This is my final column for this newspaper, which I have enjoyed doing over the years. I thought it appropriate to reflect on a few special moments along the wa...
“One danger of reduced news coverage is to the integrity of government. It is not just a speculative proposition that corruption is more likely to flourish when...
It has been more than a decade since the newspaper business was rocked to its foundations by the Great Recession and the ascent of the web. Stability, not to me...
The never-ending, cyber-space stampede of information sweeping across our planet daily has created new challenges for journalists around the world. The basic pr...
Sometimes journalists just don’t do a very good job of explaining their craft to the public. For example, I realised with a shock not too long ago that many peo...
Journalists, of all people, should understand the First Amendment. But, no. Too many of us appear to believe that reporters have an exalted, protected status in...
Roger Daltrey of The Who sang it with a full-throated scream in 1971: “We won’t get fooled again!”
And yet, we still do. Oh, do we ever.
Remember this one from ...
Fresh historical research has revealed that one of Bermuda’s prominent journalists was also a direct descendant of ex-slaves.
Samuel Seward “S.S.” Toddings, pub...
Enterprising brothers Raziah and Jalair Trott-Richardson were determined not to be among the students who sat around twiddling their thumbs all summer — and the...