William Kane
Latest articles by William Kane
Prodigal son departs
James Murdoch’s departure from his father’s media empire puts the spotlight once again on its political evolution, writes William Kane
The old and the new
A sharp decline in newspaper print circulation raises questions about the power of the media, argues William Kane
A farewell to empire
The Fox-Disney merger marks a strategic retreat for Rupert Murdoch, argues William Kane
Dirty Des bows out
As Trinity Mirror prepares to buy the Express and Star titles, William Kane looks at the state of the press
Towards a Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation
The disclosure of the BBC list of highest paid ‘stars’ raises the question: what is the corporation for? William Kane investigates
The strange death of liberal media
The Independent is Britain’s first major print casualty of the digital age, and probably not the last, writes William Kane
The great escape
As a line is drawn under the phone-hacking scandal, William Kane looks at the lessons
Meet the new boss ...
Rebekah Brooks has returned to the helm. William Kane welcomes her back
Dissolve the party and elect another
As the Labour leadership contest gets ugly, William Kane begins to worry about the sanity of the bourgeois press
Advertising and the decline of journalism
The Telegraph’s HSBC scandal is an acute case of a malady suffered by all capitalist media, argues William Kane
The limits of journalism
Nick Davies Hack attack: how the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch Chatto and Windus, 2014, pp430, £20