BBC’s Fergus Walsh interview: Anxiety from covering coronavirus ‘really quite bad at one point’
The BBC’s Fergus Walsh has said he was kept awake at night thinking about the coronavirus and the broadcaster’s coverage…
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The Stage acting as ‘community glue’ for theatre industry amid Covid-19 shutdown, says editor
The editor of The Stage has said the title has proven more important than ever as theatres were forced to…
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Interview: Insider editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson says news outfits that can survive Covid-19 crisis will later thrive
Nicholas Carlson knows what it’s like to lose your job during a recession. In 2008, at the height of the…
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Mark Thompson reveals why New York Times has not made any Covid-19 cuts… and how crisis may save the BBC
The former boss of the BBC believes the broadcaster’s “exceptionally good” Covid-19 coverage could secure its long-term future, which was…
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Interview: Head of Talksport Lee Clayton on running a sports radio station with no sport (+video)
Head of Talksport Lee Clayton says his station’s responsibilities to its listeners during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic are to “continue…
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Shaun Lintern interview: The Independent’s health writer on covering coronavirus (+video)
“At a time of national crisis you don’t suspend journalism, in fact it becomes even more important.” This is the…
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On the Record: Yorkshire Post editor James Mitchinson – ‘I don’t think we’ve beaten the disease of sexism in newsrooms’
Yorkshire Post editor James Mitchinson, 38, spoke to Press Gazette about the hiding he got when he left banking for…
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On the Record: Liverpool Echo editor Alastair Machray – ‘Every day I have a laugh at some point’
Liverpool Echo editor Alastair Machray, 57, spoke to Press Gazette about his 40-year history in the news business, his first…
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