All posts in Francis Shennan

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Football Business & Media, here I come
October 8, 2013

BEING shortlisted for three university jobs in three months requires becoming practised in ordeal by...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Rumours of my demise… (I’ve been busy being shortlisted for jobs)
September 30, 2013

MARK Twain countered the report of his demise with a statement to the New York...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: The media representation of fathers
July 22, 2013

ANDY Murray is to get a range of Royal Mail stamps to himself next month....

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: What the… is going on?
June 5, 2013

BE warned: I am about to be officially offensive. For broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, has concluded...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: On the issue of taking risks in pursuit of a story
April 14, 2013

TOMORROW, the BBC is scheduled to screen a Panorama report by John Sweeney, on North...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Never mind, there’s sure to be another regulator along in a minute
April 2, 2013

YOU wait ages for a regulator to come along and then three come along at...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: ‘McLeveson’ has overtaken Leveson
March 15, 2013

THE ‘son of Leveson’ has overtaken its parent. The report from the ‘Expert Group on...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Why not an Act of Parliament on Press regulation? But then have you ever read one?
March 14, 2013

IT is literally a right royal screw-up! We are to have a Royal Charter setting...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: People who know the true value of journalism
March 3, 2013

DURING the last two weeks, thanks to Skype, I have been chatting to people from...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: The welcome Defamation Bill and the threat hanging over it
February 24, 2013

A COLD front is expected to move out across the country, emanating from the House...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Starmer’s draft social media guidelines
February 3, 2013

“THE first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Scotland ‘ahead of the game’ as debate continues about under-age sex
January 28, 2013

SO, the Scottish Mail on Sunday “can reveal” that “despite dozens of cases” of sex...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: We need a more sophisticated approach to what is privacy
January 16, 2013

I USED to think I had intelligent friends, but that was before social media. At...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Should the Scots ‘Leveson panel’ hold fire?
January 7, 2013

THIS is the 40th anniversary of Scotland starting the working year a day behind everyone...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Leveson – what might we expect?
November 23, 2012

THIS time next week, we could all be on our way to being shackled by...

In my opinion: Francis Shennan: becoming an effective freelancer
June 30, 2010

SITCOM writer, John Sullivan, was spot on. When his creation, Del Boy, was asked his...