HoldtheFrontPage publishes two columns – the regular Law Column and Dyson at Large.
The fortnightly Law Column is written by media law specialists Foot Anstey and is designed to encourage debate on all aspects of the law as it affects working journalists. It appears every other Tuesday.
Former regional daily editor Steve Dyson’s monthly Dyson at Large blog established itself as a must-read throughout the local press industry for more than 10 years. Our full archive containing hundreds of his reviews, comments and debates are available here.
Other guest blogs may also appear on this page from time to time.
Former Birmingham Mail editor Steve Dyson’s new blog "Dyson at Large" launches on HoldtheFrontPage today. Each Wednesday, Steve will be looking at a different regional title and giving his assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and today he kicks off
Over the past fortnight we’ve been carrying out a poll to find your favourite HTFP press funny of 2009. Our original shortlist of ten featured our choice of the best mis-spellings, subbing errors, bizarre news judgements and missing headlines of
Former Birmingham Mail editor’s new blog starts here
On HoldtheFrontPage today we are running our nominations for the Top Ten Friday Funnies of 2009, featuring the very best in UK press cock-ups, bizarre news judgements, unintentional double entendres and sheer silliness from the past 12 months. Now we
This rather sorry image was captured in a regional press newsroom earlier today. We’ll spare the blushes of the newspaper concerned, but the journalist who sent it to us seemed to think it summed up his company’s year…..
An Israeli sports reporter got more than he bargained for when he went to cover a basketball match on Tuesday. Irmi Olmert, the brother of the country’s former Prime Minister Ehud, apparently took exception to something the reporter had said
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Most HoldtheFrontPage readers would say yes, of course. But here’s an opposing view from the Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
You can say what you like about TV’s the X-Factor, but it certainly gets people talking. Last night’s decision by Simon Cowell to reprieve talentless twins John and Edward Grimes at the expense of Welsh songbird Lucie Jones has been
As his one-time deputy Keith Perch recently noted, Mike Lowe was one of the great ‘personality editors’ of the 1990s, bringing his unique style of journalism to first the Gloucester Citizen, then the Derby Evening Telegraph, and finally the Bristol
The funeral of former MEN political editor Ian Craig took place in his family’s home town of Wrexham yesterday, with many regional lobby figures past and present paying their respects. So today’s obituary by David McKittrick in the Independent was
Tory blogger Iain Dale’s connection to the regional press is somewhat tenuous – he writes a column for the Eastern Daily Press – so we didn’t carry today’s story about the PCC adjudication against him on the main site. Nonetheless,
Earlier this week on HoldtheFrontPage we carried news of the sudden death of long-standing regional lobby correspondent Ian Craig, who until earlier this year was political editor of the Manchester Evening News. It is always sad when a journalist passes
A certain amount flak will inevitably be flying in the direction of Trinity Mirror over its decision to take the Birmingham Post weekly. Indeed the NUJ’s Chris Morley, who seems to reserve his most colourful invective for matters affecting Trinity
Speculation is mounting in the blogosphere over the future of the Trinity Mirror owned titles in Birmingham. Nearly two months ago, the company launched a wide-ranging consultation over the future of the Birmingham Post and Mail. Options under consideration included
In a similar sort of vein to the previous post, the journalism foundation course run in Newcastle by the Press Association recently turned 40, but there were no birthday celebrations for the renowned training centre. Sadly for its many distinguished