The financial challenges facing the news industry have not stopped a takeover frenzy in the last couple of years, from the Observer in London to the LA Times as well as the almost never-ending saga of...
Jane Martinson
Jane Martinson is an author, academic and journalist. Her book on the secretive Barclay brothers, You May Never See Us Again – the Barclay Dynasty: A story of Survival, Secrecy and Succession, was published in October 2023 and selected as an FT business book of the year and Guardian book of the week.
She is Professor of Financial Journalism at City, University of London, and a regular columnist for the Guardian. She also appears widely on radio and television talking about the media, business and women. A member of several journalism boards, she was for many years chair of Women in Journalism and still sits on the advisory board. In July 2025, Jane was appointed to the Board of the The Scott Trust, the sole shareholder of Guardian Media Group.
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia exposed corruption and wrongdoing in Malta before she was assassinated by those she sought to bring to justice. Her death resulted in major criminal trials and a book...
Trust in public institutions, banks and the media is dwindling. Where does that leave financial journalism, 10 years after the 2008 financial crisis? And why does this matter more than ever?
The UK's tabloid press have long disliked the EU - with stories focused on bendy bananas, sugar mountains and an unaccountable leadership. How much impact did this coverage have on the country's re...
On the difficulties of navigating the Church and State separation of editorial and commercial, as shown by recent allegations about The Daily Telegraph and HSBC. In short, do media organisations large...
Men dominate the news headlines and bylines so much that the media has been described by a British MP as an 80/20 society with women in the minority. What’s more, women are far more likely to be p...
As print revenues and circulations fall, media groups are looking for alternative revenue streams to safeguard their future. One of the most popular is the desire to build communities of interest am...
Women and the media Jill Abramson is the editor of The New York Times. But the editors of leading Western newspapers are still predominantly middle-aged white men, while women account for just a th...
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