Only Connect: Journalism’s Future Depends On Re-Connection
Reports of the ‘death’ of journalism are grossly exaggerated. However, in the constantly shifting ‘attention [read on...]
Articles by Andrew Calcutt
Calcutt’s Cartoons: an experiment in literary journalism
What follows is a small scale attempt at a different way of doing journalism – a new version of journalism which might have less difficulty distinguishing itself from the rest of the digital landscape. [read on...]
Hackgate
Collision At The Crossroads: tabloids crash into celebrity journalism [read on...]
Essentialist Manifesto
The Importance of Being Essentialist: another manifesto [read on...]
Hack Proof
re-forming the story must take precedence over re-setting the moral compass. Story, first; morality, second – unless we follow this order of priorities, journalism will be unable to regain its sense of direction. [read on...]
An Open Letter to Fellow Journalists: Reformulating The Story Is More Urgent Than Moral Reform
The most pressing problem in journalism is not moral collapse but the collapse of ‘the story’. [read on...]
Objection! The Case for Professional News Reporting
The purpose of this essay is to show how journalism is true to the world it describes, despite the many, fully justifiable complaints levelled against some aspects of it; moreover, that professionally produced news reporting is disposed to provide a unique kind of truth which is not generally replicable by non-professionals - at least, not in current conditions nor in the foreseeable future [read on...]
(C) Proof