David Aaronovitch on Substack launch, Times exit and freedom to write about Murdoch

Aaronovitch has launched his own Substack, Notes From The Underground, since leaving The Times in March.

David Aaronovitch hates it when people leave an organisation after many years and go on to “bitch” about their old employer.

He makes clear during an interview with Press Gazette that he has no hard feelings towards The Times, where he wrote a weekly column for 18 years until he got fired in March. But he is a little miffed by the nature of his departure.

Speaking to Press Gazette’s Future of Media Explained podcast, Aaronovitch said he was disappointed to learn of his departure from HR rather than from new editor Tony Gallagher himself: “People have to do things in the way in which they want to, but it’s not the way I would choose to do it.”