Roy Greenslade, board member of the British Journalism highlighted its importance as a journal in December 2012 that in its founding issue, then editor, Geoffrey Goodman said: "No party political axes to grind; no vested interests to protect; no preconceived views - except the conviction that good journalism is not an elitist concern, and that Britain deserves higher standards than it is now getting." He would publish an additional article in 2015 saying: "It is the one place where journalists and academics can come together to assess the editorial output and methodology - the events, the ethics, the problems, the personalities - in a readable format." In 2003, the former chairman, Bill Hagerty wrote for the Independent about nearly being nearly hoaxed by Joe Flynn as the then assistant editor in his book on the 100th anniversary of the
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