General Journalism

 

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Whenever I walk down Fleet Street now, with its frothing sea of coffee shops, I think of Nat Rothman, Sunday People leader writer and qualified lawyer. Nat liked to eat in upmarket restaurants in the Street and would always request, at the end of...

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Making a Splash

It was the dream and ambition of most reporters to get the splash – the lead story on the front page, and the most important story in the paper that week.

As time went by it began to look as though I probably never would have one. I was grandly...

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Prime Minister’s Daughter in Live Sex Show – how Carol Thatcher first hit the headlines.

Carol Thatcher is rarely out of the news these days, but she might like to draw a veil over the incident that first put her on the front page. Or, maybe, seven veils ..

It was September 1984. The country was embroiled in the miners’ strike and...

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Anne Scott-James Obituary

Anne Scott-James, one of the outstanding women journalists of her day and an early star profiled in Ladies of the Street, has died aged 96. Although she had a privileged start, coming from a family of writers and educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School...

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