Blog posts tagged "Journalism"

March 12, 2009 3:55 pm 5 Comments

I blogged earlier this week about the possibility that our disgraced bank bosses had signed “gagging orders” as part of their severance deals, stopping them from talking about what happened to the banks on their watch (earlier this week we asked RBS and Lloyds TSB to confirm or deny this, but they have yet to [...]

March 10, 2009 11:36 am 8 Comments

“How do you pronounce ‘principum amicias’? Is it hard ‘c’, soft ‘c’, or a hard ‘ch’?” my friend asked. She was working on the story of the newly discovered Shakespeare portrait. I think I was right in suggesting a hard “c”. But before I knew it, we were debating the value of Latin – four [...]

March 9, 2009 3:51 pm No Comments

We’ve had an actor in here. He’s got a part in which he plays a whiz British news producer who is sent to a chaotic American newsroom to sort it out. I told him he should watch Broadcast News, still after all these years the best film ever made about our trade – even if [...]

February 18, 2009 10:30 am No Comments

Can it only be a year since Northern Rock disgraced the British financial system and collapsed under the weight of its own hubris and incompetence? Did we think then that it would prove the Northern tip of a very large iceberg indeed? Above and beyond anyone else I blame my own breed, we journalists, who [...]

February 5, 2009 12:08 pm No Comments

My visit to the literary festival in Cartegena found three of us in rare coalition meeting kids in the poorer barrios of the town.