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Jon Allsop

Jon Allsop is a freelance journalist. He writes CJR’s newsletter The Media Today

August 2023

  • Nadine Dorries interviews Boris Johnson on her TalkTV show.

    Should MPs be banned from becoming talkshow hosts?

    Jon Allsop
    Ofcom’s current rules are confusing and the regulator needs to decide if the trend is a risk to impartiality, says freelance journalist Jon Allsop

June 2022

  • JD Vance<br>FILE - Republican Senate candidate JD Vance speaks at a rally at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, April 23, 2022, in Delaware, Ohio. Former President Donald Trump's late-stage endorsement of JD Vance in Ohio's GOP Senate primary catapulted the “Hillbilly Elegy” author to victory in last week's election, reinforcing the deep loyalty the former president holds among the most loyal Republican voters. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)

    The ‘new right’ is Trump’s toxic legacy – and it could shape the future of British politics

    Jon Allsop
    This authoritarian worldview is gaining momentum in America. What’s to stop its ideas taking seed in the UK, asks journalist Jon Allsop

February 2022

  • Oliver Dowden

    The British public won’t swallow the Tories’ half-baked ‘war on woke’

    Jon Allsop
  • Donald Trump and Boris Johnson

    Johnson and Trump aren’t the same, but they swim in the same cesspool

    Jon Allsop

February 2020

  • Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden talks to journalists as he arrives at a campaign event in Mt Pleasant, Iowa, U.S., January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

    The Iowa caucus is a reminder that 'horserace' journalism is still the norm

    Jon Allsop
    When journalists speculate about ‘electability’ we risk getting it wrong. Worse, we risk warping the debate and biasing voters

January 2020

  • ‘Sonmezgate also exposes a more routine problem: the tyranny of the newsroom social media policy.’

    The Felicia Sonmez affair was not journalism's finest hour

    Jon Allsop
  • US-VOTE-2020-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE<br>Democratic presidential hopefuls (fromL) Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders arrive onstage ahead of the sixth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by PBS NewsHour & Politico at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California on December 19, 2019. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

    The media's obsession with Iowa deepens the Democrats' whiteness problem

    Jon Allsop
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