Daily Archives: 5 March 2007

Hindu ombudsman’s column to be fortnightly

After just 51 weeks, The Hindu‘s Reader’s Editor K. Narayanan has announced in his Monday column today that henceforth ‘Online and Off Line’, his weekly conversation with readers, will now appear once every two weeks. Is that because the ombudsman was doing a good job? Or because it was getting too tiresome? Or what? Read…

ANDREW MARR: How to read a newspaper

Few memoirs in recent times have been as heart-warmingly self-effacing as Andrew Marr‘s My Trade. Tongue firmly wrapped in cheek, the BBC’s former political editor, who edited The Independent, London, for a while, provides a witty insider’s account of the journalist’s trade. Here, in these edited excerpts, Marr tells us how to separate the wheat…