By Paul Connew

The New Day editor Alison Phillips mysteriously failed to show up for a scheduled and high-profile debate organised by the Media Society at London’s City University on Wednesday evening. The subject of the event: ‘Newsprint – it ain’t over yet!’

Organisers were baffled and the sellout event delayed in the hope that the editor of Britain’s newest national title would arrive as planned. But it finally went ahead without her, with chair Roy Greenslade, professor of journalism at the university, Media Guardian columnist and former Daily Mirror editor, breaking the news to the audience mid-debate that he’d received a text from Read full story ›

Source: The Drum