Re-inventing journalism by way of its spiritual roots

Jenny Taylor  |  Comment
Date posted:  6 Sep 2025
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Re-inventing journalism by way of its spiritual roots

Saving Journalism: The Rise, Demise and Survival of the News by Jenny Taylor.

The “northern muckraker” - as he was known - W.T. Stead, should be a household name in a time of sexual and media mayhem.

Stead was the youngest editor to be appointed in the country when in 1871, he resolved to turn his paper, the Northern Echo, into a pulpit.

He told his journalists to go into the slums and “be Christs." He wanted them to sacrifice ambition and expose poverty – and rape.

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