Following the appointment of Sir David Clementi as the new chairman of the BBC, Raymond Snoddy wonders whether the former banker needs to do a bit of extra homework before sinking his teeth into the job.

There are plenty of press scandals in need of urgent attention – but none of them involve increased regulation backed by the sort of legislation that would please dictators everywhere.

A new journalistic (and psychiatric) specialism is being created before our eyes: analysing the tweets of Donald Trump.

While many commentators have lamented the year gone by, Raymond Snoddy argues it wasn’t all doom and gloom for media in 2016. Here’s why.

Rupert Murdoch never forgets, never gives up and is not in the least put off by the inevitable furore that will result from a renewed bid for Sky, writes Raymond Snoddy.

They are produced in the same building and share the same owner – but the difference between the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday is remarkably different, as Brexit has shown.

ITV just can’t help itself, writes Raymond Snoddy – entertainment always takes priority over serious peak-time news programmes.

Channel 4 has managed to achieve the alchemy of turning analogue pounds into digital pounds – how can newspapers conjure the same trick, asks Raymond Snoddy.

The only possible way to tackle the problem of fake news stories circulating around the world is for Google and Facebook to recognise finally what they are: media organisations.

The words of Trump were checked and analysed, the daily lie count was tabulated, and serious stories were published that undermined his credibility. And yet it didn’t make a blind bit of difference. Why?