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The Canary (website)

March 09, 2024

The Canary is a left-wing news website based in the United Kingdom. While focusing on UK political affairs, it also has a "Global" section, a satire section ("Off the Perch"), and "Science", "Environment", and "Health" sections.[3] Founded in 2015 by Kerry-Anne Mendoza and her wife Nancy Mendoza, the website increased in popularity around the time of the 2017 United Kingdom general election.[4] It was initially funded through a combination of advertising and a group of about 1500 supporters, but by 2020 had moved to a largely reader-funded model.

The Canary
Type of site
New media outlet
Founder(s)Kerry-Anne Mendoza
Nancy Mendoza[1]
EditorDrew Rose[2]
Revenue£250,000 (2016)
URLthecanary.co
Launched2015
Current statusActive

According to Press Gazette, in July 2022 The Canary was the third most popular politics news website in the UK behind Politico and Politics Home.[5]

History edit

According to editor-in-chief Kerry-Anne Mendoza, The Canary was created in October 2015 with five founding members in an attempt to "diversify the media".[6] The website was funded by advertising and monthly contributions from around 1,500 supporters in August 2016.[7] It published 9,000 articles in its first two years.[8] According to Mendoza, a major factor motivating The Canary's founders was scepticism of the mainstream media, a scepticism that was shared by Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party. In his first address as Labour leader, he attacked pundits, arguing that they did not understanding the discontent among many ordinary British voters, and talked about the "power of social media".[7] Following the 2017 United Kingdom general election, the BBC reported that websites "such as The Canary, The Skwawkbox, and Another Angry Voice are making a huge impact and earning a massive following" and such sites were considered to have contributed to sensationalist reporting of the election.[4][9]

In September 2020, The Canary announced it would fund a new investigative unit staffed by two journalists for six months. In a statement, it said "A reader-funded investigative unit that is responsive to the requests and demands of The Canary readership is something people have asked us for since our inception. We believe this unit will be of value to our existing readers and attract new readers. We hope they will work with us to secure funding to continue the unit after the initial six months."[2] Drew Rose, formerly director of operations,[10][11] became editor-in-chief, replacing Bex Sumner. Rose said the site had survived the "decimation" of its advertising income and "politically-motivated attacks on our staff", and had shifted to a 95% reader-funded model.[2] In July 2021, Mendoza stepped down as director and editor-at-large, handing over her shares in Canary Media Limited to colleagues. She was named as chief operating officer and Emily Apple as senior editor.[12]

Political standpoint edit

The Canary is left-leaning and is frequently sceptical of the mainstream British press.[13][14][15] It was generally supportive of former labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.[13] In common with other left-wing alternative media in the United Kingdom, its stance towards the Labour leadership became more critical after Corbyn stepped down and Keir Starmer won the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.[16]

Describing her website to Journalism.co.uk, Canary editor-in-chief Kerry-Anne Mendoza said: "For us, this is ultimately about democracy. Informed consent in the public is the bedrock of democracy, and if that informed consent isn't there because people aren't aware of the kind of information that they need to be, they won't be equipped to make the decent democratic decisions that they need to, say, for example, on climate change, the justice system, or whether austerity is a positive economic policy."[6] Mendoza stated it was "a complete coincidence" that the website was created shortly after Corbyn's leadership victory, and added: "We don't have any affiliations with political parties, we don't have any affiliations with political organisations, and we're not actually ostensibly left-wing." She called the site's editorial stance "a counterpoint to conservative media" and "broadly liberal".[17] Mendoza also stated that The Canary was "biased in favour of social justice, equal rights – those are non-negotiable things. We're in this as an issue-driven organisation. ... Every press organisation has an editorial stance and we're certainly no different."[18]

Regulation and accuracy edit

In August 2017, The Canary joined the voluntary state-approved press regulator IMPRESS.[19] In its first year with the regulator, The Canary was the most complained about IMPRESS member, but the regulator upheld just two of the 58 complaints they received during 2017–2018 about its news reporting.[8] In April 2019, The Canary was given an overall pass rating and a pass on eight out of nine factors (it failed on "handles the difference between news and opinion responsibly") by NewsGuard, an organisation which evaluates news outlets for trustworthiness.[20][21]

A 2018 study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism[22] described The Canary as "a left-wing partisan site" and an example of "alternative and partisan brands" which have "a political or ideological agenda and their user base tends to passionately share these views."[23] Its trust rating was given as 4.69 where 10 is fully trusted, making it more trusted than the Daily Mail, Buzzfeed News, and The Sun but less than the Daily Mirror, the regional press, or any broadsheet newspaper, although its trust level among its own users was at 6.65 (a similar level to The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, and the regional press).[22][23]

In response to criticism, Mendoza said: "We are human beings and we make mistakes. We clean up the mess and make sure it's clear to our readership."[24] On 14 March 2019, The Canary said that it had produced 10,000 articles since its creation and two of its articles required deletion after editorial review, representing 0.02% of its content.[25]

Business model edit

In April 2016, Mendoza said in Free & Fearless (a magazine produced by Hacked Off) that "we are attracting an audience of 3.5 million unique users per month. On top of this: every two hours, 24 hours a day, seven days a week – someone becomes a paid subscriber of The Canary. ... Our growing traffic is attracting advertisers who are now offering us a floor RPM (payment per 1,000 hits) of £3 and a ceiling of £9."[26] According to The Canary's FAQ, around half of the website's revenue is raised from online advertising, and the other half from reader subscriptions.[25] According to one journalism lecturer, while the website is skilled at promoting its stories, the primary reason for its viral popularity may be its political standpoint.[27]

In its FAQ, the website explains its business model, as "Each writer and section editor is paid in two ways. Firstly, each and every article receives a flat-rate equal payment from our monthly income from supporters. So with each new supporter, the pay per article goes up for everyone every month. Secondly, each article receives a top-up payment based directly on the percentage of web traffic, and therefore advertising income, that articles generate during a given calendar month."[25] This pay-per-click model has been criticised for promoting clickbait as writers are only paid for their work if it becomes viral.[28] Mendoza disputes this, saying that the payment structure means that people who generate the revenues get a fair share.[7]

During 2016–2018, the website had an editorial team of around 30, although only five of The Canary's staff earn enough money to work full-time.[7][29] It had an annual turnover of £250,000 in 2016.[30] In August 2019, The Canary emailed users to announce that it would rely more on its team and less on freelance contributors due to a reduced income.[31][32] After the email was shared online, Mendoza said on Twitter that by the middle of this August the website would "leave the gig economy".[33] The Canary said this was due to Facebook and Google changing their algorithms, which reduced the site's traffic and therefore advertising income, and to the campaign to persuade advertisers to blacklist the site. It said it was "susceptible to pressure from political Zionists, and our advertising revenue is under fire."[34][33][35] The Canary mounted a recruitment drive for one thousand additional subscribers, which it reported it had achieved by early August, saying this had secured its immediate future.[36]

In October 2022 staff at the organisation announced that they had "overthrown" the site’s management and had been running the publisher as a co-operative since June of that year, after discovering evidence of "gross inequalities and gross mismanagement that was rampant in the company".[37]

Reception edit

In 2016, Carl Miller of Demos has said that, while the "digital world" has been "democratizing", he believes that sites such as The Canary, which reflect a single worldview, cut down on dissenting information and are likely to make people "even angrier, more outraged, more certain that that [sic] people we disagree with are evil ... which isn't good for reasoned, civil debate."[7] In January 2017, Owen Jones told PR Week that the website "promotes conspiracy theories and a lot of things that just aren't right. I worry about the Canary-isation of the left, where it ends up in a bizarre sub-culture that anyone who doesn't agree is seen as part of a conspiracy. But then you do get those blogs on left and right."[38] In July 2017, Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite the Union, said to the Morning Star: "The media needs regulating, the control of information shouldn't be in the hands of a few billionaires. Alternative media needs supporting ... . But I'd support everything that chips away at Establishment control of the narrative — The Canary, the Skwawkbox, all of it."[39]

In September 2017, Nick Robinson of the BBC listed the website, along with right-wing sites such as Westmonster, among alternative news sites waging a "guerrilla war" against the BBC[40] to promote an anti-establishment agenda.[41][42][43] Drew Rose, The Canary's director of operations, responded that "Nick Robinson's analogy that we are waging a 'guerrilla war' is apt – but it's not the war he suggests. ... For years now, swaths of the population have been ignored or otherwise failed by the established media. We're fighting to serve those people. We're doing that by helping to build a more diverse media operating outside of the establishment."[10]

In November 2020, Leeds University political scientist Jonathan Dean wrote that "websites such as Evolve Politics, Skwawkbox and The Canary have aped a more tabloid style, with short, punchy headlines and an often rather sensationalised style of reporting. The Canary, in particular, has faced criticism for its highly partisan presentation of political news stories, with critics often deeming it symptomatic of the rise of so-called 'fake news' ... ."[44]

Allegations of antisemitism edit

In early 2019, the campaign organisation Stop Funding Fake News (SFFN) described The Canary as promoting conspiracy theories, defending antisemitism, and publishing fake news.[45][46] SFFN launched a campaign to pressure advertisers not to allow their ads to run on certain websites. SFFN persuaded Macmillan Cancer Support to suspend advertising on The Canary while it reviewed online ad placement.[47] Then-MP Chris Williamson described the SFFN's campaign against The Canary as "sinister".[15] In March 2020, advertising for Tom Stoppard's play Leopoldstadt, which is about the legacy of the Holocaust, was removed from The Canary after allegations of antisemitism from SFFN.[46] In response to criticism from SFFN, The Canary co-founder Nancy Mendoza, who is Jewish, said that The Canary had taken a position of solidarity with the Palestinian people, and was therefore critical of the Israeli government and of Zionism, but that it was firmly opposed to antisemitism.[48]

In January 2021, Antisemitism and the Alternative Media, a report by Daniel Allington and Tanvi Joshi, academics at King's College London, commissioned by John Mann, Baron Mann, the UK government's independent advisor on antisemitism,[49] stated that The Canary, alongside The Skwawkbox, "promote[s] a negative view of Jews"[49] and views "life [as] a struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed, which leaves an in-group of 'socialists' – i.e. those who understand themselves to side with the oppressed – at constant risk of attack from a politically-defined Zionist enemy that must be driven out of the Labour Party." The authors of the report said that a quote from one of The Canary's co-founders "characterise[s] Israel as a European settler state, suggesting that practically every aspect of Israel is racist."[50] In response, the press regulator IMPRESS began a preliminary investigation into both websites, reviewing 41 articles and one tweet from the two publications to assess whether they were in breach of the IMPRESS Standards Code Clause on discrimination.[49][51]

In November 2021, IMPRESS released its findings that the material that they reviewed was "not sensationalist and does not use language that is likely to provoke hatred or put a person or group in fear, nor does it appear to be intended to have that effect. Those that disagree with the Publisher's views on subjects such as Zionism may find these views offensive, adversarial or provocative but this in and of itself does not rise to the level of threat to, or targeting of, persons or groups on the basis of their protected characteristics as envisaged by the Code."[51] IMPRESS dismissed the matter after finding that "of the material in remit, none of it reached the threshold which would engage the discrimination clause and, therefore, further investigation would be unjustified".[49][51][52]

Notable articles edit

The Canary has published a number of stories which have been notable enough to be picked up by mainstream media outlets.

Electoral fraud investigations edit

Following the 2015 United Kingdom general election, The Canary "dug into assorted expense claims and activities in (target) seats", according to Michael White in The Guardian,[53] after a whistleblower contacted the website to allege illegal telephone push polling by the Conservatives.[53][54][55]

Portland Communications story edit

In June 2016, a Canary article saying that the 2016 parliamentary revolt against Corbyn "appears to have been orchestrated" by Portland Communications went viral and was repeated by Len McCluskey on Andrew Marr's Sunday morning BBC programme. The article listed links between partners and employees of the PR firm, where Alastair Campbell is a senior advisor, and members of the centre-left Fabian Society and other politicians on the right of the Labour Party, without providing evidence that the firm had organised the revolt.[56][57]

Laura Kuenssberg edit

The Canary has been critical of Laura Kuenssberg's coverage of Jeremy Corbyn, and BBC News politics coverage more generally.[58] The website promoted a petition calling for Kuenssberg's resignation, hosted by 38 Degrees. 38 Degrees later took the petition down, with the agreement of the originator, saying that the petition "had become a focal point for sexist and hateful abuse made towards Laura Kuenssberg on Twitter."[59] The Canary reported Craig Murray's view that the petition was probably taken down due to "Establishment pressure",[60] while ethical entrepreneur Ian Middleton wrote in The Huffington Post that "if one looks at the list of comments published ... it's difficult to find anything remotely aggressive or sexist", and the accusations of abuse "may have been part of an orchestrated campaign on behalf of those looking to discredit the petition itself."[61]

In the fourteen months between the withdrawal of the petition in May 2016 and 20 July 2017, according to Jasper Jackson of the New Statesman, The Canary ran "at least 17 articles criticising Kuenssberg.[58] In September 2017, The Canary published an inaccurate headline that "(Kuenssberg's) listed as a speaker at the Tory Party conference". Although the article itself stated correctly that she had been invited to speak at a fringe event, the website made several changes to its article after it was first published, without detailed clarifications. The Canary later modified its headline and added a statement released by the BBC in response, stating that she would not be speaking. In December 2017, the press regulator IMPRESS adjudicated that the website had broken its code by publishing an inaccurate headline, not making sufficient efforts to check the facts, and failing to correct the inaccuracy with due prominence.[11][62][63] During the IMPRESS investigation, two board members were recused after publicly criticising Kuenssberg.[64] The Canary's tweet[65] remained online and was widely shared on social media.[66]

Carl David Goette-Luciak edit

In September 2018, The Canary republished an article by Max Blumenthal (originally published by MintPress News) attacking Nicaragua-based Carl David Goette-Luciak, a freelance journalist reporting on anti-government protests for The Guardian, days after the Committee to Protect Journalists warned that that Goette-Luciak was the victim of a "targeted online harassment campaign" by supporters of the government. Shortly afterwards, Goette-Luciak was detained, interrogated and deported. The Canary published a further article by Blumenthal attacking the reporter, and a lecture by The Canary's editor due to be given at The Guardian's offices was protested against by the National Union of Journalists and subsequently cancelled, leading to some controversy.[67][68][69]

Readership edit

During July 2016, The Canary achieved over 7.5 million page views, ranking 97th in readership among British media organisations, slightly higher than The Spectator and The Economist. The site's publishers, Canary Media, rose 47 spots from 126th in June to 79th in July among the top UK publishers.[70][71] By June 2020, the site had fallen out of the top 1,000 with just over 600,000 pageviews.[72][73] The majority of its site traffic comes from Facebook.[7]

A 2018 study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found The Canary to be used by 2% of the UK news audience, compared with The Times website on 5% or The Guardian on 15%. Its readers were more left wing than readers of all but one other publication in the survey.[22][23]

According to Press Gazette, in July 2022 The Canary had a readership of 654,000, with 2.3 million page views, and reached 1.31% of the UK population, making it the third most popular politics news website in the UK behind Politico and Politics Home.[5]

See also edit

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Further reading edit

  • Collins, John; Mills, Tom (29 September 2017). "The BBC versus The Canary: two experts have their say". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 January 2021.

External links edit

  • Official website

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The Canary is a left wing news website based in the United Kingdom While focusing on UK political affairs it also has a Global section a satire section Off the Perch and Science Environment and Health sections 3 Founded in 2015 by Kerry Anne Mendoza and her wife Nancy Mendoza the website increased in popularity around the time of the 2017 United Kingdom general election 4 It was initially funded through a combination of advertising and a group of about 1500 supporters but by 2020 had moved to a largely reader funded model The CanaryType of siteNew media outletFounder s Kerry Anne MendozaNancy Mendoza 1 EditorDrew Rose 2 Revenue 250 000 2016 URLthecanary wbr coLaunched2015Current statusActiveAccording to Press Gazette in July 2022 The Canary was the third most popular politics news website in the UK behind Politico and Politics Home 5 Contents 1 History 2 Political standpoint 3 Regulation and accuracy 4 Business model 5 Reception 5 1 Allegations of antisemitism 6 Notable articles 6 1 Electoral fraud investigations 6 2 Portland Communications story 6 3 Laura Kuenssberg 6 4 Carl David Goette Luciak 7 Readership 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksHistory editAccording to editor in chief Kerry Anne Mendoza The Canary was created in October 2015 with five founding members in an attempt to diversify the media 6 The website was funded by advertising and monthly contributions from around 1 500 supporters in August 2016 7 It published 9 000 articles in its first two years 8 According to Mendoza a major factor motivating The Canary s founders was scepticism of the mainstream media a scepticism that was shared by Jeremy Corbyn the leader of the Labour Party In his first address as Labour leader he attacked pundits arguing that they did not understanding the discontent among many ordinary British voters and talked about the power of social media 7 Following the 2017 United Kingdom general election the BBC reported that websites such as The Canary The Skwawkbox and Another Angry Voice are making a huge impact and earning a massive following and such sites were considered to have contributed to sensationalist reporting of the election 4 9 In September 2020 The Canary announced it would fund a new investigative unit staffed by two journalists for six months In a statement it said A reader funded investigative unit that is responsive to the requests and demands of The Canary readership is something people have asked us for since our inception We believe this unit will be of value to our existing readers and attract new readers We hope they will work with us to secure funding to continue the unit after the initial six months 2 Drew Rose formerly director of operations 10 11 became editor in chief replacing Bex Sumner Rose said the site had survived the decimation of its advertising income and politically motivated attacks on our staff and had shifted to a 95 reader funded model 2 In July 2021 Mendoza stepped down as director and editor at large handing over her shares in Canary Media Limited to colleagues She was named as chief operating officer and Emily Apple as senior editor 12 Political standpoint editThe Canary is left leaning and is frequently sceptical of the mainstream British press 13 14 15 It was generally supportive of former labour leader Jeremy Corbyn 13 In common with other left wing alternative media in the United Kingdom its stance towards the Labour leadership became more critical after Corbyn stepped down and Keir Starmer won the 2020 Labour Party leadership election 16 Describing her website to Journalism co uk Canary editor in chief Kerry Anne Mendoza said For us this is ultimately about democracy Informed consent in the public is the bedrock of democracy and if that informed consent isn t there because people aren t aware of the kind of information that they need to be they won t be equipped to make the decent democratic decisions that they need to say for example on climate change the justice system or whether austerity is a positive economic policy 6 Mendoza stated it was a complete coincidence that the website was created shortly after Corbyn s leadership victory and added We don t have any affiliations with political parties we don t have any affiliations with political organisations and we re not actually ostensibly left wing She called the site s editorial stance a counterpoint to conservative media and broadly liberal 17 Mendoza also stated that The Canary was biased in favour of social justice equal rights those are non negotiable things We re in this as an issue driven organisation Every press organisation has an editorial stance and we re certainly no different 18 Regulation and accuracy editIn August 2017 The Canary joined the voluntary state approved press regulator IMPRESS 19 In its first year with the regulator The Canary was the most complained about IMPRESS member but the regulator upheld just two of the 58 complaints they received during 2017 2018 about its news reporting 8 In April 2019 The Canary was given an overall pass rating and a pass on eight out of nine factors it failed on handles the difference between news and opinion responsibly by NewsGuard an organisation which evaluates news outlets for trustworthiness 20 21 A 2018 study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 22 described The Canary as a left wing partisan site and an example of alternative and partisan brands which have a political or ideological agenda and their user base tends to passionately share these views 23 Its trust rating was given as 4 69 where 10 is fully trusted making it more trusted than the Daily Mail Buzzfeed News and The Sun but less than the Daily Mirror the regional press or any broadsheet newspaper although its trust level among its own users was at 6 65 a similar level to The Independent The Daily Telegraph and the regional press 22 23 In response to criticism Mendoza said We are human beings and we make mistakes We clean up the mess and make sure it s clear to our readership 24 On 14 March 2019 The Canary said that it had produced 10 000 articles since its creation and two of its articles required deletion after editorial review representing 0 02 of its content 25 Business model editIn April 2016 Mendoza said in Free amp Fearless a magazine produced by Hacked Off that we are attracting an audience of 3 5 million unique users per month On top of this every two hours 24 hours a day seven days a week someone becomes a paid subscriber of The Canary Our growing traffic is attracting advertisers who are now offering us a floor RPM payment per 1 000 hits of 3 and a ceiling of 9 26 According to The Canary s FAQ around half of the website s revenue is raised from online advertising and the other half from reader subscriptions 25 According to one journalism lecturer while the website is skilled at promoting its stories the primary reason for its viral popularity may be its political standpoint 27 In its FAQ the website explains its business model as Each writer and section editor is paid in two ways Firstly each and every article receives a flat rate equal payment from our monthly income from supporters So with each new supporter the pay per article goes up for everyone every month Secondly each article receives a top up payment based directly on the percentage of web traffic and therefore advertising income that articles generate during a given calendar month 25 This pay per click model has been criticised for promoting clickbait as writers are only paid for their work if it becomes viral 28 Mendoza disputes this saying that the payment structure means that people who generate the revenues get a fair share 7 During 2016 2018 the website had an editorial team of around 30 although only five of The Canary s staff earn enough money to work full time 7 29 It had an annual turnover of 250 000 in 2016 30 In August 2019 The Canary emailed users to announce that it would rely more on its team and less on freelance contributors due to a reduced income 31 32 After the email was shared online Mendoza said on Twitter that by the middle of this August the website would leave the gig economy 33 The Canary said this was due to Facebook and Google changing their algorithms which reduced the site s traffic and therefore advertising income and to the campaign to persuade advertisers to blacklist the site It said it was susceptible to pressure from political Zionists and our advertising revenue is under fire 34 33 35 The Canary mounted a recruitment drive for one thousand additional subscribers which it reported it had achieved by early August saying this had secured its immediate future 36 In October 2022 staff at the organisation announced that they had overthrown the site s management and had been running the publisher as a co operative since June of that year after discovering evidence of gross inequalities and gross mismanagement that was rampant in the company 37 Reception editIn 2016 Carl Miller of Demos has said that while the digital world has been democratizing he believes that sites such as The Canary which reflect a single worldview cut down on dissenting information and are likely to make people even angrier more outraged more certain that that sic people we disagree with are evil which isn t good for reasoned civil debate 7 In January 2017 Owen Jones told PR Week that the website promotes conspiracy theories and a lot of things that just aren t right I worry about the Canary isation of the left where it ends up in a bizarre sub culture that anyone who doesn t agree is seen as part of a conspiracy But then you do get those blogs on left and right 38 In July 2017 Len McCluskey the general secretary of Unite the Union said to the Morning Star The media needs regulating the control of information shouldn t be in the hands of a few billionaires Alternative media needs supporting But I d support everything that chips away at Establishment control of the narrative The Canary the Skwawkbox all of it 39 In September 2017 Nick Robinson of the BBC listed the website along with right wing sites such as Westmonster among alternative news sites waging a guerrilla war against the BBC 40 to promote an anti establishment agenda 41 42 43 Drew Rose The Canary s director of operations responded that Nick Robinson s analogy that we are waging a guerrilla war is apt but it s not the war he suggests For years now swaths of the population have been ignored or otherwise failed by the established media We re fighting to serve those people We re doing that by helping to build a more diverse media operating outside of the establishment 10 In November 2020 Leeds University political scientist Jonathan Dean wrote that websites such as Evolve Politics Skwawkbox and The Canary have aped a more tabloid style with short punchy headlines and an often rather sensationalised style of reporting The Canary in particular has faced criticism for its highly partisan presentation of political news stories with critics often deeming it symptomatic of the rise of so called fake news 44 Allegations of antisemitism edit In early 2019 the campaign organisation Stop Funding Fake News SFFN described The Canary as promoting conspiracy theories defending antisemitism and publishing fake news 45 46 SFFN launched a campaign to pressure advertisers not to allow their ads to run on certain websites SFFN persuaded Macmillan Cancer Support to suspend advertising on The Canary while it reviewed online ad placement 47 Then MP Chris Williamson described the SFFN s campaign against The Canary as sinister 15 In March 2020 advertising for Tom Stoppard s play Leopoldstadt which is about the legacy of the Holocaust was removed from The Canary after allegations of antisemitism from SFFN 46 In response to criticism from SFFN The Canary co founder Nancy Mendoza who is Jewish said that The Canary had taken a position of solidarity with the Palestinian people and was therefore critical of the Israeli government and of Zionism but that it was firmly opposed to antisemitism 48 In January 2021 Antisemitism and the Alternative Media a report by Daniel Allington and Tanvi Joshi academics at King s College London commissioned by John Mann Baron Mann the UK government s independent advisor on antisemitism 49 stated that The Canary alongside The Skwawkbox promote s a negative view of Jews 49 and views life as a struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed which leaves an in group of socialists i e those who understand themselves to side with the oppressed at constant risk of attack from a politically defined Zionist enemy that must be driven out of the Labour Party The authors of the report said that a quote from one of The Canary s co founders characterise s Israel as a European settler state suggesting that practically every aspect of Israel is racist 50 In response the press regulator IMPRESS began a preliminary investigation into both websites reviewing 41 articles and one tweet from the two publications to assess whether they were in breach of the IMPRESS Standards Code Clause on discrimination 49 51 In November 2021 IMPRESS released its findings that the material that they reviewed was not sensationalist and does not use language that is likely to provoke hatred or put a person or group in fear nor does it appear to be intended to have that effect Those that disagree with the Publisher s views on subjects such as Zionism may find these views offensive adversarial or provocative but this in and of itself does not rise to the level of threat to or targeting of persons or groups on the basis of their protected characteristics as envisaged by the Code 51 IMPRESS dismissed the matter after finding that of the material in remit none of it reached the threshold which would engage the discrimination clause and therefore further investigation would be unjustified 49 51 52 Notable articles editThe Canary has published a number of stories which have been notable enough to be picked up by mainstream media outlets Electoral fraud investigations edit Following the 2015 United Kingdom general election The Canary dug into assorted expense claims and activities in target seats according to Michael White in The Guardian 53 after a whistleblower contacted the website to allege illegal telephone push polling by the Conservatives 53 54 55 Portland Communications story edit In June 2016 a Canary article saying that the 2016 parliamentary revolt against Corbyn appears to have been orchestrated by Portland Communications went viral and was repeated by Len McCluskey on Andrew Marr s Sunday morning BBC programme The article listed links between partners and employees of the PR firm where Alastair Campbell is a senior advisor and members of the centre left Fabian Society and other politicians on the right of the Labour Party without providing evidence that the firm had organised the revolt 56 57 Laura Kuenssberg edit The Canary has been critical of Laura Kuenssberg s coverage of Jeremy Corbyn and BBC News politics coverage more generally 58 The website promoted a petition calling for Kuenssberg s resignation hosted by 38 Degrees 38 Degrees later took the petition down with the agreement of the originator saying that the petition had become a focal point for sexist and hateful abuse made towards Laura Kuenssberg on Twitter 59 The Canary reported Craig Murray s view that the petition was probably taken down due to Establishment pressure 60 while ethical entrepreneur Ian Middleton wrote in The Huffington Post that if one looks at the list of comments published it s difficult to find anything remotely aggressive or sexist and the accusations of abuse may have been part of an orchestrated campaign on behalf of those looking to discredit the petition itself 61 In the fourteen months between the withdrawal of the petition in May 2016 and 20 July 2017 according to Jasper Jackson of the New Statesman The Canary ran at least 17 articles criticising Kuenssberg 58 In September 2017 The Canary published an inaccurate headline that Kuenssberg s listed as a speaker at the Tory Party conference Although the article itself stated correctly that she had been invited to speak at a fringe event the website made several changes to its article after it was first published without detailed clarifications The Canary later modified its headline and added a statement released by the BBC in response stating that she would not be speaking In December 2017 the press regulator IMPRESS adjudicated that the website had broken its code by publishing an inaccurate headline not making sufficient efforts to check the facts and failing to correct the inaccuracy with due prominence 11 62 63 During the IMPRESS investigation two board members were recused after publicly criticising Kuenssberg 64 The Canary s tweet 65 remained online and was widely shared on social media 66 Carl David Goette Luciak edit In September 2018 The Canary republished an article by Max Blumenthal originally published by MintPress News attacking Nicaragua based Carl David Goette Luciak a freelance journalist reporting on anti government protests for The Guardian days after the Committee to Protect Journalists warned that that Goette Luciak was the victim of a targeted online harassment campaign by supporters of the government Shortly afterwards Goette Luciak was detained interrogated and deported The Canary published a further article by Blumenthal attacking the reporter and a lecture by The Canary s editor due to be given at The Guardian s offices was protested against by the National Union of Journalists and subsequently cancelled leading to some controversy 67 68 69 Readership editDuring July 2016 The Canary achieved over 7 5 million page views ranking 97th in readership among British media organisations slightly higher than The Spectator and The Economist The site s publishers Canary Media rose 47 spots from 126th in June to 79th in July among the top UK publishers 70 71 By June 2020 the site had fallen out of the top 1 000 with just over 600 000 pageviews 72 73 The majority of its site traffic comes from Facebook 7 A 2018 study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found The Canary to be used by 2 of the UK news audience compared with The Times website on 5 or The Guardian on 15 Its readers were more left wing than readers of all but one other publication in the survey 22 23 According to Press Gazette in July 2022 The Canary had a readership of 654 000 with 2 3 million page views and reached 1 31 of the UK population making it the third most popular politics news website in the UK behind Politico and Politics Home 5 See also editThe London Economic Paul StainesReferences edit Mendoza Nancy NancyWMendoza 30 November 2020 Thanks to skwawkbox for this act of solidarity I m Jewish TheMendozaWoman is my wife and I co founded TheCanaryUK with her After 10 years of marriage I can honestly say she s not antisemitic Tweet Retrieved 7 December 2020 via Twitter a b c Tobitt Charlotte 10 September 2020 The Canary hires journalists and creates investigative team year after making cuts Press Gazette Retrieved 14 February 2021 Official website The Canary 14 August 2016 Retrieved 14 August 2016 a b Rajan Amol 13 June 2017 Five election lessons for the media BBC News Retrieved 30 March 2019 a b Ranked Most popular politics news websites in UK Press Gazette 1 September 2022 Retrieved 9 October 2022 a b Scott Caroline 23 October 2015 How news outlet The Canary aims to diversify media Journalism co uk Retrieved 2 June 2016 a b c d e f Spence Alex 18 August 2016 Jeremy Corbyn and the disruptive Canary Politico Retrieved 30 November 2017 a b Tobitt Charlotte 9 January 2019 Left wing website The Canary most complained about Impress regulated publication of 2017 18 Press Gazette Retrieved 7 February 2019 Chadwick Andrew Vaccari Cristian O Loughlin Ben 20 April 2018 Do tabloids poison the well of social media Explaining democratically dysfunctional news sharing New Media amp Society SAGE Publications 20 11 4255 4274 doi 10 1177 1461444818769689 ISSN 1461 4448 S2CID 53564932 In the fallout from the 2017 UK general election there was much discussion about the growth of sensationalism in online political news as a result of the popularity of new ideologically slanted news sites such as for example Breitbart UK and Westmonster on the right and the Canary and Evolvepolitics on the left a b Ruddick Graham 28 September 2017 Alternative news sites attack Nick Robinson s claim of guerrilla war on BBC The Guardian Retrieved 1 December 2021 a b Di Stefano Mark 8 November 2017 The Canary Is Being Investigated Over The Accuracy Of An Article About Laura Kuenssberg BuzzFeed Retrieved 1 December 2021 Connolly Robin 21 July 2021 Editor at large of The Canary steps down Bristol 24 7 Retrieved 4 January 2022 a b Hill Steve 2019 Fake News and Trolling Mobile First Journalism Producing News for Social and Interactive Media New York Routledge ISBN 978 1 138 28931 4 OCLC 1053623541 If there was a British equivalent of Breitbart it would be The Canary thecanary co The left leaning news site was a cheerleader for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn It is a simplification to say hyperpartisan news is automatically fake news Jackson Jasper Hyper partisan Corbynite websites show how the left can beat the tabloids online New Statesman a b Suspended MP Chris Williamson defends pro Corbyn hyper partisan The Canary attacking sinister bid to close it The Jewish Chronicle 4 August 2019 Retrieved 21 November 2020 McDowell Naylor Declan Thomas Richard Cushion Stephen 15 July 2020 How left wing media sites have changed their coverage of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer The Conversation Retrieved 22 October 2020 Le Conte Marie 10 August 2016 How A Pro Corbyn Viral Website With A Pay Per Click Business Model Is Taking Over Social Media BuzzFeed Retrieved 15 August 2016 Waterson Jim 6 May 2017 The Rise Of The Alt Left British Media BuzzFeed Retrieved 31 March 2019 Mayhew Freddy 24 August 2017 The Canary joins Impress to become alternative press regulator s 66th member Press Gazette Retrieved 2 January 2018 Waterson Jim 24 April 2019 Untrustworthy news sites could be flagged automatically in UK The Guardian Retrieved 30 April 2019 Walker James 24 April 2019 US start up Newsguard rolls out trust rankings for major UK newsbrands Press Gazette Retrieved 30 April 2019 a b c Digital News Report 2018 Digital News Report Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism University of Oxford 14 June 2018 Retrieved 26 June 2019 a b c Newman Nic 14 June 2018 They tell the truth I like Partisan And Alternative News Sites in Europe European Journalism Observatory Retrieved 4 January 2022 Harrison Andrew 6 August 2017 Can you trust the mainstream media The Guardian Retrieved 30 March 2019 a b c About amp FAQ The Canary Archived from the original on 28 March 2019 Retrieved 8 April 2019 Mendoza Kerry Anne April 2016 The Canary is a new media outlet shaking up journalism in a radical way PDF Free amp Fearless Hacked Off p 6 Retrieved 2 June 2016 Hill Steve 2019 Fake News and Trolling Mobile First Journalism Producing News for Social and Interactive Media New York Routledge ISBN 978 1 138 28931 4 OCLC 1053623541 Kerry Anne Mendoza Canary editor states the site s aims Today a handful of powerful moguls control our mainstream media As such its coverage is largely conservative But we have created a truly independent and viable alternative One that isn t afraid to challenge the status quo to ask the hard questions and to have an opinion Their skilled use of social media optimisation when promoting stories on social media has meant their stories are often widely shared In some respects they share the traditions of journalism e g they usually seek to break exclusive stories and expand the public debate But with a strong commitment to a particular political cause their reporting is by definition one sided Indeed this may be the primary reason for their popularity Canary Wings It JPEG image Private Eye No 1419 Pressdram 26 May 2016 p 10 Team 4 December 2018 Retrieved 4 December 2018 Mayhew Freddy 20 October 2016 The Canary From 500 start up to top 100 UK news website in the space of a year Press Gazette Retrieved 22 March 2018 Pro Corbyn website The Canary denies it is antisemitic then blames political Zionists for forcing it to downsize The Jewish Chronicle 2 August 2019 Retrieved 2 August 2019 Fake news site forced to downsize as revenue model no longer works Jewish News 2 August 2019 Retrieved 2 August 2019 a b Tobitt Charlotte 5 August 2019 The Canary blames attacks by political Zionists for failing business model as cuts fall Press Gazette Retrieved 23 July 2020 Kondo Marie Cicurel Deborah Grant Brigit Cicurel Deborah Wolfisz Francine 2 August 2019 Fake news site forced to downsize blaming campaign by political Zionists Jewish News Retrieved 23 July 2020 Doherty Rosa 6 August 2019 Co Chair not the slightest bit embarrassed The Jewish Chronicle Archived from the original on 20 January 2020 Retrieved 19 January 2020 Mendoza Kerry Anne 7 August 2019 You did it You saved The Canary The Canary Retrieved 8 August 2019 Maher Bron 3 October 2022 The Canary staff overthrow directors to establish a co op Press Gazette Retrieved 3 October 2022 Burne James Sam 9 January 2017 Grilled Owen Jones Guardian columnist author activist and sushi socialist PRWeek Retrieved 25 January 2017 Len McCluskey interview Extraordinary times in politics Morning Star 30 June 2017 Retrieved 26 June 2019 Collins John Mills Tom 29 September 2017 The BBC versus The Canary two experts have their say The Conversation Retrieved 1 December 2021 Ruddick Graham 27 September 2017 Alternative news sites waging guerrilla war on BBC says Nick Robinson The Guardian Retrieved 1 December 2021 Wimhurst Liane 28 September 2017 Nick Robinson Attacking the MSM is now a political strategy I Retrieved 1 December 2021 Robinson Nick 29 September 2017 Nick Robinson s Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture We need to re make the case for impartiality in the news media Press Gazette Retrieved 1 December 2021 Dean Jonathan 8 November 2020 Left politics and popular culture in Britain From left wing populism to popular leftism Politics SAGE Publications 3 17 doi 10 1177 0263395720960661 ISSN 0263 3957 Our fight against fake news is starting to turn the tide politics co uk 7 August 2019 Retrieved 23 July 2020 a b Frot Mathilde 2 March 2020 Tom Stoppard play boycotts anti Jewish propaganda news site Jewish News Retrieved 27 July 2020 Frot Mathilde 27 March 2019 Anti fake news activists persuade cancer charity to remove advert on The Canary Jewish News Retrieved 29 March 2019 Mendoza Nancy 5 April 2019 Dear Haters The Canary isn t antisemitic you just don t like our politics The Canary Retrieved 26 June 2019 a b c d Maher Bron 7 December 2021 No further investigation into Canary and Skwawkbox anti Semitism Press Gazette Retrieved 4 January 2022 Allington Daniel Joshi Tanvi 5 March 2021 Antisemitism and the alternative media Research Portal King s College London Retrieved 26 November 2021 a b c Initiated Investigation Report 364 The Canary and The Skwawkbox PDF IMPRESS 21 October 2021 Retrieved 1 December 2021 IMA Response Independent Media Association 25 November 2021 Retrieved 25 November 2021 a b White Michael 1 June 2016 Why is there so little noise about the Tory election fraud claims The Guardian Retrieved 3 June 2016 Editorial 2 June 2016 The Guardian view on policing elections harder but no less important The Guardian Retrieved 3 June 2016 Crick Michael 21 June 2016 Could referendum push polling influence the result Channel 4 News Singleton David 29 June 2016 Is it true that a PR firm full of Blairites is orchestrating the Labour coup New Statesman Retrieved 21 August 2016 Watts Jake Bale Tim 29 October 2018 Populism as an intra party phenomenon The British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn The British Journal of Politics and International Relations SAGE Publications 21 1 99 115 doi 10 1177 1369148118806115 ISSN 1369 1481 S2CID 149518228 McCluskey suggested that these sinister forces could be linked to the public relations firm Portland Communications an organisation which he claimed had clear links with Tony Blair and the Labour right This conspiracy theory was largely drawn from an article published on the pro Corbyn website The Canary that falsely as it turned out argued that the firm had been directly behind the attempted coup a b Jackson Jasper 20 July 2017 Do the Canary and co have the skill and stamina to take on the popular press New Statesman Retrieved 30 November 2017 Jackson Jasper 10 May 2016 Laura Kuenssberg petition taken down over sexist abuse The Guardian Retrieved 10 May 2016 Mendoza Kerry anne 11 May 2016 Petition to sack BBC s Laura Kuenssberg was probably removed under establishment pressure says former UK ambassador The Canary Retrieved 2 June 2016 Middleton Ian 12 May 2016 It s Going to Take More Than an Online Petition to Stamp Out Bias at the BBC HuffPost Retrieved 16 May 2016 Impress rules Canary breached standards code over Laura Kuenssberg article Press Gazette 20 December 2017 Hopkins Steven 21 December 2017 Laura Kuenssberg Tory Conference Speaker Story Sees The Canary Make Front Page Correction Huffington Post Retrieved 22 September 2019 Ruddick Graham 15 November 2017 Impress excludes board members from Laura Kuenssberg article inquiry the Guardian Retrieved 18 February 2021 The Canary on Twitter in German Twitter 14 June 2020 Archived from the original on 14 June 2020 Retrieved 18 February 2021 We need to talk about Laura Kuenssberg She s listed as a speaker at the Tory Party conference Cushion Stephen 19 December 2018 Journalism under ideological threat Safeguarding and enhancing public service media into the 21st century Journalism SAGE Publications 20 1 69 72 doi 10 1177 1464884918807036 ISSN 1464 8849 Mayhew Freddy 5 October 2018 NUJ cancels event with Canary editor after reports targeting Guardian freelancer covering protests in Nicaragua lead to his deportation Press Gazette Retrieved 25 November 2020 Stefano Mark Di 2 October 2018 A Journalist Has Been Deported From Nicaragua After Being Doxxed By An Online Mob BuzzFeed Retrieved 25 November 2020 Barnett Adam 5 October 2018 The Canary is not journalism it s a government mouthpiece in waiting Politics co uk Retrieved 25 November 2020 UK Media Publishers and Publications Ranked for July 2016 SimilarWeb Retrieved 19 September 2016 Mandhai Shafik 19 October 2016 The Canary and leftist media find sudden success in UK Al Jazeera Retrieved 4 January 2022 Thecanary co Analytics Market Share Stats amp Traffic Report SimilarWeb Retrieved 4 August 2020 Kerry Anne Mendoza leaves the Canary The Spectator 13 September 2021 Retrieved 4 January 2022 Further reading editCollins John Mills Tom 29 September 2017 The BBC versus The Canary two experts have their say The Conversation Retrieved 4 January 2021 External links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Canary website amp oldid 1182647221, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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