Welcome to the Evening Beast
Grey Cardigan’s column appears every month in Press Gazette. He will also be contributing to a new blog named after…
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Robert Peston: increasingly bizarre on air
I’m becoming concerned for the sanity of BBC News’s business editor Robert Peston. Propelled into the spotlight on an almost…
ByThese days, you can’t sack a piss-pot just because you feel like it
I don’t know the chief sub-editor awarded nearly £21,000 by an employment tribunal after he was unfairly dismissed by Northeast…
BySubs still get stick
We subs still get stick from people who don’t appreciate the craft. Take this comment, from another website: ‘I just…
ByHacks’ best words belong in 60pt
When I walked into The Shivering Whippet after work on Friday evening, Giles Coren’s coruscating criticisms were the main topic…
ByGiles Coren’s rant: ‘over-written, incoherent, bad-tempered, potty-mouthed’
The festering scab that is the relationship between writers and subs is suppurating again after The Guardian resurrected an angry…
ByDealing with a student death
Here at the University of Lincoln, our student newspaper, the Linc, is a baby. We’ve only printed seven issues, and…
ByStudents to get greater say on NCTJ-led courses
Journalism students studying on NCTJ accredited courses will now be able to have their say on how and what they…
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