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

Theresa May certainly deserves criticism for the way she has handled the Grenfell fire. But this front page claiming she didn’t meet survivors is just plain wrong. May met survivors yesterday in two separate visits…

The Daily Mirror’s political editor Jack Blanchard is leaving print for Politico, a move which shows which way the wind is blowing. The future is niche. As ever, MediaGuido brings you your runners and riders to replace him…

• Ben Glaze, Mirror: A Mirror man who has risen up the ranks to deputy pol ed. Obviously well in with Labour and has even managed to convince the Tories to let him ask Theresa May sarky questions at election events. Will be an early favourite.
• Keir Mudie, Sunday People: A Trinity Mirror veteran, Mudie is currently political correspondent at the Sunday People. Highly thought of in Canary Wharf…
• Kevin Schofield, PoliticsHome: Well in with Labour, though pricey. Anti-Jez MPs would welcome the move…
• Steve Hawkes, The Sun: The Lindsay Hoyle to TND’s John Bercow, surely he is ready for a top job on a red top? Or is he a bit pro-business for the Mirror?
• Owen Bennett, HuffPo: TV’s second favourite Owen might be a UKIP chronicler but he’s more red than purple. Had a stint on the Mirror Online desk at the last election. 
• Joe Watts, Independent: The Indy’s election coverage has been even more slavishly partisan than the Mirror’s. It would be a relief not to work for a publication whose social media interns put “destroyed” in every headline. 
• Paul Farrelly, Labour: What about a George Osborne-style return to journalism for the Observer’s former City editor? Defending a tiny majority and could well lose his seat…
• Clive Lewis, Labour: Possibly won’t be doing much by September. The former chief political correspondent of BBC Look East had a more successful career in the media than politics.
• Seumas Milne, Labour: Could be looking for a job in eight days time. Had a good grounding in writing for a working class audience while labour correspondent for the Guardian. A pol ed for the many, not the few?
• Paul Waugh, HuffPo: He has all the contacts. Unfortunately there is no way the austerity hit Mirror could afford to match the money he is on at HuffPo. He is even better paid than Kevin Maguire…
• Kerry-Anne Mendoza, Canary: She has successfully built an audience for the alt-Left online destination of choice for Cobynistas. Though she would signal the end of the fiercely patriarchal Mirror politics team. 
• Steve Walker, Skwawkbox: If Corbyn clings on and the Mirror really want to help Labour get their message out, they can do no better than Steve from Skwawkbox. The Leader’s Office citizen journalist of choice.

Good luck…

Moustachioed Morning Star eccentric Peter Lazenby used his question at Labour’s manifesto launch to speak truth to power and really hold Jeremy Corbyn to account: “Can anything be done about the shockingly biased media?”. That’s the Morning Star, officially affiliated to the Communist Party…

Meanwhile, the Labour-supporting Mirror asked a real question about Corbyn’s unpopularity and were roundly booed. Corbyn implored his supporters to stop, telling them: “It’s not a cult of personality”. If you have to say it…

Turns out Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire’s comedy double-act extends well beyond their paper review appearances on Sky News. Those hectic media schedules mean they are now happy to share anecdotes for their columns. As you can compare and contrast above, Philip May is not the only thing that readers of the Mail (above left) and Mirror (right) will be doing a double take over. Seems Andy and Kev don’t disagree about everything…

Daily Mirror readers could be forgiven for knowing little of the bitter battle for control of Britain’s biggest trade union Unite. The paper once had a proud history of covering union politics, yet the contest between Len McCluskey and Gerard Coyne barely makes it into the paper – much to the annoyance of leftie hacks and union tankies alike. Unite’s £400,000 contribution towards McCluskey’s swanky London pad was for some reason not deemed newsworthy…

Canary Wharf insiders believe the problem lies with the management’s desire to keep on receiving oodles of Unite cash signed off by Red Len. One Mirror source said:  

“Unite probably hand over between £50,000 and £100,000 a year in term of various types of sponsorship, helping with the wage bill, advertising etc. It is any wonder they don’t write a bad word about McCluskey or the battle to get rid of him?  It’s a travesty and a betrayal of the readers.”

Ros Wynne-Jones’ weekly “Real Britain” column contains numerous plugs for causes and events championed by Unite. At the bottom of her page each week there is a message to say her musings are “in association with Unite the Union”. Hacks at the paper believe the Unite cash could be enough to fund Wynne-Jones’ salary. The Mirror is one of the few papers left with an industrial correspondent. Along with transport and education, Mark Ellis is supposed to cover the unions, though he seems strangely reticent to write about McCluskey at all – despite his strong Unite links. McCluskey’s union was coincidentally on hand to help fund free booze at the Mirror’s Labour conference knees-up…

The few stories about the Unite leadership battle between McCluskey and Coyne that have made it into the Mirror have included the following gems:

• On Monday March 6th Kevin Maguire column’s column revealed: “Unite supremo “Red Len” McCluskey is hot favourite to be re-elected leader of the country’s largest trade union after winning huge support”
• On Thursday March 2nd Mirror readers were told: “Len has 82% Unite backing”
• On Tuesday March 7th the paper quoted McCluskey saying he would “work night and day” to fight for Vauxhall staff whose jobs were in danger

Mirror readers and the union members the paper claims to champion will have to look elsewhere if they want more than the odd pro-Len puff piece…