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Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart

Articles by Brian Cathcart

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Keeping Madeleine's profile high

  • 28 May 2007

Alastair Campbell may not be involved, but the news management in Praia da Luz has been as sophisticated as any we have seen

The price of cast iron

  • 21 May 2007

Few people notice Reuters, but it is a very big player in global news and its independence matters. Now the guarantees that were once presented as cast-iron seem certain to vanish in a takeover worth more than £8bn

Friends in unexpected places

  • 14 May 2007

Which newspaper declared that "whatever happens, Gordon Brown will be one day remembered as a great chancellor"? Wrong. The answer is the Daily Mail. Surely this love affair can't last

Sources, smears and coded messages

  • 07 May 2007

The Met's most senior anti-terrorist detective says irresponsible leaks are putting lives at risk. So how can we find out who these leakers are? I know, let's ask a detective

There has never been a better time to die

  • 30 April 2007
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The maharajah who permitted garlic, the bouncing diva and the teenage groupie who kissed John Gielgud's knob - all signs that we live in the golden age of the newspaper obituary

A sudden case of collective reverse ferret

  • 23 April 2007

One moment wedding bells were ringing. The next, it was all over for Kate and her prince. The Sun's royal scoop caught everyone on the hop, and the result was . . . well, unattributable

Why dead Arabs come last

  • 16 April 2007

The rules that determine whose story leads the front page and who gets buried on page 14 can be racist, sexist, chauvinist and snobbish, but the readers are as much to blame as the editors

The naming of Faye Turney

  • 09 April 2007

The Iranians may have paraded her on television, but not before the British press and British television had shown us - and them - just how vulnerable she was

When journalism is powerless

  • 02 April 2007
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Despite years of fine reporting and many furious editorials, the bloodshed continues in Darfur and Mugabe hangs on in Zimbabwe.

Still losing money after all these years

  • 26 March 2007

Profit is everything to Rupert Murdoch, and yet, after more than a quarter of a century, he still can't get the Times into the black. The man has just turned 76; what is he waiting for?

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