The Grey Cardigan 24.02.06
AS THE redundancies at the Evening Beast kick in, the newsroom begins to resemble an airport departure lounge. It’s got…
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The Grey Cardigan 10.02.06
I DON’T suppose that at any point in his young life, Bob Woodward turned to his mother and said: "You…
ByThe Grey Cardigan 03.02.06
THE BASTARDS. They’ve turned down my application for voluntary redundancy and denied me one last big cheque. The reason is…
ByThe Grey Cardigan 27.01.06
IT IS not only at the Evening Beast that jobs are going. Our broadcast colleagues at the local BBC are…
ByThe Grey Cardigan 20.01.06
ONE OF the most valuable lessons I was ever taught was to always look after the secretaries. You see, editors…
ByThe Grey Cardigan 13.01.06
AS ROME burns the Boy Wonder, our 11-year-old editor, reaches for his fiddle. Embattled by falling circulation, imminent redundancies and…
ByThe Grey Cardigan 06.01.06
SO ANOTHER year passes and the distance between the bright young things at the far end of the desk and…
ByThe Grey Cardigan 16.12.05
THERE ARE no real deadlines on regional evening newspapers any more. The subs on the night shift wrap things up…
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