Jason Walsh

NSFW Corp, April 9, 2013 Margaret Thatcher supported Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, yes. What she did not do was use his tactics. Throughout Thatcher’s reign Britain remained a democracy. Labor party leaders Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock were not dropped from helicopters into the Atlantic ocean. Guardian journalists were not rounded-up and shot. In fact, [...]

CS Monitor, March 27, 2013 Even as the House of Lords passed legislation that would create a new, independent press watchdog, British editors lined up to condemn the body as a threat to basic freedoms. By Jason Walsh, Correspondent

CS Monitor, March 27, 2013 Ireland’s press regulations, which include an ombudsman and a council of publishers, public citizens, and journalists, are less restrictive than the proposed British version. By Jason Walsh, Correspondent

Spiked, January 25, 2013 Journalism academic Brian Winston talks to Jason Walsh about the parlous state of free speech in the UK, how ‘crap’ the News of the World was, and why it should still be in existence. by Jason Walsh

CS Monitor, January 23, 2012 Reports concerning an Irish county council’s proposal to allow rural inhabitants to drive after drinking have been greatly exaggerated. By Jason Walsh, Correspondent / January 23, 2013

City AM, November 30, 2012 JASON WALSH LORD Justice Leveson met his deadline yesterday, issuing the findings of his eight month inquiry into the “culture, practices, and ethics” of the press. It came as no surprise that he concluded the state has a role to play in overseeing newspapers.

Spiked, September 20, 2012 Richard Desmond’s threat to close the Irish Daily Star is the latest blow in today’s war on press freedom.

PressEurop, August 30, 2012 WHAT IS NEWS? The Sun newspaper’s publication of nude photographs of Prince Harry has reinvigotated the hue-and-cry about the antics of the British tabloids, but amid the complaints, the issue of what news is actually for is the buried lede.

CS Monitor, July 13, 2012 A Boston College research project meant to collect testimony about Troubles-era crimes may now be a political time-bomb for Northern Ireland, thanks to a federal appeals court ruling. By Jason Walsh, Correspondent / July 13, 2012

Idea magazine, June 27, 2012 Journalism is in crisis but hunger for news has exploded. Is data journalism the internet era’s answer to the woes of the industry, and does it tell the public what it needs to know?