How to Speak Truth to Power

Last year, the Guardian ran an entire advertising campaign with the tag line ‘Not For Sale’. It put up billboards in the streets pointing out it was ‘reader funded not billionaire backed’.

So, why would it seek to sell off a huge chunk of the organisation and 70+ journalists….to a financially precarious start-up financed by a bunch of VCs and billio... See more

killing journalists is what happens when every other attempt to silence them has failed. And these are deadly times.

This is a playbook. Journalists are not just facing litigation and lawsuits. It’s that plus online abuse, doxxing, threats, online mobs. And what we see is that these two things enable and amplify each other. And it’s a weapon that we’ve seen being overwhelming directed at women journalists. It’s what happened to Maria Ressa, the Nobel Prize winnin... See more

The alliance of Trump and Elon Musk is an alliance of a type the world has never seen before. It’s the blending and merging of state power with a global communication platform. This is the kind of propaganda machine that Joseph Goebbels couldn’t even dream of.

There is a curtain of darkness that is falling across the world, a blanket of fake news and lies is smothering the truth and we know where that leads. We simply cannot afford to let this happen.

At stake is not just the future of a 240 year old newspaper, The Observer, the Sunday sister of the Guardian, it’s also the integrity and values of the Guardian and the future media landscape of a fractured and dangerous world.

I’ve always believed what I was told, that the Guardian was different to other news organisations. It’s owned, not by a bil... See more

didn’t do this lightly. But I was supported through my long-running court case by Guardian and Observer readers (more than 30,000 of them) and I felt like I owed a duty of confidence to them. To keep quiet in the face of what we, the journalists, believe is an existential threat to our journalism and which they pay to support felt…dishonest.

the freedom of the press is precious and fragile and when a news organisation dies, it leaves a gaping hole.