Perhaps one of the most important talks I heard when training to become a professional journalist at Cardiff University was by the well respected professor and national journalist Ian Hargreaves. His lecture focussed on the ethics of being a reporter and the pitfalls of shining a light into the affairs of those who would rather they remain in the dark.
In his book Truth or Dare Hargeaves argues our core duty is to “hold power to account and to provide the resources of information and opinion upon which
