Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2012
Posts (14)
The Olympics comes back to White City
Our office at White City in West London was built on the site of the stadium used for the 1908 London Olympics.
Let's see a more rounded picture of MPs and others in authority
The details of some expenses claims by MPs were truly shocking and deserved to be probed and reported.
Twenty dates every journalist should know
A few key dates in your head can help you to orient yourself around new information about when things happened.
This week at the College of Journalism: going undercover, plus bishops and pickpockets
With the Syrian regime under mounting pressure, the BBC correspondent Paul Wood explained how he worked undercover to reveal some of the atrocities that took place in Homs.
A simple truth about women bishops
Explaining religion to a secular society is often difficult, but the fractious debate in the Church of England about women bishops makes our duty of accuracy and impartiality a particular challenge.
How I found criminals who are happy to be filmed - and are heading to the Olympics
I am in Barcelona with my film crew and I am about film a gang of pickpockets.
Britain’s appetite for celebrity news: an effect of supply or demand?
A few weeks after I joined the Sunday Times in 1969 as a young graduate, the incomparable Nicholas Tomalin wrote his famous essay about the trade of journalism.
Is Google culture right for news journalism?
The forward-thinking crowd at News Rewired was rightly excited by the possibilities of technology as it transforms journalism, both in its practice and its consumption.
Journalism or technology? The Post’s techy experiments
We were in a stuffy conference room off Victoria Street in London but if you drifted off you might have dreamt you were in Silicon Valley listening to some well-worn techie truisms.
A new tool to monitor Twitter reaction to the Russian floods
BBC Monitoring is carrying out a three-month trial of ForSight, a tool to monitor social media.
