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In defence of Peter Prestonâs handling of the Sarah Tisdall case The editorâs decision to return the leaked documents was made after agonised deliberations and much consultation with staff, writes the Guardianâs former deputy editor David McKie Sarah Tisdall, a clerical officer at the Foreign Office, was jailed in 1984 for breaching the Official Secrets Act after leaking government documents to the Guardian. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian Sarah Tisdall, a clerical officer at the Foreign Office, was jailed in 1984 for breaching the Official Secrets Act after leaking government documents to the Guardian. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian ....
Composite: Guardian Design/The Guardian Guardian journalists on the role of their outfits in their reporting, and the importance of pockets Sat 8 May 2021 03.00 EDT What do you imagine journalists wear to work? Three-piece vanilla silk suits, like Tom Wolfe? Robert Redford’s Wasp-y needlecord in All the President’s Men? Or something uniquely earth-tone like Paddy Considine’s “Guardian” reporter in The Bourne Ultimatum? The late journalist Betty Jerman, who joined the paper in 1951 and worked simultaneously as secretary and columnist, once said of her “rather shabby” male colleagues: “You had the feeling they weren’t terribly interested in looking smart. They were more interested in what they were writing.” ....
Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 03.37 EDT Fifty years ago, as the Guardian marked its 150th birthday, the then editor, Alastair Hetherington, reflected on the changes he had seen since he joined the paper 21 years earlier. Intriguingly, he singled out social forces striving to upset “racial harmony”, and promised resistance. But in the same 1971 edition, a gallery of images of the senior staff showed how far the paper had to go. All men. All white. In its first 150 years, the number of journalists of colour employed by the paper could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Unsurprisingly for a 200-year-old institution, the Guardian has not always got it right in terms of race coverage. An early article from 1823 regretted the “cruelty and injustice of negro slavery”, but also noted that “amongst all the obvious disadvantages of slave labour, there is none more striking than its tendency to deteriorate the soil”. That set the tone for decades of coverage tha ....
A crystal ball was – at least at the outset – not required. A trip to the US in 1993 to “see the internet” left me in no doubt: the days of the daily printed newspaper were numbered. Once people learned about this thing they were calling the “world wide web”, there would be no going back. It might take 10 years, it might take 50, but it was clear that the future was digital. If that much seemed obvious, everything else was a mist of. ....