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‘Offensive, unacceptable and wrong’– C4 News responds to Kelvin MacKenzie...

Channel 4 News has hit back at former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie over his “offensive” comments about hijab-wearing reporter Fatima Manji. MacKenzie questioned in his Sun column yesterday whether it...

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Kelvin MacKenzie and the hijab-wearing newsreader: Freedom of speech means...

Kelvin MacKenzie must be pleased with the backlash against his latest Sun column, questioning whether a hijab-wearing reporter should present Channel 4 News on the day it reported on a massacre in Nice...

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C4’s Fatima Manji to Kelvin MacKenzie: ‘I pi**ed on your ambitions to force...

Channel 4 News presenter Fatima Manji has hit back at Kelvin MacKenzie’s “ill informed, irresponsible and malevolent” Sun column about her wearing of the hijab. MacKenzie questioned yesterday whether...

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‘Bigoted fellow’ Kelvin MacKenzie ‘put in his place’ by minister over column...

Commons Speaker John Bercow has labelled Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie a “bigoted fellow” over a controversial article he wrote about a TV reporter wearing a hijab. The column – which questioned why...

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C4 News presenter Fatima Manji makes IPSO complaint against Sun claiming...

Channel 4 News journalist Fatima Manji has complained to press regulator IPSO over a Sun column which questioned whether it was appropriate for her to present the news following the Nice terrorist...

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Kelvin MacKenzie mulls Ofcom impartiality complaint against Channel 4 over...

Kelvin MacKenzie has defended his column questioning whether a newsreader wearing a hijab should have presented Channel 4 coverage of the Nice terrorist attacks. In his latest Sun column he has pointed...

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Kelvin MacKenzie says Sun readers ‘100-1 in my favour’ over column comparing...

An unrepentant Kelvin MacKenzie has said Sun readers were “100-1 in my favour” over his column comparing footballer Ross Barkley – who has Nigerian heritage – with a gorilla in a zoo. In a diary piece...

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Bizarre: The Sun’s career-making (and breaking) showbiz column turns 40

As the The Sun’s showbiz column Bizarre turns 40, Press Gazette spoke to editors past and present to get the inside scoop on Fleet Street’s biggest gossip column. Among other things we found out: why...

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MacKenzie, Murdoch and the hunt for tabloid gold in the digital era

Tabloid newspapers were not too long ago viewed as reliable cash cows for media moguls like Rupert Murdoch. News Group Newspapers, Murdoch’s UK tabloid arm incorporating The Sun and News of the World,...

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Kelvin MacKenzie: The Sun has surrendered to ‘lefty activists putting the...

I was told last week that the management of News UK had looked at the circulation decline of the Sun over the year, then threw in the startling decline in the paper’s advertising revenue, and worked...

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