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Sky’s Beth Rigby on her bid to get all-woman podcast in politics top ten

Sky’s Beth Rigby on her bid to get all-woman podcast in politics top ten

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Sky News political editor Beth Rigby after being named Political Journalist of the Year at the RTS Journalism Awards on 28 February 2024. Picture: RTS/Richard Kendal Sky News podcast Electoral Dysfunction, which launches today (Friday 1 March), is aiming to “try and attract people in that don’t necessarily live and breathe politics” – host Beth Rigby explains. The channel’s political editor saw an opportunity for something with an all-female line-up (she was previously lambasted for wrongly saying there wasn’t an all-female UK politics podcast and now clarifies “there isn’t one, should I say, in the top ten of the podcast political charts”) and something that gets out of Westminster a bit more (although she didn’t want to sound “hackneyed” about that). Rigby will co-host alongside Labour MP Jess Phillips and former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, who now sits in the Lords. Rigby says they are both “really interesting people to listen to, that have something to say and they’re not going to just tow a party line or spin a line”. In fact, she …

Politico UK reshuffles London Playbook after year of growth

Politico UK reshuffles London Playbook after year of growth

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A screenshot of Politico’s London Playbook newsletter on Monday morning, 5 February 2024. Screenshot: Press Gazette Politico has reshuffled the six-strong team writing its London Playbook daily email newsletters as it prepares for the general election expected in the UK later this year. It follows a strong 2023 for the Axel Springer-owned brand, which has grown revenue and headcount as numerous other news outlets have made deep cuts. Rosa Prince, who has edited Playbook since February 2023, has been promoted to be Politico’s deputy UK editor and will no longer write the agenda-setting morning newsletter, and Playbook reporter Noah Keate has moved to Politico’s live news team. Who’s writing London Playbook? Dan Bloom, who was already on the newsletter team, has been promoted to senior Playbook author, and will write alongside new author additions Sam Blewett and Stefan Boscia. Boscia joins from the Politico Trade team and Blewett from PA Media, where he has been deputy political editor since 2021. Reporter Andrew McDonald will write the Friday edition of the Playbook PM afternoon newsletter, which …

How Sunday Mail journalist defied ‘furious’ denials to expose SNP financial scandal

How Sunday Mail journalist defied ‘furious’ denials to expose SNP financial scandal

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John Ferguson of the Sunday Mail picks up the Politics Journalism award at the British Journalism Awards 2023. Picture: ASV Photography for Press Gazette Sunday Mail political editor John Ferguson said it was “always nice to get vindicated” after the SNP dismissed his revelations about the party’s membership and finance crisis last year as “drivel”. Ferguson was recognised for his work, which likely led at least in part to the resignations of SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, chief executive Peter Murrell and head of communications Murray Foote, when he won the politics prize at the British Journalism Awards in December. Ferguson told Press Gazette the SNP’s “default reaction was just to say that’s not true and brief against the story” – a theme he spotted when reporting other stories about the party as well. However, he and the Sunday Mail team were “confident that we were right and it’s always nice to get vindicated, ultimately”. As a result the “best lesson” he learned from reporting on this story was “if people are telling you that you’re …