Straight to your inbox: meet the journalists shaking up local UK news
Local newspapers in the UK are disappearing fast, creating news deserts and leaving councils unscrutinised. Enter a new generation of online reporters…
May 2023
Investigative journalism at risk from ‘corporate timidity’, says Tina Brown
Widow of ex-editor Harry Evans runs foundation supporting original reportage, which is holding first event this week
April 2023
Michael Roberts obituary
Fashion journalist and illustrator who helped transform Tatler magazine into a leading glossy
March 2021
Truth, profits and the purpose of journalism
Letters: Integrity is in short supply in many newsrooms, argues Michael Newman, while Eddie O’Brien says journalists must do more to reflect opposing views in their reports
December 2020
The Observer's obituaries of 2020
Harold Evans remembered by Darren Mansell
The thalidomide campaigner on a ‘true English gent’, the newspaper giant who brought the scandal to the world’s attention