Inside Journalism
Journalists in the News: Windrush reporter says Post Office delays all too familiar
The government must not make the same mistakes in the Post Office scandal as it did with Windrush, says Amelia Gentleman.
The Guardian reporter, who won the Paul Foot award for her Windrush investigations, told the BBC’s Today programme that postmasters and postmistresses are being failed in the same way as the Windrush victims.
“People affected by the Post Office scandal would do well to listen to the experiences of those affected by Windrush. It [applying for compensation] has been bafflingly slow and we know of 40 people who have died between the period of submitting an application and before receiving compensation.”
Thousands of innocent people were caught up in the The Windrush scandal. They were prevented from accessing employment, healthcare and housing because the Home Office had destroyed their documentation, making it impossible for them to prove they were legally allowed to live in the UK. Good BBC briefing here.
Gentleman says the lessons from these scandals are not being learnt: Do you really think ministers will get justice for Post Office victims? Ask the Windrush families and think again
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is hosting a seminar to explore issues relating to AI journalism.
Methodologies for tracking and reporting AI is part of the Global Journalism Seminar series run by the Institute.
Emmy-award winning journalism Professor Hilke Schellmann will deliver the talk at 1pm on 14th February.
For more details or to register, click here.
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has come out fighting in 2024 – already agreeing to be grilled in TV interviews by Laura Kuenssberg and Piers Morgan.
And later this week ITV will broadcast “Rishi Sunak: Up Close” – a programme that promises to deliver to some personal insights into the famously image-conscious prime minister.
Deputy political editor of ITV News, Anushka Asthana, got rare access to Sunak as he returned to his family home in Southampton and joined him as he watched Saints at St Mary’s.
Media watchers and Tory strategists will be carefully watching how Sunak performs.
They’ll want to see if he can handle the confrontational approach of the sit-down interviews, while also coming across a a normal human being in the long-form documentary format.
BBC Local Radio audiences declined by 10% in the second half of last year, according to the latest RAJAR figures.
The results follow major restructuring at the BBC that saw established local radio presenters leaving the corporation and an increase in programme sharing across regions.
Analysis by Press Gazette found that the BBC’s local radio services in England collectively had a weekly reach of 4.9 million in the Q4. Full report here.
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