From Byline to Byline Times

22 March 2019

The focus of Byline has expanded and shifted to a commissioned and edited news site and newspaper. This website is now a copy, for posterity, of as much of the fantastic journalism and writing as we could export and recreate from the “old” Byline.com .

The Cairncross Report: what it says and first impressions

Brian Cathcart, 12 February 2019

These decent proposals for helping public service journalism are worryingly vulnerable to manipulation by corporate press bosses and their ministerial friends

Phone hacking: time the police stepped in

Brian Cathcart, 4 February 2019

Evidence against executives and editors is piling up in the civil courts, but newspapers are just buying their way out of trouble. The right place for this is the criminal courts, which means the Met must act

Facebook backs the wrong horse in UK local journalism

Brian Cathcart, 19 November 2018

The tech giant’s £4.5m donation is good news, but boosting the firms that oversaw the devastation of the local press is a mistake

A Duty to Inform, as well as Entertain: The BBC On the Edge of an Abyss

Peter Jukes, 21 December 2018

It may well be too late for this generation of senior BBC news executives to recover their lost reputation. But it is not too late for the BBC to perform the service it was created for – to inform their license payers of the realities at a time of national crisis.