media

We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 3, Doli Capax (Capable of ‘Evil’)

At 10 years old, England and Wales has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the world. In the third episode of this investigative series, we challenge the ideology of punishment over prevention.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 2, Can’t Meet His Needs

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 1, Hurt people, hurt people

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Cable Community News

‘People want to understand their world’: 5 lessons from 2024’s big journalism study

Research has claimed the UK has 'five years to save local journalism'. So we've taken a look at the Reuters Institute's 2024 Digital News Report, which surveys people across the globe, to find some glimmers of hope.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Cable Community News

Does the Bristol Cable have an editor? Not really…

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
A person with a microphone sat on a sofa wearing trainers and a velvet jumpsuit.

Podcasts

Cable Live: Moya Lothian-Maclean discusses the future of campaigning journalism

George Colwey Priyanka Raval
George Colwey and Priyanka Raval

Investigations

Transparency matters: why is Bristol City Council failing on freedom of information?

Cable research shows that Bristol is worse than many other major cities at handling citizens’ FOI requests. Why is this a problem – and will the end of the mayoral system next year bring more open local government in the city?

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Voices

‘I didn’t come to the UK for some dream – leaving my country became the only option left’

A Turkish journalist who had to flee her country to escape the repressive government shares what her life in the UK is like as she waits for her asylum claim to be processed.

Shakuntala Sumanasekera

Cable Community News

The new fake news: how much of a threat does AI pose to journalism?

An investigation has revealed that several stories published by a new local news site were made up. So were the journalists who ‘wrote’ them.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Cable Community News

Illustration showing need for more diversity in the media (credit: @laurence_ware_design)

We’re working to diversify the Cable team. Let’s start with our freelancer base

The Cable exists to challenge the structure of the media, but we are not representative enough of our city. Here’s what we’re doing to change things.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Why Reach PLC’s Bristol Live journalists are striking, with National Union of Journalists’ Paul Breeden

A thousand journalists are taking strike action across the country at Reach PLC, one of the big three conglomerates that dominate the regional news market and who own Bristol Live.

Aphra Evans Adam Cantwell-Corn Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
Aphra Evans, Adam Cantwell-Corn and Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Cable Community News

Bristol’s mayor shouldn’t cherry pick which journalists attend his briefings

Local democracy reporters have been banned from attending Marvin Rees’ press conferences, sparking a boycott from local media outlets.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable
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