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Jane Martinson

Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnist

April 2025

  • Adolescence. Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller in Adolescence. Cr. Courtesy of Ben Blackall/Netflix © 2024

    Yes, we should celebrate Adolescence – but it comes at a cost to the UK TV industry

    Jane Martinson
    This vital drama has British actors, a British writer, but Netflix funding. Here’s why that’s a huge problem, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

February 2025

  • Tim Westwood at the decks with laptop that reads 'Westwood'

    The BBC wanted Black listeners and turned to Tim Westwood, white son of a vicar. A parable for our times

    Jane Martinson
  • Rupert Murdoch wearing a suit

    ‘We’re clearly heading towards collapse’: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang

January 2025

  • Prince Harry

    A day to mark Prince Harry’s historic victory over Rupert Murdoch – and to survey the awful toll on public life

    Jane Martinson
    The prince was right to fight – and also right about the need to stop good journalism being sullied by the bad. Trust has been severely damaged, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

December 2024

  • bbc news on a mac

    As a media columnist, even I found myself turning away from the news in 2024. But we can do things differently

    Jane Martinson
    More people are avoiding ‘boring’ or ‘depressing’ news for scrolling social media, but accurate reporting has never been more vital, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

November 2024

  • Allison Pearson at the Hay festival in 2018critic and commentator, at the 2018 Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts.<br>P3RM3N ALLISON PEARSON, welsh writer, novelist, newspaper columnist, critic and commentator, at the 2018 Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts.

    Anatomy of a non-scandal: the defence of Allison Pearson reveals how ‘free speech’ has been weaponised

    Jane Martinson
    The Telegraph journalist sent a deeply offensive and inaccurate tweet. Yet she has won the support of a swath of newspapers, an ex-PM – and Elon Musk, writes Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

September 2024

  • Huw Edwards after sentencing at Westminster magistrates’ court, London, 16 September 2024

    After the Huw Edwards scandal, a tip for the BBC – your stars are not Gods: stop treating them like that

    Jane Martinson
  • Kate Lamble

    Why the BBC making one journalist redundant matters – for our media and democracy

    Jane Martinson

August 2024

  • Huw Edwards presenting BBC News on 13 June 2022.

    A powerful man given free rein and indulged, Huw Edwards is proof the BBC hasn’t changed

    Jane Martinson
    The spotlight has fallen on how the broadcaster handled the scandal, but the bigger picture is the god-like status it gives to high-profile men

July 2024

  • Copies of the Daily Telegraph for sale in a supermarket

    Battle resumes to take control of Telegraph – and the Tory soul

    After year in ownerless limbo, Conservative party’s bible goes up for sale in second auction next week

May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak appears in a GB News forum in County Durham on 12 February 2024.

    The rightwing media aim to save Britain from Labour. They’re also desperate to save themselves

    Jane Martinson
    None of them are enthusiastic about Starmer or Sunak. And all are anxious about what comes next, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

April 2024

  • NGN privacy case<br>PABest Hugh Grant arrives at the Rolls Buildings in central London for the conclusion of News Group Newspapers (NGN) phone hacking hearing. NGN, publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News Of The World, is bringing a bid to have claims by the Duke of Sussex and Hugh Grant over alleged unlawful information gathering at The Sun thrown out. Picture date: Thursday April 27, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Hacking. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire

    It’s sad that Hugh Grant v Rupert Murdoch won’t go to court, but good can come of it

    Jane Martinson
    The media mogul has taken these hacking allegations out of the public arena. Use this moment to craft reforms, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

March 2024

  • Nick Hitchon, then aged six, in 1964’s Seven Up!

    Seven Up! changed British TV – and how we see ourselves. Here’s why the series is still unmissable

    Jane Martinson
    The Up documentaries, voted the most influential TV show of the past 50 years, shone a unique light on our national character, says the BPG’s Jane Martinson

February 2024

  • Neil Oliver live on GB News.

    How can GB News get away with peddling ‘turbo cancer’ conspiracy theories? Only Ofcom knows

    Jane Martinson
    It smacks of political bias to cite freedom of expression when dismissing complaints about a presenter’s anti-vaxxer rants, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

January 2024

  • UK High Court finds Prince Harry was phone hacked by Mirror Group Newspapers<br>epa11030899 Daily Mirror newspapers are displayed at a store in London, Britain, 15 December 2023. The UK High Court has found that Britain's Prince Harry was phone hacked by Mirror Group Newspapers in the phone hacking trial. Prince Harry was awarded £164, 600 for damages by the court. EPA/ANDY RAIN

    From bot reporters to the loss of a legendary editor, the Daily Mirror is hanging by a thread

    Jane Martinson
    In a rightwing, plutocrat-dominated media landscape, we can’t afford to lose it - especially in an election year, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

December 2023

  • An edition of the Daily Telegraph newspaper is seen on a shop counter at the newsagents in London.

    Today in Focus
    The Barclays and the battle for the Telegraph

    Politicians and some of the world’s richest men are contesting who will control the newspaper titles in the future. Jane Martinson reports
  • Piers Morgan speaks to the press outside his home

    The press faces a moment of peril. It can’t just shrug and move on

    Jane Martinson
    Early responses to the Prince Harry verdict suggest that lessons have not been learned
  • Samir Shah, who is to replace Richard Sharp as the next chair of the BBC, in London on 13 December 2023.

    The panel
    Troublesome talent and meddling ministers. As BBC chair, Samir Shah, here’s what you’ve got to do

    Armando Iannucci, Jane Martinson, Pat Younge, Marcus Ryder, Sophie Chalk, Patrick Barwise, Peter York and Joe Lycett
    Our expert panel on how the BBC should deal with perfidious governments and a hostile press – all while continuing to engage the public

November 2023

  • Man holding a copy of the Daily Telegraph

    Government scrutiny of the Telegraph sale is a good thing – even if it’s for the wrong reasons

    Jane Martinson
    Intervention over a UAE-backed bid is welcome, but it’s unlikely to signal a new era of media-ownership transparency, writes Jane Martinson

October 2023

  • Daily Telegraph Brexit Day newspaper front page headline headlines London England UK 2020<br>2ATDPNP Daily Telegraph Brexit Day newspaper front page headline headlines London England UK 2020

    Why own a newspaper in 2023? Ask the very rich men trying to buy the Telegraph

    Jane Martinson
    With debts of £1bn, this isn’t some ordinary financial asset. The desire to own the papers says more about power than profit, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson
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