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LATEST ARTICLES


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INTERVIEWS


BBC RADIO


LATEST NOTEBOOK


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LATEST ARTICLES


'His only vice is women', The Spectator
Thursday, June 03, 2010

'The Data Revolution', WIRED
Thursday, August 05, 2010

'The Great Trust Experiment', WIRED
Friday, May 07, 2010

The Report: Community Sentencing, BBC Radio 4
Thursday, July 22, 2010

'Volcanic Ash = No Sushi', The Times (Raconteur)
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

FEATURES + INVESTIGATIONS


'A couple of cards', The Scotsman
Tuesday, June 26, 2001

'A Goat's Tale', The Guardian
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

'A Short Sharp Read On the Move', Sky News Online
Saturday, February 02, 2008

'A tale of two Diddies', The Guardian
Monday, March 12, 2007

Alan Dershowitz on torture, BBC/The Scotsman
Saturday, May 22, 2004

'All Of Us 60s Pop Stars Were...', Sky News Online
Thursday, December 13, 2007

'Alton becomes Indy Editor', Sky News Online
Friday, April 11, 2008

'Blinging the changes', The Guardian
Monday, September 11, 2006

'Blogs win out in US writers' strike', Sky News
Monday, January 28, 2008

'Blue Is The New Green', Sky News Online
Thursday, January 03, 2008

'Bouquets and brickbats', The Guardian
Monday, May 16, 2005

'Can Murdoch Save Online News?', Wired Magazine
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

'Catch a perv', The Guardian
Thursday, November 16, 2006

'Clifford promises not to kiss..', The Independent
Monday, August 15, 2005

'Colourtelly.tv', The Guardian
Monday, July 02, 2007

Comment: Unfree at last, The Guardian
Monday, July 06, 2009

'Cyberspace Boom For National Papers', Sky News
Monday, February 25, 2008

'Dawn's 'Star' turn...?'', Independent on Sunday
Sunday, October 22, 2006

'Death Row's Richey reprieved', Sky News Online
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

'Esquire at 75', Sky News Online
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

'Exploitation in TV industry', The Guardian
Monday, April 11, 2005

'Express Titles Hit...', Sky News Online
Monday, March 10, 2008

'Film Bluff', The Guardian
Monday, November 20, 2006

'Flordia 2000', The Evening Standard
Wednesday, January 17, 2001

'Fraser vs BBC: Expect Fireworks', Press Gazette
Friday, April 01, 2005

'Free for all', The Guardian
Monday, April 25, 2005

'From Snooping to Scooping', The Guardian
Monday, August 14, 2006

'Full Stream Ahead", Media Week magazine
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

'Gloves off, ready for...', The Evening Standard
Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Gumtree.com : Celebrity spotting, The Guardian
Monday, March 12, 2007

'Heat's Frith Quits To Dish Celeb Dirt', Sky News
Friday, February 29, 2008

'High noon for New York's Sun', The Independent
Tuesday, October 28, 2003

'How newspapers can survive', Sky News Online
Friday, August 01, 2008

'How Polaris Man became a star', Sky News Online
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

'How the media blew it in NH', Sky News Online
Friday, January 11, 2008

'How to flog a turkey', The Guardian
Monday, October 03, 2005

'I'm making a complaint', The Evening Standard
Wednesday, December 19, 2001

'Indy price hike backfired', guardian.co.uk
Monday, November 24, 2008

'Inside the Cancer Pills Hype Machine', WIRED
Monday, January 18, 2010

'Is it time for `And finally..'?', The Independent
Tuesday, September 09, 2003

'It's the thought that counts', The Guardian
Monday, March 06, 2006

'James Brown on lads' mags slump', Sky News
Thursday, August 21, 2008

'Jumping from Sky?', The Evening Standard
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

'Kenny Richey: On Death Row', The Observer
Sunday, October 13, 2002

'Latest Press ABCs', Sky News Online
Monday, July 14, 2008

'Loaded And Maxim See Sales Plummet', Sky News
Thursday, February 14, 2008

'Marketing to Muslims', The Guardian
Monday, May 21, 2007

'Newcastle? It's a city in Scotland', The Times
Friday, July 05, 2002

Nobody's Fools, The Times (Raconteur)
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

'Now you listen here...', The Evening Standard
Wednesday, January 10, 2001

'One Last Chance for Pan...', The Guardian
Monday, July 24, 2006

Opinion: 'View from America', The Guardian
Friday, November 11, 2005

'Panorama...stunts,' The Guardian (News)
Monday, August 21, 2006

'PAs byte back', The Guardian
Monday, September 18, 2006

'Peddling a crash?', Sky News Online
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

'PM's Press Hammering', Sky News Online
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

'Poison Pens...', The Evening Standard
Wednesday, February 21, 2001

'Praying for survival', The Independent
Tuesday, December 02, 2003

'Pressed for cash', The Guardian
Monday, October 17, 2005

'Ready to do battle', Press Gazette
Friday, April 01, 2005

'Reality TV'- scene 1, take 27' , Evening Standard
Wednesday, May 16, 2001

'Resisting the Licence-Fee...", The Sunday Times
Sunday, August 16, 2009

'Royal rumble', The Guardian
Monday, August 15, 2005

'Sacked adviser urges drugs probe' BBC News Online
Thursday, November 19, 2009

'Scoops of the riverbank', The Evening Standard
Wednesday, April 28, 1999

'Sex and the Single Hack', The Independent
Monday, June 26, 2006

'Short Cut: Late-night quiz shows', The Guardian
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

'Sky Arts' (formerly Artsworld), The Independent
Monday, May 08, 2006

'Snap, crackle and pap', The Guardian
Monday, January 15, 2007

'Spoof Controller Blog', The Guardian
Saturday, June 09, 2007

'Stephen Glass', The Independent
Tuesday, November 25, 2003

'Sunday Newspaper Titles Fall Sharply', Sky News
Friday, April 11, 2008

'Testing Time For Commercial Radio', Sky News
Friday, February 08, 2008

'Testing time for Time Out', The Evening Standard
Tuesday, October 05, 1999

'The Battle for Fleet Street...", Total Politics
Monday, September 21, 2009

'The Comedy Manifesto', The Guardian
Monday, June 05, 2006

'The Inside Track', The Guardian
Monday, July 30, 2007

'The politics of publishing...', The Guardian
Monday, March 03, 2008

'The post-Mary Whitehouse exp...', The Guardian
Monday, April 09, 2007

'The traditional Sunday roast', The Independent
Tuesday, November 18, 2003

'The war of the wages', The Guardian
Monday, October 24, 2005

'Toff Attack...' Sky News Online
Thursday, May 29, 2008

'TV industry faces perfect storm', Sky News Online
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

'TV industry's 'bully' blogger...', The Observer
Sunday, November 04, 2007

'TV quiz shows', The Guardian
Monday, September 04, 2006

'Unfriendly Fire (Mid-East)', The Guardian
Sunday, July 30, 2006

'What The Media Makes Of Gordon', Sky News Online
Monday, December 31, 2007

'What the NoW didn't say in court', The Guardian
Monday, April 17, 2006

'What Tyler Brûlé did next', The Guardian
Monday, November 27, 2006

'When Advertising Gets in Your Face', Wired
Thursday, June 04, 2009

'Why London won't listen', The Evening Standard
Wednesday, February 07, 2001

'Why the Sun might dump Brown', The Guardian
Monday, October 15, 2007

'Will Gordon stop the spin?', The Guardian
Monday, June 18, 2007

WIRED 100. No 1: Matt Brittin
Monday, April 19, 2010

'Your phone spies on you', Wired Magazine.
Thursday, June 04, 2009

'You've Been Flamed', The Guardian
Monday, February 09, 2009

INTERVIEWS


AA Gill, The Guardian
Monday, May 07, 2007

Al Franken, The Guardian
Monday, June 27, 2005

Andy Kershaw, The Times
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Boris Johnson, Total Politics
Friday, August 22, 2008

Clive James, The Guardian
Monday, October 23, 2006

Jonathan Cainer, The Independent
Monday, October 24, 2005

Jonathan King, The Guardian
Monday, March 28, 2005

Lord (Norman) Tebbit, Total Politics
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

'Man for Hire', Sky News Online
Friday, June 20, 2008

'Nigel Hastilow: No Regrets', Sky News website
Friday, November 16, 2007

Scott McClellan, Total Politics
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Scott Pack, Sky News Online
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Stelios, The Independent
Monday, June 19, 2006

'The Max Factor', Total Politics
Thursday, June 18, 2009

'Waging A War of Words', Total Politics
Thursday, May 21, 2009

BBC RADIO


'Atlantic City', From Our Own Correspondent, BBC
Sunday, January 09, 2005

'Bullied Teachers', Five Live Report
Sunday, November 12, 2006

'Desecration of Jewish Graves', BBC Five Live Rep
Sunday, March 06, 2005

'Gerrymandering', Radio 4 documentary
Friday, October 08, 2004

'Libya's property spending spree', BBC Radio 4
Thursday, September 10, 2009

'Logging on and Losing Out', ARW (Podcast)
Monday, June 05, 2006

'Missing', Five Live Report
Sunday, July 21, 2002

'Modern Apprenticeships', File on Four (R4)
Tuesday, July 13, 2004

'On Death Row', Five Live Report
Tuesday, October 29, 2002

'PCC', Five Live Report
Sunday, April 25, 2004

Profile: Andy Coulson, BBC Radio 4
Saturday, July 11, 2009

'Profile: Baroness Ashton', BBC Radio 4
Saturday, March 13, 2010

'Rail Misery', Five Live Report/The Observer
Sunday, January 19, 2003

'Teen Online Poker Addicts', Radio 4/The Observer.
Sunday, March 12, 2006

'The Report: Campus Extremism', BBC Radio 4
Thursday, February 04, 2010

'The Report: Prof. Nutt and Cannabis', Radio 4
Thursday, November 19, 2009

'The Report: University Cuts', BBC Radio 4
Monday, April 19, 2010

'The Snapper King', Five Live Report
Thursday, March 21, 2002

LATEST NOTEBOOK


A bitter pill
Saturday, September 06, 2008

A bumper-sticker for recession
Friday, October 03, 2008

A dish best served cold
Sunday, May 11, 2008

A Wapping Decision...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

AA Gill's worst dining experience
Thursday, May 03, 2007

Acting the goat
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Ambushing Doris
Friday, October 12, 2007

Anatomy of an American school shooting
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Angry of Ohio
Saturday, December 22, 2007

BBC Bonuses Again
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Blair's Legacy & The Observer
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Blog Hall of Mirrors
Monday, July 07, 2008

Blond Ambition
Friday, August 22, 2008

British Library Blues
Saturday, July 05, 2008

Brown's Rictus Grin
Friday, May 23, 2008

Carl Bernstein's Club Sandwich
Monday, June 25, 2007

Charisma bypass
Thursday, August 21, 2008

City of doll-houses
Monday, July 21, 2008

David Simon & The Wire
Saturday, February 09, 2008

Downcast of Downing St
Friday, May 09, 2008

Dumb or what?
Friday, June 27, 2008

E List Diary
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Greer on Dylan
Saturday, July 05, 2008

Hacks, Booze and 'live' broadcasting
Sunday, September 02, 2007

Heather Gets Even
Monday, March 17, 2008

Hersh on Iran
Friday, June 27, 2008

'Is Brown on the up?'
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

It's all over now. Or is it?
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Jay-Z, finally
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Lady Fenella and the Duke
Saturday, June 07, 2008

Last one out
Monday, July 07, 2008

Mailer remembered
Saturday, November 10, 2007

Me, me, me
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

'Movies set to boom in Recession'
Monday, December 01, 2008

NBC Cho VT & 'tragedy porn'
Thursday, April 19, 2007

'New York Media Diary'
Sunday, October 05, 2008

'Newspapers face carnage in recession.'
Thursday, October 30, 2008

NI goes cold on Brown
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Ole Poison Fingers
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Paris Burning
Friday, June 29, 2007

Planet Clinton
Sunday, May 25, 2008

'Postcard from The Street of $creams'
Monday, September 22, 2008

'Property Remains A Good Bet'
Thursday, December 04, 2008

Simon Kelner and podcasts
Monday, March 26, 2007

Sindy Redesign
Sunday, June 03, 2007

Slightly less Angry of Ohio
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Sudanese Goat note
Friday, May 04, 2007

The driving-instructor's carrot
Saturday, November 10, 2007

The end of the BBC 'lifer'?
Friday, September 07, 2007

'The New Age of Thrift'
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The PM & Wake Up To Money
Sunday, July 01, 2007

The Viper Room
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Travelodge Nights
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Tusa on Wheeler
Saturday, July 05, 2008

Unfree at last: the sequel
Monday, October 12, 2009

Vacuous Press Releases (no 2)
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Whopper with fries
Friday, June 13, 2008

Woody's best, and worst...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Writing + wall
Monday, August 04, 2008

MEDIA INTERVIEWS


Adam Boulton, The Independent
Monday, April 24, 2006

Adrian Chiles, The Guardian
Monday, August 14, 2006

Alan Edwards, The Guardian
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Alan Hayling, The Guardian
Monday, June 12, 2006

Andy Parfitt, The Evening Standard
Wednesday, October 24, 2001

Ann Leslie, The Independent
Monday, November 21, 2005

'Blogger to launch political mag', Sky News Online
Friday, December 21, 2007

Bob Jeffrey, Sky News Online
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Bob Shennan, The Guardian
Monday, May 21, 2007

Carl Bernstein, The Guardian
Monday, June 25, 2007

Caroline Hawley, the Guardian
Monday, March 13, 2006

Ceri Thomas, The Guardian
Monday, April 10, 2006

Christiane Amanpour: The Independent
Monday, July 10, 2006

Craig Davis, JWT CCO, Sky News Online
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

David Eastman, The Times (Raconteur)
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

David Sullivan, The Independent
Tuesday, April 20, 2004

'Ethical Man', The Guardian
Monday, March 05, 2007

Fraser Nelson, The Guardian
Monday, May 14, 2007

George Pascoe-Watson, The Guardian
Monday, January 02, 2006

'How to save the BBC', Sky News Online
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

'Is this the most dangerous...?', Evening Standard
Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Jackie Newcombe, The Guardian
Monday, June 26, 2006

Jacob Weisberg, The Guardian
Monday, November 27, 2006

James Herring, Sky News Online
Friday, April 18, 2008

Jana Bennett, The Guardian
Monday, September 10, 2007

Jane Moore, The Guardian
Monday, May 22, 2006

Jason Fraser, The Independent on Sunday
Sunday, March 24, 2002

Jeremy Kyle, The Guardian
Monday, May 29, 2006

John Sweeney, The Guardian
Monday, August 20, 2007

John Ware, The Guardian
Monday, August 21, 2006

John Willis, The Guardian
Monday, November 06, 2006

Jon Gaunt, The Guardian
Monday, October 01, 2007

Justin Webb, The Guardian
Monday, January 07, 2008

'Katharine Witty', Sky News Online
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Kevin Bakhurst, The Evening Standard
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Liz Kershaw, The Guardian
Monday, November 05, 2007

Lorraine Candy, The Guardian
Monday, January 21, 2008

Marian Salzman, The Guardian
Monday, January 08, 2007

Martin Bashir, The Guardian
Monday, December 04, 2006

Martin Bright, The Guardian
Monday, August 06, 2007

Martin Townsend, The Independent
Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Matthew d'Ancona, The Guardian
Monday, April 03, 2006

Matthew Parris, The Independent
Monday, July 03, 2006

Max Clifford, The Independent
Sunday, August 14, 2005

Max Hastings, The Times
Friday, February 01, 2002

Melanie Phillips, The Independent
Monday, May 09, 2005

Michael Crick, The Guardian
Monday, April 02, 2007

Mihir Bose, The Guardian
Monday, January 29, 2007

Mike Soutar, Sky News Online
Thursday, April 03, 2008

'Mr. Holy Moly', Sky News website
Monday, November 12, 2007

'My life as Saddam's editor', The Independent
Tuesday, July 08, 2003

Nick Denton, The Guardian
Monday, December 11, 2006

Nick Ferrari, The Independent
Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Paul Rees, Q Magazine editor, Sky News
Thursday, June 12, 2008

Peter Bazalgette, Sky News website
Monday, November 05, 2007

Peter Hitchens, the Guardian
Monday, November 14, 2005

Peter Oborne, The Guardian
Monday, October 30, 2006

Piers Morgan, The Guardian
Monday, March 20, 2006

'Politics from a Privileged Position', Sky News
Friday, May 09, 2008

Polly Gowers: Everyclick.com, Sky News Online
Friday, January 25, 2008

Q&A with Bob Jeffrey, The Times (Raconteur)
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Quentin Letts, The Guardian
Monday, June 19, 2006

'Redoing the Business', The Guardian
Monday, September 17, 2007

Richard & Judy, The Guardian
Monday, February 19, 2007

Richard Bacon, The Guardian
Monday, November 19, 2007

Richard Reed, Sky News Website
Monday, November 26, 2007

Robert Peston, The Guardian
Monday, December 19, 2005

Roger Alton, The Independent
Monday, January 09, 2006

Rory Sutherland, The Guardian
Monday, February 16, 2009

Sally Cartwright, The Independent
Tuesday, February 24, 2004

'Shake-Out Time for Dot-Coms', Sky News Online
Friday, November 30, 2007

Shaun Gregory, O2's MD of Media, Media Week
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Shelly Lazarus, The Guardian
Monday, October 06, 2008

Simon Kelner, The Guardian
Monday, March 19, 2007

Stefano Hatfield, The Guardian
Monday, April 02, 2007

Steve Orchard, The Evening Standard
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Stuart Murphy, The Guardian
Monday, October 15, 2007

The Sun's Page 3 Photographer, Evening Standard
Wednesday, November 08, 2000

Tony Hall, The Guardian
Monday, July 02, 2007

Trevor Kavanagh profile: The Guardian
Monday, April 18, 2005

'Trials and stipulations', The Guardian
Monday, February 14, 2005

Tyler Brûlé, The Guardian
Monday, February 12, 2007

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Guardian
Monday, November 21, 2005

BBC RADIO - REVIEWS


'Memory Wars' (Five Live Rep) , The Guardian
Monday, January 28, 2002

'On Death Row' (Five Live Rep), The Guardian
Monday, October 14, 2002

'Smoking Gun' (Five Live Rep), The Observer
Sunday, April 30, 2000

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