Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart

Articles by Brian Cathcart

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Why isn’t our press more diverse?: Brian Cathcart

  • 16 January 2012

Professor of journalism, Kingston University

PR is so un-British

  • 11 November 2009

Our media are wedded to first-past-the-post because it makes for a great front page and somehow captures our eccentricity

Odd man out

  • 29 January 2009

The Strangest Man: the Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius Graham Farmelo Faber & Faber, 495pp, £22.50

The wars of too many words

  • 11 December 2008
  • 1 comment

Since the Independent offered its readers more on Saturday, bulk has been the weapon of choice in the circulation war

Against the liberalocracy

  • 13 November 2008
  • 2 comments

The editor of the Daily Mail sees himself as a victim, desperately leading the defence of the values of the mass of decent people

The Real McCann Scandal

  • 23 October 2008
  • 32 comments

Brian Cathcart details how the British press set out to systematically destroy the parents of Madeleine McCann.

News hit by whiteout

  • 09 October 2008
  • 1 comment

The press is still in panicky denial over diversity and racism, as the coverage of Sir Ian Blair's departure shows

The market delivers bad news

  • 02 October 2008
  • 3 comments

If Grade's shareholders had their way, ITV would probably broadcast no regional news programmes at all

Journalists: they can't live without us

  • 25 September 2008

Amid all the changes delivered by communications technology, no one has yet found another way of generating news content. It's just a pity they show so little interest in making that content better

Getting things right is not a luxury

  • 18 September 2008
  • 1 comment

In sacking most of its sub-editors, Express Newspapers is making a classic error. The job these people do is not an optional extra or an anachronism; it is integral

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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