Alan Rusbridger honoured at British Media Awards
Guardian ex-editor-in-chief recognised for outstanding contribution to UK media industry and promoting open journalism Former Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger is to be recognised for his...
View ArticleAlan Rusbridger will not take up role as chair of the Scott Trust
Former Guardian editor-in-chief had been due to take over from Liz Forgan in SeptemberAlan Rusbridger, the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian, has said he will not take up the role of chairman of...
View ArticleWho are the new kids on the block in investigative journalism?
As we say farewell to Nick Davies, we welcome a new crop of online reporters who are dedicated to his kind of digging and delving One of the constant refrains from veteran - especially retired -...
View ArticleImpress is here to stay. Let’s quit the barricades and think anew about press...
Set the Ipso and Impress editorial codes side by side and no one can see much difference. Apply those codes to current cases and there’s no obvious gap eitherReady, steady, woe! Remember Lord Justice...
View Article'I wanted to take you inside the paper' – a new history of the Guardian
Former readers’ editor Ian Mayes’s book, covering a tumultuous three decades in the newspaper’s history, is nearing completion What have the Unitarian church and the Guardian got in common? Quite a...
View Article‘Creativity squared’: how Peter Preston's G2 sparked a tabloid revolution
It was the late editor’s idea to reconcile ‘pop and posh’ in one much-imitated features section. When the Guardian changes size next week, that spirit will live onOn G2’s 10th anniversary in 2002,...
View ArticleBreaking News by Alan Rusbridger review – the remaking of journalism and why...
The former Guardian editor details a revolution in journalism. Can it still perform its vital, truth-telling role?Truth is a small word liable to sanctimonious overuse and philosophical dispute, but in...
View ArticleSubeditors needed more than ever | Letters
In an era of fake news and haste, careful fact-checking is vital, writes Richard BourneLike former editor of the Guardian Alan Rusbridger (Who broke the news?, The long read, 31 August), I started as a...
View ArticleBreaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan...
Rusbridger’s mission to defend journalistic standards while embracing the new world of social media is at the heart of this compelling memoir of his Guardian years, writes the former Sunday Times and...
View ArticleOxford 'spends £108,000' to recruit each extra low-income student
New figures reveal scale of challenge as pupils from independent schools still over-represented in admissionsOxford University spends more than £100,000 for each additional student from a poor...
View ArticlePauline Willis obituary
To be, in a way, the feminist conscience of the Guardian women’s page in the 1980s was no mean feat. But it was one to which my friend and colleague Pauline Willis, who has died aged 80, was totally...
View ArticleTom Watson is no friend of a free press | Letters
Tim Luckhurst is unimpressed by the former Labour deputy leader’s enthusiasm for state-sanctioned regulation of newspapers, while Nathan Sparkes of Hacked Off says robust, independent regulation must...
View ArticleFacebook judges, journalists and politicians on free speech panel
New independent board, which includes ex-Guardian editor, will rule on freedom of expression issuesFacebook has announced the members of its new oversight board, an international committee of judges,...
View ArticleNews and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger review – an insider's appeal to...
The former Guardian editor’s insights into journalism and how it must regain the public’s trust are perceptive and reflect a chaotic and messy business“Mummy, what is that man for?” was the question...
View ArticleNews and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger review – a captivating A to Z guide
The former Guardian editor offers a compelling tour of journalism and why it mattersMy initiation in the mid-1980s was anything but propitious: “Boy: your piece is full of shit,” an editor at the...
View ArticleAlan Rusbridger says Oversight Board will ask to see Facebook's algorithm
Former Guardian editor, who is on board, says it intends to broaden its remit and examine network’s AIFacebook’s Oversight Board is trying to gain access to the social network’s curation algorithm to...
View Article‘It was exhilarating’: how the Guardian went digital – and global
Former editor Alan Rusbridger looks back on the dawning realisation that news was about to change foreverCelebrate 200 years of independent Guardian journalism, and help power our future – make a...
View ArticleThe rudest things they ever said about the Guardian
This newspaper has upset public figures from Blair to Trump. Here we look at some of the resultant indignationCelebrate 200 years of independent Guardian journalism, and help power our future – make a...
View ArticleHarold Jackson obituary
Chief foreign correspondent of the Guardian in the 1960s, features editor and chief systems editor of the paper in the 80sHarold Jackson, who has died aged 88, was one of the few journalists to have...
View ArticlePolitical journals ring the changes in a battle of ideas – and a fight for...
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...
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