Simon Hinde
@simonhinde.bsky.social
Academic, Journalist, director of journalism and publishing programme London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Co-chair Scarabeus Aerial Theatre
Exciting stuff from the Fence. Great prizes but also (more importantly imo) funding great journalism.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Exciting stuff from the Fence. Great prizes but also (more importantly imo) funding great journalism.
The news cycle isn’t a natural phenomenon, like the weather. It’s a set of decisions made by people like (say) Paul Brand, the UK editor of ITV News. If a story is worth more than a single day’s coverage on ITV News, the UK editor of ITV News is presumably well placed to ensure that happens.
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The news cycle isn’t a natural phenomenon, like the weather. It’s a set of decisions made by people like (say) Paul Brand, the UK editor of ITV News. If a story is worth more than a single day’s coverage on ITV News, the UK editor of ITV News is presumably well placed to ensure that happens.
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🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨
Attention, emerging photojournalists!
@propublica.org is looking for our latest photojournalism fellow. It's a two-year deal with full salary and benefits. Deadline to apply is Dec. 1.
All the details and application here👇
Attention, emerging photojournalists!
@propublica.org is looking for our latest photojournalism fellow. It's a two-year deal with full salary and benefits. Deadline to apply is Dec. 1.
All the details and application here👇
Photojournalism Fellowship
New York City, United States
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October 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨
Attention, emerging photojournalists!
@propublica.org is looking for our latest photojournalism fellow. It's a two-year deal with full salary and benefits. Deadline to apply is Dec. 1.
All the details and application here👇
Attention, emerging photojournalists!
@propublica.org is looking for our latest photojournalism fellow. It's a two-year deal with full salary and benefits. Deadline to apply is Dec. 1.
All the details and application here👇
This is a remarkable and fascinating story about AI and ‘content’.
What started as a pitch about warring chicken shops written by a chatbot led me from Chicago to Nairobi in search of a rogue AI reporter #AI #ChatGPT #DeepSeek #LLM
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Mass hallucinations: In search of the rogue AI reporters
How a pitch about warring London chicken shops led Steve Dinneen on a journey from Chicago to Kenya in search of a rogue AI reporter
www.cityam.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is a remarkable and fascinating story about AI and ‘content’.
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“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
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"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture
August 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture
“These days, if you say you’re English…”
August 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
“These days, if you say you’re English…”
Two strong pieces on Asif Aziz today. This from @londonermag.bsky.social
Read about the “serial pub killer”
Companies linked to Asif Aziz have been buying up and shutting down some of the capital’s most beloved boozers. Now, we’ve mapped them. www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-th...
Companies linked to Asif Aziz have been buying up and shutting down some of the capital’s most beloved boozers. Now, we’ve mapped them. www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-th...
Exclusive: The billionaire developer closing London's pubs
Companies linked to Asif Aziz have been buying up and shutting down some of the capital’s most beloved boozers. Now, we’ve mapped them.
www.the-londoner.co.uk
August 16, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Two strong pieces on Asif Aziz today. This from @londonermag.bsky.social
Collective bargaining has been bad for academics - our pay rises are effectively capped at what the most financially challenged uni can afford. Universities (like mine) that could afford to pay more hide behind the national agreement - particularly as UCU is such a toothless and poorly run union.
Staff at universities outside collective bargaining will again receive higher pay rise compared with those whose wages are decided nationally - 2% at Imperial and Nottingham Trent, 2.5% at Birmingham City, 4% at QUB www.timeshighereducation.com/news/wages-r... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Wages rise faster at universities outside national bargaining
Institutions not participating in annual negotiations again reward staff with more generous pay increases, with some paying double what employers have offered collectively
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Collective bargaining has been bad for academics - our pay rises are effectively capped at what the most financially challenged uni can afford. Universities (like mine) that could afford to pay more hide behind the national agreement - particularly as UCU is such a toothless and poorly run union.
Recently completed a project with 70 @lcclondon.bsky.social students, producing a magazine about food and food culture in Southwark.
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Serving Southwark: Community, culture and food access in LCC’s new student magazine
Journalism and Publishing students at London College of Communication (LCC) have launched Southwark Food Magazine, a print publication celebrating food and culture across Southwark.
www.arts.ac.uk
August 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Recently completed a project with 70 @lcclondon.bsky.social students, producing a magazine about food and food culture in Southwark.
www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/lon...
www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/lon...
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London Centric’s average payment time from receipt of a freelancer’s invoice is currently eight minutes.
And it’s a tiny operation but also it means people might actually want to work with you again in future? And freelancers talk to each other and say you pay promptly so pitch better ideas.
And it’s a tiny operation but also it means people might actually want to work with you again in future? And freelancers talk to each other and say you pay promptly so pitch better ideas.
Freelance journalists must be paid promptly and fairly for their work.
The UK government's consultation on poor payment practices offers an opportunity to right the wrongs of our industry.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/freelan...
The UK government's consultation on poor payment practices offers an opportunity to right the wrongs of our industry.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/freelan...
Freelance journalists given rare chance to 'right wrongs' of unfair payment practices
Govt consultation provides opportunity for freelance journalists to improve their pay terms. The NUJ's Tim Dawson explains.
pressgazette.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
London Centric’s average payment time from receipt of a freelancer’s invoice is currently eight minutes.
And it’s a tiny operation but also it means people might actually want to work with you again in future? And freelancers talk to each other and say you pay promptly so pitch better ideas.
And it’s a tiny operation but also it means people might actually want to work with you again in future? And freelancers talk to each other and say you pay promptly so pitch better ideas.
Finally someone has had the courage to speak out.
Why do I hate umbrellas? How long have you got? | Adrian Chiles
Why do I hate umbrellas? How long have you got? | Adrian Chiles
The first drop of rain and out they come, getting in your way and threatening your eyes. We need a law to control the nasty, pointy, dangerous things, writes Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Finally someone has had the courage to speak out.
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Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.
www.404media.co
July 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
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this shit drives me nuts. if someone has only ever written op-eds and columns, they're not a journalist! Writer, essayist, columnist, yep. Journalist, no. It would be like calling someone who's never written a book an author.
![Bari Weiss bio reads "is an American journalist. She was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017[1] and an op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times from 2017 to 2020.[2] Since March 1, 2021, she has worked as a regular columnist for German daily newspaper Die Welt.[3] Weiss founded the media company The Free Press (formerly Common Sense) and hosts the podcast Honestly.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lf44yuqfyi3ilxxfqudsqqc2/bafkreibk77vr6b34nupe2eatsqxgpsg7k6qm4ccufk6sf2glhe4zxfsmsm@jpeg)
February 27, 2025 at 4:19 AM
this shit drives me nuts. if someone has only ever written op-eds and columns, they're not a journalist! Writer, essayist, columnist, yep. Journalist, no. It would be like calling someone who's never written a book an author.
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The subject of this piece by @jim.londoncentric.media is basically a character out of Napoleon of Notting Hill by GK Chesterton open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
The anti-LTN protestor who sat on top of a lamppost for six hours
Plus: A £700,000 home in a converted garage in Hackney, how to quickly stop illegal fundraisers in London, steak price increases, and more shenanigans in London Labour.
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July 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The subject of this piece by @jim.londoncentric.media is basically a character out of Napoleon of Notting Hill by GK Chesterton open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
I’ve long thought that Substack reveals the importance of editors and @nickfthilton.bsky.social demonstrates this by letting a professional editor loose on one of his posts.
Today's Substack is, in a way, about how bad my writing is (and, by extension, how self-publishing is degrading a lot of core skills of journalism as a practice). With particular thanks to @annaleszkie.bsky.social for getting her red pen out.
The Journalist vs Journalism
Are newsletters and podcasts killing the art of journalism?
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July 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I’ve long thought that Substack reveals the importance of editors and @nickfthilton.bsky.social demonstrates this by letting a professional editor loose on one of his posts.
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BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT:
“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.
"They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "
“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.
"They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "
July 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT:
“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.
"They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "
“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.
"They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "
The elaborate prudishness of the New York Times.
July 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The elaborate prudishness of the New York Times.
Reach come in for a lot of justified criticism so congrats to this reporter and to Reach for vocally backing him up. Just a shame the article is largely obscured by ad. It’s not a pop-up either, it’s just squatting over the text.
July 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reach come in for a lot of justified criticism so congrats to this reporter and to Reach for vocally backing him up. Just a shame the article is largely obscured by ad. It’s not a pop-up either, it’s just squatting over the text.
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He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
Police officer in the Clifton Bridge case giving some useful tips on how to get away with murder on BBC News.
July 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Police officer in the Clifton Bridge case giving some useful tips on how to get away with murder on BBC News.
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Essential, horrifying reading on.ft.com/4m0enBH
Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
[FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
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July 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Essential, horrifying reading on.ft.com/4m0enBH
Good to see @londoncentric.media getting their teeth into the knife crime chuggers that we meet outside Tube stations. I've often wondered who they are and if it's a scam and now I know. Perfect, simple formula for local journalism.
July 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Good to see @londoncentric.media getting their teeth into the knife crime chuggers that we meet outside Tube stations. I've often wondered who they are and if it's a scam and now I know. Perfect, simple formula for local journalism.
In the Telegraph boilerplate ‘London has fallen’ piece, I have some scepticism about the author’s claim to have interviewed ‘several’ and ‘many’ homeless people, all of whom told her an identical tale that conveniently fits her narrative.
July 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
In the Telegraph boilerplate ‘London has fallen’ piece, I have some scepticism about the author’s claim to have interviewed ‘several’ and ‘many’ homeless people, all of whom told her an identical tale that conveniently fits her narrative.