While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
YOUR local newspaper should be the community watchdog, celebrating the achievements of its readers, campaigning for local causes and holding local politicians and businesses to account.
But the industry is in dire straits, titles are closing and merging and independent owners are selling out so the majority of local newspapers are now owned by just three companies — Newsquest, which is part of a United States conglomerate, Reach Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press.
Staffing levels have been repeatedly slashed. Journalists are working in extremely stressful conditions, often in offices miles away from the areas they are supposed to be covering.
The once beating heart of British journalism was undone by technological change, union battles and Murdoch’s 1986 Wapping coup – leaving London the only major capital without a press club, says TIM GOPSILL
As advertising drains away, newsrooms shrink and local papers disappear, MIKE WAYNE argues that the market model for news is broken – and that public-interest alternatives, rooted in democratic accountability, are more necessary than ever
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR


