Why waking up in rehab taught me more than editing The Sun about personal crisis. And what we think about Huw Edwards, the BBC and tabloid lore. Up now on BBC Sounds, or listen on @BBCRadio 4 at 4.30pm. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

📣 Meet the 2024 Truth Tellers!
The 2nd annual #SirHarrySummit will deepen the global networks that support fearless inquiry, celebrate the industry’s great practitioners and remind the world why serious journalism is indispensable.
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“Declining media freedom goes hand in hand with a decline in the rule of law. There’s a close correlation between the two. This is the playbook of authoritarian regimes.”
Eva Simon jon henley The Guardian
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Great to see the return of the #SirHarrySummit after a very successful first event in 2023. We’re very pleased to be partnering with Reuters & Tina Brown in honouring our late, great alumnus Sir Harry Evans, and look forward to May 15

Biden: “Of course, age is an issue. I’m a grown man, and I’m running against a six-year-old.”

When the Met says this about the Mail. Wow!

I feel very lucky to have known and learned from David Marquand. His Macdonald biography is a very fine piece of work, his books in progressive politics were pathbreaking, and he was also in my experience a gentle and kind man.

So Trump’s former Attorney General who accused the president of lying about the 2020 election result, of trying to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, and said he would bring chaos to the US if returned to office…..has just come out and endorsed him for November. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The cameraman filming Klopp’s final season for a fly-on-the-wall documentary. 🎥🍿

I knew John Hoskyns and I doubt he’d have much in common with David Frost

I think it would be a really good thing if people didn't post or go looking for the video of Rageh Omar when he became poorly presenting the news last night and instead just wish him a speedy recovery.

Exclusive: Inside a tabloid newspaper morning conference.

New Elizabeth Tudor column just dropped

Without Mike Lynch there would be no Darktrace - so how did the UK government thank him for creating another £4.3B of value here? By doing zilch, nada, nothing to stop the Americans extraditing him, that's what.
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Policing Minister Chris Philp has just asked if Congo is a different country from Rwanda while on BBC's Question Time 👀

Fine day at the office for us, no ridiculous celebrations, one Manchester City win at a time…… cool, calm, clever.

So little attention paid to who is chairing Ofcom…..

So Jeremy Bowen and I had a small gathering to celebrate our 40 years in The BBC and here's an historic moment as the wonderful Marianna Spring explains the internet to a sceptic😳

The answer is no. The wishful thinking of some editors borders on the comic.

A revealing podcast exchange between the former editor of the Sun David Yelland and top PR man (+ former Murdoch son in law) Matthew Freud about why Keir Starmer should keep his distance from Rupert. From