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Posts Tagged ‘Guardian’

The SAS officer, MPs and the Press

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • May 18th, 2009

Am I alone in smelling a red herring being dragged through London newsrooms? The revelation that an ex-SAS officer, John Wick, was the man who hawked the MP’s expenses data just seems too contrived.
The story first appeared on Friday in the Wall Street Journal. It is all too easy to start developing conspiracy theories, but [...]



Great journalism brings in audience as Guardian shows

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Apr 11th, 2009

I have come across some strange work creation schemes but the picture of a policeman with “medic” across his back and his truncheon raised takes the prize. Pity I can’t find it among the Guardian’s web coverage of the aftermath of the G20 protests.
But you can read on line an interesting piece about the way [...]



The mysterious affair of the Guardian leader

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Mar 31st, 2009

Finding out where a business is making a profit or not is always difficult, especially between annual reports. Within groups of companies it is even more difficult even by examining annual reports, let alone between reports. So it is not entirely surprising that that journalists working for for Guardian Media Group in the Manchester area [...]