown by the no holds barred attack on Roy Greenslade by The Independent's media commentator Stephen Glover in his column on Monday. Glover was furious about Greenslade's article on the revamped Independent in his Evening Standard column. Glover wrote: "We pundits are sometimes cruel or unfair. I have certainly written things I later regretted. But I wonder whether I have ever sunk as low as my esteemed colleague Professor Roy Campbell-Greenslade did in his media column in the London Evening Standard last week." Ouch!