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So Felix Salmon set journo-Twitter afire this afternoon with some very grim advice to aspiring journalists; namely, don't become a journalist.
Like Felix, I also get occasional e-mails from aspiring journalists. And my advice is very different; namely, become a journalist! Awhile back I sat down and tried to write up my best guidance for how to do that. It's incomplete, and imperfect, and biased towards my own experience, but in the hopes that it's useful to somebody, somewhere, here it is.
An urgent campaign has been launched in the UK for a "freedom of expression" law to protect confidential journalists', MPs' and lawyers' phone and communications records being secretly snooped on by police.
Senior editors and lawyers condemned as "wholly inadequate" safeguards put forward in a code of practice by the home secretary, Theresa May, to meet concerns over the police use of surveillance powers linked to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa).
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The National Union of Journalists has told parliament that police misuse of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to snoop on journalists and their sources is "systemic and institutionalised" and is doing "irreparable damage" to the industry.
Michelle Stanistreet, the NUJ's general secretary, told the home affairs select committee that police were routinely bypassing the need for judicial scrutiny to discover journalistic sources by using Ripa to go through phone records and other data.
Lawyers acting for an Icelandic interior ministry official are asking for two journalists to be jailed because they mistakenly named her as a target in a police investigation.
In June, the journalists - Jón Bjarki Magnússon and Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson -identified Þórey Vilhjálmsdóttir, a political assistant to Iceland's interior minister, as a government leaker known as "employee B". They were wrong.
The National Union of Journalists has told parliament that police misuse of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to snoop on journalists and their sources is "systemic and institutionalised" and is doing "irreparable damage" to the industry.
Michelle Stanistreet, the NUJ's general secretary, told the home affairs select committee that police were routinely bypassing the need for judicial scrutiny to discover journalistic sources by using Ripa to go through phone records and other data.
Jeremy Bowen, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, has said the threat from Islamic State(Isis) has made "even the most enterprising and daring reporters" think hard about whether working in Syria is worth the risk.
Bowen, the BBC's Middle East editor, described the conflict in Syria as "extraordinarily difficult and at times dangerous" for journalists.
Travelling to Ethiopia to investigate a story was a huge risk and one I will certainly take again.
The dream of being a travelling journalist is one that would appeal to most wannabe hacks, for me; it really was just that, a dream. The idea of covering exciting stories and working in hostile environments was one that I never thought could happen. In April of this year that dream turned into a reality.
