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Jane Martinson
Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnist
May 2025This goes beyond Gary Lineker. The BBC risks coming apart over the Gaza warJane Martinson23 May 2025 09.00 CESTAndrew Norfolk obituary19 May 2025 17.18 CESTApril 2025This post-Huw
Edwards BBC shakeup feels awfully familiar – and insiders aren’t impressed Jane Martinson28 Apr 2025 19.43 CESTYes, we should celebrate Adolescence – but it comes at a cost to the UK TV
industryJane Martinson3 Apr 2025 11.00 CEST…… commentsFebruary 2025The BBC wanted Black listeners and turned to Tim Westwood, white son of a vicar. A parable for our timesJane Martinson28
Feb 2025 12.00 CET‘We’re clearly heading towards collapse’: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang22 Feb 2025 13.50 CETJanuary 2025A day to mark Prince Harry’s historic victory over
Rupert Murdoch – and to survey the awful toll on public lifeJane MartinsonThe prince was right to fight – and also right about the need to stop good journalism being sullied by the bad.
Trust has been severely damaged, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson22 Jan 2025 14.23 CETDecember 2024As a media columnist, even I found myself turning away from the news in 2024. But we
can do things differentlyJane MartinsonMore people are avoiding ‘boring’ or ‘depressing’ news for scrolling social media, but accurate reporting has never been more vital, says Guardian
columnist Jane Martinson21 Dec 2024 11.00 CET…… commentsNovember 2024Anatomy of a non-scandal: the defence of Allison Pearson reveals how ‘free speech’ has been weaponisedJane MartinsonThe
Telegraph journalist sent a deeply offensive and inaccurate tweet. Yet she has won the support of a swath of newspapers, an ex-PM – and Elon Musk, writes Guardian columnist Jane Martinson20
Nov 2024 09.50 CETSeptember 2024After the Huw Edwards scandal, a tip for the BBC – your stars are not Gods: stop treating them like thatJane Martinson17 Sept 2024 12.38 CESTWhy the BBC
making one journalist redundant matters – for our media and democracyJane Martinson10 Sept 2024 12.00 CEST…… commentsAugust 2024A powerful man given free rein and indulged, Huw Edwards is
proof the BBC hasn’t changedJane MartinsonThe spotlight has fallen on how the broadcaster handled the scandal, but the bigger picture is the god-like status it gives to high-profile men4 Aug
2024 10.00 CESTJuly 2024Battle resumes to take control of Telegraph – and the Tory soulAfter year in ownerless limbo, Conservative party’s bible goes up for sale in second auction next
week11 Jul 2024 10.00 CESTMay 2024The rightwing media aim to save Britain from Labour. They’re also desperate to save themselvesJane MartinsonNone of them are enthusiastic about Starmer or
Sunak. And all are anxious about what comes next, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson24 May 2024 09.00 CEST…… commentsApril 2024It’s sad that Hugh Grant v Rupert Murdoch won’t go to
court, but good can come of itJane MartinsonThe media mogul has taken these hacking allegations out of the public arena. Use this moment to craft reforms, says Guardian columnist Jane Mar
tinson18 Apr 2024 18.03 CEST…… commentsMarch 2024Seven Up! changed British TV – and how we see ourselves. Here’s why the series is still unmissableJane MartinsonThe Up documentaries, voted
the most influential TV show of the past 50 years, shone a unique light on our national character, says the BPG’s Jane Martinson13 Mar 2024 17.22 CET…… commentsFebruary 2024How can GB News
get away with peddling ‘turbo cancer’ conspiracy theories? Only Ofcom knowsJane MartinsonIt smacks of political bias to cite freedom of expression when dismissing complaints about a
presenter’s anti-vaxxer rants, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson13 Feb 2024 14.09 CETJanuary 2024From bot reporters to the loss of a legendary editor, the Daily Mirror is hanging by a
threadJane MartinsonIn a rightwing, plutocrat-dominated media landscape, we can’t afford to lose it - especially in an election year, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson18 Jan 2024 15.22
CET…… commentsDecember 2023Today in FocusThe Barclays and the battle for the Telegraph18 Dec 2023 04.00 CETThe press faces a moment of peril. It can’t just shrug and move onJane Martinson16
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