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Readers Editor

Think your money is legal tender? Don’t bank on it

Readers have a habit of shining spotlights on unexpected issues that throw up interesting queries. Or, on occasion, a downright can of worms.

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Inside Readers Editor

Bad manors? Or is it just a phrase we’re going through?

Friday, 18 May 2012

Sometimes the simplest query to this column can trigger the loveliest of journeys. Consider an e-mail from Robin Morton, formerly of this parish (notably on our business and leader writers’ desks):
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Seeing is believing when it comes to the justice system

Friday, 11 May 2012

A Bill in the Queen’s Speech will, hopefully, speed up the process of letting some more sunlight into Northern Ireland’s rather musty justice system.
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Now we all no Pea Sea spell cheques aren’t full proof

Friday, 27 April 2012

What a miss: by our subs, that isLast week’s column on the double-edged nature of spell checking devices attracted plenty of comment.
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Every picture tells a story ... but this one was five years old

Saturday, 7 April 2012

Violence at, or connected to, sporting occasions used to be a bit of a fact of life. Those days, thankfully, are long behind us. But incidents do occasionally occur. And when they do, it's right that they are in the news.
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In Titanic effort to get things right, you keep us on our toes

Friday, 30 March 2012

With the anniversary of the loss of a certain ship fast approaching, readers, viewers and listeners of the media have been, well let’s say, inundated with material.
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No need for a smoking gun in the pursuit of wrongdoing

Friday, 23 March 2012

The pendulum between the right to know and the right to privacy has swung fairly wildly in recent years.
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Policing has much to gain from working with the Press

Friday, 9 March 2012

Things have gotten to quite a state when police officers are afraid to talk to journalists. So said Lord Stevens this week.
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Spike in web traffic a silver lining for embattled Press

Friday, 2 March 2012

Some good news on the regional newspaper front. The number of people logging on to the website of their local newspaper across the UK is increasing.
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PCC is misguided in the case of the misguided pilot

Friday, 24 February 2012

Regular readers will know that this column has been a faithful supporter of the Press Complaints Commission, while acknowledging that the ‘phone-hacking controversy has effectively proven the case that the self-regulatory watchdog needs sharper teeth.
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Complaints Commission needs more local input

Saturday, 18 February 2012

I'd like to return, as promised, to the subject of bereavement and media ethics, following last week's column. If you recall, a charity called SAMM (Support After Murder and Manslaughter) published a report that concluded local journalists are too often crass, duplicitous and insensitive when it comes to dealing with families who have lost a loved one in such a manner.
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Northern Ireland too small to have Press ombudsman

Friday, 10 February 2012

Should Northern Ireland have its own Press ombudsman? That was the question posed recently by a group acting for relatives of people who have been killed in Northern Ireland.
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We don’t have rats, councillor, just good newshounds

Friday, 3 February 2012

The Belfast Telegraph landed itself in hot water with some politicians this week. For doing its job. And for a story that promoted Belfast in a positive light.
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Front page gaffe leaves us all with that sinking feeling

Friday, 20 January 2012

Was that the sound of twin clangers being dropped on Monday morning? Simultaneously, and by the Belfast Telegraph and the Guardian, no less.
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Mail’s Lawrence campaign shows tabloids at their best

Friday, 6 January 2012

It’s been yet another telling week in the topsy-turvy world of newspaper journalism. After the prolonged roasting of the tabloids at the Leveson inquiry, the Daily Mail fought back mightily this week following two murder convictions in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial.
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