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Back in 2010 a series of suicides hit the headlines at Foxconn, major contractor in China to Apple and a number of other western technology firms. The company is accused of having a ‘stringent military-like culture’ with repetitive work, heavy surveillance and long hours. They had to put up ‘suicide nets’ to stop workers jumping… Continue Reading →
Is much tougher press treatment of big companies becoming a surprise consequence of the much-publicised Leveson enquiry into tabloid misdemeanours? This week we have seen the Independent and others lay into Bell Pottinger over alleged lobbying influence and ‘dark arts’, the Mail leading the charge over the HSBC subsidiary which may have over-enthusiastically sold care-home… Continue Reading →
How has tabloid journalism changed? The News of the World is dead, and in the ‘states the notorious supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer is a shadow of its former self. I’m in the US at the moment and have just heard Iain Calder speak at a conference. He’s the Scot who edited the Enquirer when… Continue Reading →
Tom Maddocks is a former BBC2 'Money Programme' reporter and is recognised as one of the UK's leading media training experts – as quoted in the Sunday Times, FT, The Independent, etc. [Read More …]
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