I want to add my voice to those paying tribute to Chris Cramer. He died on January 16th after a long illness. Chris was 73.His long-time BBC colleague, Richard Sambrook, wrote a splendid, heart-felt obituary for the BBC website, Richard considered Ch…
Twenty three years after Princess Diana lost her life in a car crash in the Pont D’Alma tunnel along with her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed, she is still a dominating news presence. Season 4 of Netflix’s The Crown features her doomed relationship with Prin…
Who’d have thought that my new home city Bend, Oregon ( now over 100,000) would make national news spotlighting protestors and ordinary citizens trying to stop ICE from snatching 2 Hispanic men and hiding out in a bus in the middle of a tourist area?…
It was Santiago Lyon's Facebook posting on Sunday that reminded us that 20 years ago two of the best and most respected international journalists, Miguel Gil of AP and Kurt Schork of Reuters, were both killed on the same day in the same place, caught i…
Even I didn’t think that a triumphal Boris Johnson would risk blowing his considerable capital ( he won an 80-seat majority against the hapless Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn) by targeting the BBC. Yet Johnson appears to be doing exactly that. The Murdoch…
Living out here in deepest Oregon, I’m rediscovering just how important a source of international news is is the Al Jazeera English news channel. AJE has done first rate reporting and analysis on President Trump’s ordered killing of Iran’s Soleimani. W…
Very sad news about the death of Ward Just. He died yesterday. His reporting in Vietnam for the Washington Post was hugely admired. But then he gave up journalism to write novels that were always told against the backdrop of history and politics. He cr…
One of the great correspondents of my generation, Joe Schlesinger, died on February 11th at his home in Toronto. He celebrated his 90th birthday last May. This was a milestone that few of us thought that he'd reach given how many physical and health o…
The day after the House of Commons overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister May's Brexit bill, I was in Brussels at an event that had been scheduled long before we knew there'd be this historic vote the night before. Yet there we were celebrating the 20…
I've just finished watching the 4 -part documentary series on the New York Times. It should be mandatory viewing for any aspiring journalist and recommended viewing for citizens wanting to become more media literate. Whatever you think that you knew ab…