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A journalist died this week in a small country, not so very much larger than ours; murdered by a car bomb for telling the truth — according to her grieving family. What is truth? Is it those mundane facts of consequences that are embedded in law, su...

Journalists around the world are following with great interest what is happening in America, with President Donald Trump openly declaring that the media there are against the country. Amazingly, a good portion of his support base continues to support...

Morgan Beckles never considered a career in journalism. But the psychology student has a new-found appreciation for the discipline after getting a taste during the 2017 General Election. Her research on the parties’ platforms received an overwhelmi...

A veteran television and radio personality has been remembered as a “wonderful” person and a pioneer for women. Marlene B-Landy, who worked in broadcasting for ZFB and ZBM for more than four decades, died at the age of 84 last Thursday. A spokeswoman...

We will be the first to acknowledge that reporters can be persistent — sometimes even obnoxious — in asking questions. But that, at least in the United States, has not generally been considered a crime. So it is more than a little troubling that a re...

Roger Daltrey of The Who sang it with a full-throated scream in 1971: “We won’t get fooled again!” And yet, we still do. Oh, do we ever. Remember this one from the presidential campaign? The “news story” that spread the lie that Pope Francis had endo...

The media’s job in strengthening the role of the Public Accounts Committee was among the agenda items for an overseas forum attended by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert, chairman of Bermuda’s PAC. The two-day conference’s discussion points were put forwar...

Without the media, imperfect as they may be, many terrible injustices against men, women and children would be for ever swept under the carpet by brutally murderous regimes that cling to power by crushing resistance with any method at their disposal....

There is an old saying that a lie travels much faster than the truth. Today, with massive modern communication gadgets sweeping the globe, very little takes place without others thousands of miles away being informed instantly — often with pictures a...

Since the presidential election last week, Facebook’s role in policing fake news on its site has become a very hot topic. And it should be. Throughout the election, Facebook’s behaviour has exposed what seems to be a great contradiction at its heart....

What do you do when you have been given a death sentence? Do you live your remaining time to the fullest or do you spend that time taking long-shot chances at a cure? No, this is not a column about cancer. It is a column about businesses whose core i...

The Media Council of Bermuda’s new executive officer has been named as Don Burgess. Mr Burgess, the former deputy editor of The Bermuda Sun, will handle unresolved disputes with media outlets in his new post. He succeeds Jeremy Deacon, who took on t...