Skip To Main Content
David Sleight on Muck Rack

David Sleight

United Kingdom
As seen in: ProPublica, Nieman Lab, Lexology, Editor & Publisher, The Law Society Gazette, OpenNews, Tax Journal
Publishing webgeek, reformed consultant, authorized person. Former senior design and product director at @ProPublica. Currently chilling on purpose.
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with David

Contact David, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Finding a candle in the dark

|
By David Sleight
| Nieman Lab Verified
Finding a candle in the dark “We keep trying to ‘fix’ the news, but we’re up against an equally deep societal crisis in education and other civic institutions that shape how people understand the world and our work.” -inding-a-candle-in-the-dark Predicting the future of journalism with any precision may be a fool’s errand, though the broad — and mostly bleak — contours are obvious enough: local news will still face collapse; public trust will continue to buckle under the twin pressures of...
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

HMRC’s strengthened reward scheme for whistleblowers of tax avoidance and evasion

|
By Waqar Ali Shah, David Sleight
| kingsleynapley.co.uk
The new scheme The Chancellor has announced the terms of the financial incentive for those who report serious tax avoidance or evasion, the . Between 2023 and 2024, there is estimated to be a tax gap of £46.8 billion between the amount of tax recovered by HMRC and the amount of tax due to HMRC.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

Celtic & Liverpool: a tale of two cities

|
By David Sleight
| acsom.net
“There is a finite amount of space in this boy’s head and too much of it is currently devoted to football.”  So read one of my school reports the thick end of forty years ago and I must admit that Charles Dickens would not have been the first name to pop into my head had I read the sub-title of this article at the time. My best pal at school followed Liverpool and my mum was a Celtic fan so I grew up supporting both teams – and, frankly, thought of little else.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 58 articles