Paul Linford

Here's a front page from the Northants Telegraph that we featured this morning on HoldtheFrontPage as part of our latest round-up of ...

After more than 25 years in journalism, much of it spent covering the political arena, there is little that surprises me any more about the ...

Shortly after Rupert Murdoch sacked him as editor of The Times in 1982, the great newspaperman Harold Evans wrote a book about his experien...

For the past thirty years, the British political establishment has been in thrall to Rupert Murdoch - the 24th member of Tony Blair's Ca...

First it was the News of the World, scrapped by its owner Rupert Murdoch in an attempted damage-limitation exercise amid allegations that it...

I have to say I was gratified to read this story today, and not just because it gave us a great top story on HoldtheFrontPage this morning...

Check back here tomorrow morning for my verdict on the parties manifestos and yesterday's TV leaders' debate - but in the meantime h...

The Sun's quite disgraceful personal attacks on the Prime Minister over his letter to Jacqui Janes understandably swung some public symp...

Slob returns with a reminder that you should never fly too close to The Sun. More on the red-top's little disagreement with Gordon in t...

An emotional day today as I travelled to North Wales to bid farewell to my former regional lobby friend and colleague Ian Craig . A sad oc...

Last Friday I received an email from an old friend in the Press Gallery informing me of the death of Ian Craig, until earlier this year the ...

Sadly, it seems the big media focus in Brighton all week has not been on Gordon's rather good speech (more on that on Saturday) but on T...

I posted this piece earlier today on HoldtheFrontPage's offsite blog The Journalism Hub but I thought I'd cross-post it here as it ...

A warm welcome back to Slob....

Since I took over the editorship of HoldtheFrontPage just over a year ago, my work has drawn me more and more into media reporting. We'...

A few months' back, I ran into a former boss of mine at the Society of Editors' Conference in Bristol. After reminiscing for a few m...

Today's call by the House of Lords' Communications Committee for the introduction of televised lobby briefings inevitably gave me a...

Most journalists have a favourite story, and most people who knew me in my Lobby days would probably assume mine was the infamous Eddie Geor...

Throwaway line spotted in Manchester Evening News report on Ronaldo's car smash earlier today: It has been estimated Ronaldo has spent ...

Nine times out of ten whenever a Prime Minister pays a flying visit to a provincial city to talk about safeguarding thousands of jobs he wo...