Our head of editorial innovation speaks to Tony Ageh, who performed a similar role 30 years ago when the internet was in its infancy and experimentation was everythingIt is eight minutes into my interview with Tony Ageh and I’ve managed to ask just one…
‘We never went home before 10pm’: 50 years of reporting on politics and power
Our chief political correspondent compares notes on the chaos, the glamour, the scoops, with her predecessor Julia LangdonLobby journalism is a constant battle of contradictions – and that’s before you get to Boris Johnson.On the one hand, it’s a glamo…
Reporting on the climate crisis: ‘For years it was seen as a far-off problem’
Our correspondent talks to her predecessor about how global heating went from a ‘slow burn’ to the biggest story of allDevastating floods across Europe, killer heatwaves in Canada, wildfires across the US. Extreme weather has hit the headlines across t…
The Guardian’s first Tech editor: ‘They gave me a demo and showed me things I couldn’t believe’
Victor Keegan, the correspondent who went on to put the first Guardian content online, recalls the chance news item in 1981 that opened up the possibilities of home computing and kicked off the paper’s dedicated coverage of a social revolutionTechnolog…
Tokyo Olympics was a 16-day adrenaline rush but also a lesson in rights and wrongs | Sean Ingle
The athletes and their performances dazzled, but it is vital to look beneath the surface and ask questions others will notMy Olympics gone by, I miss it so. And despite the Kafkaesque bureaucracy, the hard quarantine, the endless spitting into test tub…
The changing art of the subeditor: ‘You had to read the type upside down’
A deputy news production editor at the Guardian speaks to colleagues about how cutting and correcting copy has evolved over decadesThe internet may have revolutionised the media in the 21 years since I joined the Guardian, but my role as a subeditor ha…