Guest post by Ben Lyons What do Blue Peter and John Bercow have in common? Neither of them pay their interns. With an increasingly competitive employment market, getting a job today often relies less on your interview skills than your ability to intern for free. An article in the New Statesman this week highlights this [...]
In Reuben’s last post, he argued that we shouldn’t care that the Observer might be facing the axe (or possibly that we should actively welcome it – it’s not quite clear which). His reasons? First, the Observer’s comment pages are a “stream of unoriginal political clichés”. Second, the Scott Trust runs the paper at a [...]
“It’s an absolutely splendid Newspaper” said an interviewee on last night’s Newsnight. The news that the Observer may close has very quickly sparked off a campaign to save it. In just a a couple of days the “Save the Observer” facebook group has gained nearly 3,000 members, and progressives seem to be rallying round. But [...]
