On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin 1986-2012 – review
The powerful reportage of a friend and rival is greater than the sum of its partsTo read a great newspaper reporter's work in a collected volume is entirely different from the cumulative effect of the articles over time. One gets a sense – perhaps a ...
Leveson inquiry: the musical – video
An auto-tuned hip-hop extravaganza starring Alastair Campbell, Charlotte Church, Hugh Grant, Rupert Murdoch, Kelvin MacKenzie and many more
10 book-apps that might change Julia Donaldson’s mind about Gruffalo apps
Author isn't keen on the idea, but perhaps if she saw what some developers have been doing...The Gruffalo deserves its status as one of the most popular children's books in the world: beautiful illustrations, but beautiful words too.The rhythm and rhym...
Gabriel García Márquez falls victim to Twitter death hoax
A Twitter account claiming to belong to Italian author Umberto Eco reported the death of Márquez, who is said to be visiting family in AmericaRumours of the death of the great Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez have been, in the immortal word...
Every data journalism book since 1970: interactive timeline
Dutch investigative reporter Henk van Ess has created this guide to data journalism in books, from 1970 to 2012. It shows how the field has changed, from 'precision reporting' to 'computer assisted reporting' to 'data journalism'. Oh and it includes ou...
BBC archive director to move to British Library
Roly Keating, the BBC's director of archive content and a former controller of BBC2 and BBC4, to become chief executive of the British LibraryThe BBC's director of archive content, Roly Keating, is to leave the corporation after 29 years to become chie...
A week in radio: Saturday Live
Irksome David Cassidy was a nightmare booking and the last thing the newly extended Saturday Live needed in its first 90-minute incarnation"We are," David Cassidy told new co-hosting duo Sian Williams and Richard Coles on Saturday Live (Radio ...
Warning: review quotes can be very misleading
We see quotes from critics plastered all over adverts, posters and book jackets. But is their use always what it seems?The novelist Anthony Horowitz should not really have been surprised when some choice lines from an interview he conducted with Jeffre...
Student publishes a new Shakespeare text
We're not talking First Folio, mind. This is the world of 2b r nt 2b - but with the highest of motivesWilliam Shakespeare's reputation has little to fear from history, but even so it's nice to know that he has got a Yorkshire student at Northumbria uni...
What is left unsaid is often more powerful and poetic | Biljana Scott