As the year draws to a close, here is a look back, in no particular order, at some new(-ish) journalistic terms that often cropped up in headlines in 2013.
This week, all ten French presidential candidates were interviewed on prime time TV. Afterwards, two political journalists were called upon to analyse their performances for viewers - and one of the two managed to kick up a huge stink online...
Amid all the recent excitement about Marks & Spencer reopening in Paris - on the chic Champs Elysées, no less – I feel somewhat less attention has been paid to events happening on the floors above M&S.
Wednesday saw some good news for a change: the release of the two French journalists, Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, who had been held hostage in Afghanistan for the past 18 months. I was at work when the news broke.
Last year, when Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad published an incriminating story, he was summoned for “a discussion” by the ISI. Now with the news of his gruesome killing, all eyes are on the ISI.
Britain was shocked to learn this week that the prime minister’s new cat had been accidentally stolen. But except for extreme-cat-lovers, the tale of Larry the tabby was far more sinister than it at first seemed...
While President Felipe Calderon emphasized on Friday on the value of democracy, in the framework of the Iberoamerican summit that is underway in Argentina,...
