Guido Fawkes: Ten years ago today Drudge ended the reign of the media...
On this day in 1997, Guido says, blogger Matt Drudge posted a story about Newsweek editors spiking a piece about Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky. “His story ended once and for all the...
View ArticleBBC dominates list naming top political journalists
Total Politics, political blogger Iain Dale’s recently launched magazine, tomorrow publishes its list of top political journalists, as voted for by over 100 MPs, the magazine’s Facebook group of 500,...
View ArticleGuido to introduce community rating system to blog
(or, ‘how many times can we use the word ‘comment’ in one blog post’?) Guido Fawkes got the comments going today with a post that said he is ‘mulling over’ whether to moderate comments over the holiday...
View ArticleFollowing up on Guido Fawkes’ Scottish media speculation
Earlier this week Guido Fawkes published what seemed to be a segment of the minutes from a North Lanarkshire council meeting. The original PDF link on Guido’s blog no longer seems to work. The council...
View ArticleGuido Fawkes: ‘This blog is more profitable than both the Guardian and...
A link to aid (if somewhat modestly) Guido in his quest to be more read than the ‘commentariat’s mediasaurs’. He writes: “April saw a total of over 3.6m pageviews from 1,382,879 visits by 347,994...
View ArticleEvent – Voices Online: Blogging Conference today
Journalism.co.uk is attending the Voices Online: Blogging conference today. Speakers at the event include Mark Jones, global community editor at Reuters; Demotix’s Turi Munthe; political blogger Guido...
View ArticleFor @GuidoFawkes, Twitter is a fad that will disappear; for @MickFealty, it’s...
Twitter is a ‘fad that will soon disappear,’ political blogger Paul Staines said yesterday. Staines, who blogs under the alias Guido Fawkes, told participants at the Voices Online Blogging conference...
View ArticleGlobe and Mail: ‘The model, the blogger and the web giant’
The Globe and Mail looks at the blogger anonymity case in the US sparking debate across the world. The blogger unmasked by Google – as the result of a New York court order last week – is now...
View ArticleJon Bernstein: Sorry Guido, the BBC did for Duncan
Three high-profile political figures mired in controversy, two thrown out of their jobs, one suffering a humiliating demotion – all thanks to internet activists of differing political hues from green...
View ArticleGuido Fawkes: Expect more local newspaper attacks on MPs
Guido Fawkes flags up the Luton & Dunstable Express ‘Get Moran Out Now’ campaign in MP Margaret Moran’s Luton South constituency. Expect to see more of this type of campaigning ‘across the land,’...
View ArticleWho will be the first bloggers to get lobby passes?
So, as Matt Wardman noted on this blog today, bloggers are soon to be allowed into parliament. But who will be the first? Mark Pack says he hears that passes are “on their way” to the Guy News TV team:...
View Article#ijf11: Be accessible, be realistic, Guido Fawkes advises small news outlets
Accessibility and community are key to having an impact as a small online news outlet, political blogger Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes) told the International Journalism Festival this morning. Some of...
View ArticleDaily Mirror publisher faces ‘three to four’ phone-hacking cases, says lawyer
Announcing the launch of an internal review of editorial controls and practices last week, Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, was keen to stress that the review was not connected to recent...
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Guido Fawkes: Lobby briefings should be televised
Political blogger Paul Staines has called for parliamentary lobby briefings to be televised – and called the current system “a cartel”. Giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry this afternoon, Staines,...
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