Contributing Editor and community reporter, Paris Ali-Pilling reports about the ongoing campaign to #SaveIndependentNews, created by the Independent Community News Network in partnership with the Public Interest News Foundation. The Independent Community News Network (ICNN) [… read more ]
Paul Valentine reviews the recent opening night performance of Latin Fiesta, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto, with piano by Gabriela Montero and Mezzo-Soprano by Rihab Chaieb. From the outset, Prieto’s mastery and management of the orchestra was perfect. The [… read more ]
PhD candidate in the University of Portsmouth’s School of Film, Media and Communication and Editor-in-Chief of Star & Crescent, Sarah Cheverton, talks to Maia Cook about her passion for local news, the academic research process, her [… read more ]
Community Reporter Helen Salsbury reports on ‘Streets for People’, a public meeting in October 2018 that explored ways of making Portsmouth’s streets vibrant, safe, and healthy places for local communities, businesses, residents and visitors to [… read more ]
The subject of Brexit comes up in the media every day, but there’s very little information on how it will affect the city. Community reporter Rosy Bremer decided to find out. Additional reporting by Sarah [… read more ]
Journalism has always been a loose extension of establishment power, but something has changed in recent years, argues John Pilger. This article is an amended version of the foreword to Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media [… read more ]
One of our #ReclaimTheNews team, Andrew Hurdle, showcases the Midweek Minis meetup at Port Solent in this exclusive piece of photo journalism for S&C. In 2014, Ashley Abraham and James Calder set up Midweek Minis, [… read more ]
In partnership with the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Star & Crescent presents an evening of discussion and debate exploring the current state and importance of news media in Portsmouth, and it’s FREE. 5th March 2018, [… read more ]
Star & Crescent has partnered up with the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) to offer 12 local residents a FREE place on a 10-week local journalism course worth £100s and based here in Portsmouth. Are [… read more ]
Editor in Chief Sarah Cheverton and a Portsmouth NHS doctor (who prefers not to be named) report on proposals to cut over £500 million from the NHS in Hampshire and Isle of Wight by 2020, [… read more ]
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