DAVID NICHOLSON applauds the revival of a joyous production that deals with choirs, competitions and communism
The media needs football just as much as football needs the media — that’s the main theme of Roger Domeneghetti’s book.
From the Back Page to the Front Room brilliantly details the relationship between the beautiful game and the press, something which is often taken for granted.
The moment a game ends reports are uploaded online, with millions reading about a match they’ve just finished watching. But there was a time when Britain’s media didn’t care about the sport and it only received a few lines in newspapers, something which would be unthinkable today.
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
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
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE



