Dominated by white men? Errr, who is going to tell them….
Guido hears Andy Woodcock from the Press Association has been appointed political editor of the Independent to replace Joe Watts. More when we have it…
UPDATE: Following Guido’s story, Woodcock has confirmed the move. Guido hopes he gets speedier once he has moved to the digital-only Indy…
Some personal news. I’m delighted to announce that after many very fulfilling years at @PA, I’m joining the @Independent as Political Editor, hoping to fill the shoes of the inestimable @JoeWatts_
— Andrew Woodcock (@AndyWoodcock) April 12, 2019
Research by Women in Journalism has found that between 5 June and 22 July the Independent and the Mirror were the worst news organisations for gender byline equality. 91% of Indy front-page bylines during the period were male, just 9% of stories were written by women. The Mirror wasn’t much better, their gender byline ratio was 90% was 10%. The Mirror might be bro-cialists but the Indy spends its whole time lecturing on gender equality, so this is pretty damning for them. In the same period covered by the survey the Guy Newsroom was 25% female, a similar result to The Times…
H/T Press Gazette
The coverage of some newspapers breathlessly endorsing Juncker’s nonsense today is remarkable. Not sure siding with Jean-Claude is a great look for Remainers…
UPDATE: Iain Martin agrees over on Reaction.
By day, Independent news reporter Niamh McIntyre writes punchy copy talking up Labour and bashing the Tories for the news section of the Indy website. When she clocks off Niamh dons her “F**k the Tories” necklace and “Vote Barry” sticker and campaigns for Labour’s press hater-in-chief Barry Gardiner in Brent North:
Niamh looks more like one of those “never kissed a Tory” types, so this seems like an incredibly generous offer to any blue rosette wearing types.
News with strong views…
Less thorough elements of the online media are claiming that Marine Le Pen last night tweeted an endorsement of Theresa May’s conference speech. According to Huff Po UK:
Le Pen, who was once tried for inciting racial hatred for comparing Muslims praying publicly to the Nazi occupation, responded: “Exactly.” She even threw in an applause emoji.
And according to the Independent:
Theresa May’s Conservative conference speech has received a ringing endorsement from French far right leader, Marine Le Pen.
No, she didn’t. The account which sent the tweet was clearly marked “compte non officiel”, which you really shouldn’t have to be French to be able translate. The Indy have now deleted their article (cached version can still be seen here), but HuffPo’s is still up. Story is complete BS but, hey, at least it gets you some clicks…
