newspapers in print but that i read the rest digitally. let's start, let's turn to how you ended up as one of the most seniorfigures in fleet street. you were born in south africa and moved to the uk as a child. what was it that drove you to become a journalist in the first place? well, when i was 19, i went to what was then southwest africa to work as a volunteer teacher. i was meant to go up to the border — angola but the authorities then were south africa, they governed southwest africa, now namibia. so i couldn't go up and teach there so i set up a library in the capital. while i was there one of the people i was working with got expelled by the south africans. and he was a stringer for the bbc world service and bbc africa service. hejust handed it to me. i knew nothing about journalism. the only thing i knew was what my father told me, dog bites man is not a story, man bites dogs is a story. i had to learn very