2 September 2003 – While the Hutton Inquiry has been investigating the circumstances behind Dr David Kelly’s untimely death and the row between the BBC and Downing Street, PressWise Director Mike Jempson has been working with journalists in SE Asia … Continue reading
11 October 2002 – It’s probably fair to say that the 1999 Oslo Challenge does not figure prominently in the memory banks of media professionals or governments. Perhaps it should. For, just for a change, this is good news. What … Continue reading
30 July 2001 – The media, both print and broadcast, are having a field day at the expense of Chris Morris and the Brass Eye team for their satirical onslaught against media representations of paedophilia. Distasteful as some may have … Continue reading
27 June 2001 – Somewhere in Britain, sometime soon, a perfectly innocent 18-year-old boy is going to move into a new flat or a new job and be viciously assaulted; perhaps killed. This may not be the intent of the … Continue reading
Bulletin No 39, 9 March 2001 What happens when you bring together journalists from countries in the Balkans which were shooting at each other until recently (and in some cases still are)? That was the problem facing PressWise director Mike … Continue reading
9 January 2001 – PressWise applauds the decision of Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss to grant lifetime anonymity to Robert Thompson and Jon Venables – the killers of young James Bulger – after their release from custody. The reason, as she made … Continue reading
Bulletin No 28, 8 September 2000 Local radio stations in Cuzco, Peru, have agreed to broadcast more material by and for children as a result of the latest PressWise initiative under its Representing Lost Childhood project – funded by the … Continue reading