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April 2015
Online news’ thirst for traffic has sidelined polemics and transformed journalists into thieves and liars
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March 2015
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, superbly adapted for television, is brilliant because it defies easy definition
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January/February 2015
The Leveson Inquiry’s carelessness with basic democratic principles has undermined journalistic freeedom
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December 2014
The Corporation's reporting and investigations are still essential-but now they are threatened from within
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