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In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: The joys of freelancing
October 15, 2013
“Half an hour after getting to Intercourse I was in Paradise.” That’s my favourite of…
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In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Football Business & Media, here I comeOctober 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 fathersJuly 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 storyApril 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 minuteApril 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 LevesonMarch 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 journalismMarch 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 itFebruary 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 guidelinesFebruary 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 sexJanuary 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 privacyJanuary 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: Is WikiLeaks journalism?August 24, 2012
SO, now we have a Scottish angle to the Julian Assange case. To London, it...
In my opinion: Francis Shennan: becoming an effective freelancerJune 30, 2010
SITCOM writer, John Sullivan, was spot on. When his creation, Del Boy, was asked his...
