Thread by @gameoldgirl

This is a VERY LONG thread about #journalism #ethics #bias #transphobia #islamophobia and newsroom culture Please stick with it, there are some pretty alarming allegations coming up.
@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @privateeyenews

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews This is a story from @thetimes on Saturday. It is one of ten that have touched on trans issues this month.
@jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @briancathcart

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart There was another trans court case last week – one that is still ongoing – but it has yet to make any newspaper in England or Scotland. Which is strange because it involves possibly the most famous newspaper in the world.
@transmediawatch @StopFundingHate

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate Former Scotland edition night editor @kathy__odonnell is sueing @thetimes for unfair dismissal, claiming she suffered discrimination because the editor and the newsroom culture he oversaw was transphobic.

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud wrote about the opening of the case, in Edinburgh, for @BuzzFeedUK. A couple of pink websites have picked up on it, but no one else.
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@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK I am not going to concern myself with @kathy__odonnell's individual complaint, but with the wider issues raised in the case. Because, be in no doubt, journalism is on trial here.`
@KathViner @OwenJones84 @pressgazette

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 Times editor John Witherow has been accused in open court of being a prejudiced bully who intimidates staff who disagree with him. An editor who sets an agenda and then tasks staff with proving his hypotheses. An editor “allergic” to facts.

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 An editor who brushed aside an award-winning journalist’s “significant misgivings” and insisted that he write a story about a child being “forced into Muslim foster care” whose source was an oligarch friend connected to the case.

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 An editor who stamped on a senior journalist’s foot because he put a quote mark in a headline.

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 His newspaper has been accused in open court – by two separate witnesses - of running a vendetta against transgender people. Of conjuring up and championing moral panic.

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 Of distorting and corrupting journalistic values in pursuit of an agenda that pandered to the editor’s apparent dislike of various minority groups, including Muslims and transgender people.
@miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford These are not my words. They are words presented to open court. They may not hold sway; they may be countered and ultimately discounted as the outpourings of people with vested interests and disaffected former employees. But they should still be reported.

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford The Times is taking this case seriously. The list of witnesses who will appear before the tribunal include:
The editor
The deputy editor
The former deputy editor
The executive editor
The group managing editor
The assistant managing editor
The former assistant managing editor

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford The director of HR editorial
The HR manager Scotland
The chief night editor
The former chief night editor
The Scotland editor
The deputy Scotland editor
The former deputy Scotland editor
The executive editor of the Sunday Times.

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford Imagine if this were a broadcaster on trial – especially the BBC – facing such allegations and bringing out virtually its entire senior management team to fight them? Would the case have gone unnoticed?
@PrivateEyeNews

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford There is still time to catch up. The managing editor is giving evidence tomorrow at 56 Melville Street, Edinburgh. The editor will be on the stand on Friday.
In the meantime, here’s some more of the story so far in quotes from witnesses who have already appeared:

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “There is a disproportionate interest in a minority…there are probably only 24k-30k trans people in the UK, half women…the extent to which The Times and the Sunday Times has written not just about trans people but focused on trans women…may be said to resemble obsession.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “Stories that in any other context would be regarded as minor and certainly not worthy of reporting are fair game when they relate to trans folk.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “The pattern of coverage in the Times and Sunday Times changed markedly in 2017. From half a dozen stories in 2016 there were 130 in 2017 – three a week – almost all negative.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “A notable factor about this tsunami of negative coverage beginning in 2017 was the degree to which editorial standards appeared to be abandoned.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “The two titles were standing up their pieces with largely one-sided opinion from personalities with no genuine qualifications in the subject matter and an axe to grind.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “Clinical or legal experts in the subject did not feature highly and trans views appeared to be treated as suspect, driven by (hinted) ulterior motives and fit for condemnation.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “What shocked trans observers in 2017 was that editorial standards appeared to have been suspended in this sphere. This is underlined when the basis for many stories was later established to be false...

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford ...false interpretation of statistics about trans prisoners and offending. Unbalanced reporting of the nature of the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “Several countries have far more affirmative policies concerning gender variant children and adolescents than in Britain…there is no moral panic to compare with that conjured up in Britain and championed by the Times.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “The Times coverage of these affairs since late 2016 and the beginning of 2017 is of a level sufficient to qualify as a vendetta.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “Looking back over 20 years of transgender equality work, I have never seen any UK employer or media outlet publicly display anywhere near as much hostile prejudice against trans people as The Times or Sunday Times.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “The unrelenting ferocity and frequency of anti-trans articles from The Times and Sunday Times has been unlike any other media coverage of trans people. No other UK tabloid or broadsheet newspaper has ever carried out such an obsessive and hostile campaign against trans equality"

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “I have been shocked at the extent to which the Times and the Sunday Times are willing to use hyperbole, offensive stereotypes, scaremongering and misleading conflation within their anti-trans articles and opinion pieces.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “Inflammatory headlines include: ‘Children sacrificed to appease trans lobby’, ‘Trans ideologists are spreading cod science’ and ‘Labour’s purge of trans-rights heretics’.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “The Times and ST have not provided adequate balance in terms of length and placement of quotes from trans equality organisations relative to quotes from anti-trans campaigners in articles purporting to be news coverage...

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford ...and have not allowed adequate right of reply after publishing hostile opinion pieces.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford [When this witness said he was fed up with being offered a single-line quote to balance an “anti-trans” argument, The Times’s barrister asked why he didn’t refuse to comment at all and “have nothing to do with them”.]

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford "I had a phone call from Andrew Norfolk, who told me he had been handed a story directly by the editor who had himself been given it by an ‘oligarch friend’….Mr Norfolk knew that I was an experienced foster parent as well as former news editor and sought my counsel.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “Mr Norfolk had significant misgivings about the allegations that the child had been mistreated and was unhappy....

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford "...I told Mr Norfolk that given the source of the story and the basic inaccuracies in some of the allegations made that I shared his misgivings and strongly advised him not to proceed. Mr Norfolk replied that the editor was insistent.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “It was clear to me from our conversation that Mr Norfolk was being put under pressure by Mr Witherow to pursue a story where the facts as presented and the reliability of the supposed witnesses was at best highly questionable.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “I see clear correlation and shared disregard for journalistic ethics between Mr Witherow’s pursuit of his hostile agenda towards Muslims with his hostility towards transgender people and those who campaign for trans rights.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “The output of the Times with regard to trans people has been both prodigious and overwhelmingly negative and out of all proportion either to the size of the UK’s trans population of less than one per cent...

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford ...and any reasonable, evidenced debate that arises from the update to the Gender Recognition Act, the participation of trans athletes in sporting competition or in debate about free speech.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “I conclude that Mr Witherow’s prejudices are evident not only in his direction of the output of the Times but extension in the working culture of the paper.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford [This evidence was dismissed by The Times’s barrister as “tosh” based on the witness’s antipathy towards Witherow. The witness replied that he had no such antipathy as their paths had barely crossed in the short time between W becoming editor and the witness leaving the paper.]

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “The standard of proof needed to substantiate a news story seemed to be much lower for certain pet topics. Stories that reinforced certain prejudices seemed to be accepted more readily than others and published despite weaker evidence than would otherwise be required.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “The editor’s drive for compelling, sensational stories could lead to dishonesty.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “Both titles reported very frequently on controversies around transgender people. The common thread was to cover events that cast doubt on the legitimacy of the recognition of transgender people.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “Rarely, if ever, was there coverage of issues of fairness or justice towards transgender people themselves, such as the discrimination, harassment or violence they routinely face. I considered this a form of bias and that the one-sided coverage amounted to a vendetta campaign.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford [This witness, a data journalist, said said he had gone to the editorial conference and offered statistics to mark Trans Day of Remembrance, but was afterwards taken to task by a news editor]

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “I argued the toss and he said that John Witherow was ‘allergic’ to statistics about transgender people. “

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “I was furious. This specifically confirmed the transphobic prejudice I’d detected in the newspaper’s coverage and reinforced the futility of any kind of objection....

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford ...If the editor was allergic to facts, what hope was there for those of us who would have liked to see an honest approach to the issue?”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “A senior investigative journalist on the Sunday Times had worked under Mr Witherow when he was the editor there. He told me Mr Witherow would creep up on him while he was sitting at his desk, clamp his hands on his shoulders, and demand ‘SCOOPS!’ “

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “It could be a practical joke, but this journalist described it as part of a pattern of pressuring behaviour. He was one of several colleagues who described Mr Witherow as a bully.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “The workplace culture of The Times deteriorated after the appointment of John Witherow asEditor in 2013. Mr Witherow’s abrasive management style was perceived as intimidation and bullying by staff that he did not appear to like or who stood up for themselves.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford “Mr Witherow twice physically intimidated me. Once by treading deliberately and heavily on my instep while delivering a reprimand and on another occasion by grabbing the chair in which I was seated and shaking it violently.”

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford So there you have some of the claims put before the court, none of which has been reported by our MSM. As I say, they could all be rejected. The Times started its defence last week and it continues tomorrow.

@thetimes @pressgazette @theguardian @PrivateEyeNews @jjohnjewell @sambrook @stevenjbarnett @ladaprice @docrussjackson @BrianCathcart @TransMediaWatch @StopFundingHate @kathy__odonnell @PatrickStrud @BuzzFeedUK @KathViner @OwenJones84 @miqdaad @misterscoop @Domponsford I’d like to put the other side. But sadly, I cannot attend the hearing as am out of the country. But perhaps there is at least one journalist out there who might start covering this case?
There would be if this were the BBC.
End of thread. Enjoy your lunch.