with Gavin Ellis
I recently completed a review for NZ on Air of the Local Democracy Reporting scheme operating in eight regional newsrooms. The review recommended continuation of the scheme and made 19 sets of findings in relation to its operation. The report is available here: https://www.nzonair.govt.nz/research/review-local-democracy-reporting-2020/
The cover story in YW, the weekend magazine of the DominionPost, The Press and Waikato Times, today is an interview with Jenny Lynch (my wife) on her memoir “Under the Covers”. Here is a link to the story: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/300040872/the-womans-weekly-a-trusted-friend-in-sensible-shoes
UPDATED: White Knight News has become Knightly Views. Nothing changes but the name – a move made necessary by unfortunate associations. The old URL will still bring you to the site but please amend saved links to www.knightlyviews.com
Knightlyviews.com emphatically has no connection with any white supremacist organisation and utterly rejects any the doctrines of hate to which they adhere. The knight image envisaged here is a chivalrous champion and one prepared to ride to the rescue of (in this context) journalism and the principles for which it stands.
The current image depicts a knight slaying a dragon. The previous knightly image on the banner was the white knight from the Lewis chess pieces, carved from walrus ivory in the late 12th or early 13th century (probably in Trondheim, Norway). Such a shame that his good name has been sullied by bigots.
I have always despised white supremacists and now it’s personal.
Their misappropriation of symbols and language has hit me right in the website.
When I started whiteknightnews.com I drew on the subtitle of a book I had written about alternatives to traditional media ownership as ways of sustaining journalism. That book was called Trust Ownership and the Future of News: Media moguls and white knights. I don’t need to tell you about the media moguls, but the white knights were the people who were prepared to ride to the rescue of journalism. Continue reading “A victim of white supremacists”