Why we ran after Boris
SORRY to be vulgar, but I call bullshit. After Boris Johnson had cycled away from what was, if we are honest, an old-style newspaper ambush, his press officer told us that if [READ ON]
Journalism
Morning update 20.10.15: The countess in the red car
THE MISSING EARL’S MUM OUR website crashed on Friday as thousands of people tried to read the front page of the West End Extra, the New Journal‘s sister paper, at [READ ON]
Morning update 27.09.15: Sian Berry accuses Evening Standard of going soft on Zac Goldsmith
* 'The Establishment is anointing Zac Goldsmith': Sian Berry says the Evening Standard are soft on likely Conservative candidate * Get your W.A.S.P. records out
* Bake-off controversy * Council leaders left off conference agenda * Dreaming of Jeremy [READ ON]
Myleene, the coconut crab… and how the Express came to take its own quotes from the Mail
THE story of Myleene Klass’s stowaway crab, her rat-eating giant crab last seen up a tree on Hampstead Heath, is a great example of journalism descending into a silly [READ ON]
Meet the hackers
HARRIET Harman has ordered checks on newly signed-up members of the Labour Party, many of which have paid their three quid in order to take part in the leadership contest, [READ ON]
Looks like a geography teacher II
GEOGRAPHYTEACHERGEDDON continues with no end in sight. Try as they might, journalists and columnists just cannot resist pushing Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn as a [READ ON]
This could be the splish splash
THE New Journal‘s offices in Camden Town were a little bit quieter last week, missing the hum of our mate Peter Gruner’s repetitive gags and morning reviews of [READ ON]
Editor: I hate using the term ‘Jihadi John’
THE parliamentary candidates in Hampstead and Kilburn renewed their election argument at the Belsize Square Synagogue last night. I say argument, but they are all very civil [READ ON]
Alastair Campbell says ‘it’s all rubbish’ in 1,001 words
ALTHOUGH he writes novels, interviews people for GQ and plays celebrity football matches these days, Alastair Campbell’s name in newspapers is almost always [READ ON]
‘Tim Burton has declared jihad against the Camden New Journal’
FAR be it for someone who has spent as long as me in local journalism to judge, but did you know that there are people out there who spend up to eight thousand pounds a year [READ ON]
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