Our challenge to mainstream writers: Talking over minorities isn’t a ‘crisis of free speech’

Raf welcomes back our awards for racist and bigoted journalism, use #TheTrashies to nominate before 29th October 2018 Read More

The Trashies winners to be announced at Byline Festival 2-4 June

The Trashies – think a news media equivalent to Hollywood’s Razzies – were created because we believe in the importance of a free, fair and representative press. These awards challenge journalism that’s lazy, bigoted, ill-researched and misinforming. It’s easy for writers to avoid reading the comments and to swerve their critics on Twitter but we… Read More

#TheTrashies: Challenging the media’s misinformed consensus

by Maya Goodfellow Last week I had one of those moments of self-doubt, the kind I imagine crash over writers who don’t fit into the media mould (read: white, middle or upper class, and usually male) all too often. One of my friends helped to nudge me onto firmer ground by sending me a famous… Read More