Bored working in a law firm in Brussels, I filled my time writing anonymously online about love, life – and how dull my job was. Then my colleagues found my posts …I wouldn’t say I was a model employee in the law firm where I worked for nearly 10 yea…
Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal
Future continues buying spree with purchase of 12 titles including The Week and Computer ActiveFuture, the owner of titles including Country Life and Metal Hammer, has acquired the publisher of magazines including The Week and Minecraft World in a £300…
‘Saddam Hussein’s spies in London laid a trap – and sent my son Farzad to his death’
Nosrat Bazoft, mother of the Observer reporter executed by the tyrant in 1990, reveals for the first time how the unreported theft of a briefcase of documents on a secret Iraqi weapon may have sealed her son’s fate.Leaning back in a loose cotton shirt …
BBC journalist speaks of ‘increasingly repressive’ Russia ahead of expulsion
Sarah Rainsford says she is caught up in wider diplomatic game as country ‘turns in on itself’A senior BBC journalist who is to be expelled from Russia has condemned “an increasingly repressive environment” for critical journalists in the country.Sarah…
Nicaraguan police raid opposition newspaper La Prensa
Only remaining print paper raided as part of ‘customs fraud and money laundering’ investigationNicaraguan police have raided the offices of the main opposition newspaper La Prensa.The national police said the raid on Friday was part of an investigatio…
UK agrees to consider providing safe haven for Afghan journalists
U-turn over those who worked for British media follows outcry from newspapers and broadcastersThe foreign secretary has agreed to consider allowing Afghan journalists who worked for the British to flee to the UK if their lives are endangered by the res…
Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art
When a lewd cartoon of Rupert Bear landed the editors of the 60s counterculture paper in court, David Hockney, John Lennon, Robert Crumb and more made some of their most urgent art in response“What do you suppose is the effect intended to be of equippi…
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…
Political journals ring the changes in a battle of ideas – and a fight for readers
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger’s arrival at Prospect is part of a trend that is raising the stakes of debate in BritainThe battle between Britain’s political magazines has intensified this summer as editorial changes at leading names on the new…
Video of crime reporter Peter R de Vries after he was shot linked to killers
Two men were standing by to film murder of Dutch journalist as part of plan to post footage online, say policeFootage of the Dutch crime reporter Peter R de Vries taken shortly after he had been shot in the head in central Amsterdam is thought to have …