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Market sentiment
The history of Newsnight's nightly markets update has not always been a happy one. On Thursday we reported that in New York the "Dow Jones was substantially down amidst more credit crunch fears"....
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'Disastrous misjudgement?'
Last night on Newsnight, Dean Godson of the think tank Policy Exchange accused me personally (watch it here) of making a "disastrous editorial misjudgement" and of "appalling stewardship of Newsnight"....
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A published response
The Daily Telegraph's Charles Moore wrote in the paper on Saturday criticising Newsnight for our coverage of the Policy Exchange story. Today the paper has published our account of what happened - you...
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Newsnight's X Factor
The magazine publisher David Hepworth - on his generally rather good blog And Another Thing - has a go at last night's Newsnight send-up of the Lib Dem leadership contest as the X Factor. He asks,...
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Isn't life grand?
I always buy the Daily Mail to read on the Tube on the way to work, and it seems our colleagues at the Mail always watch Newsnight too. This appears to be primarily so the Ephraim Hardcastle column can...
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News at 10.30
You couldn't open a newspaper this week without bumping into coverage of the battle of the Newses at Ten. On the bulletins themselves, ITN and the BBC battled to outdo each other with a series of...
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Are we unfair to MPs?
One or two of you have written to us this week to complain that we're unfair to politicians, assuming they're up to no good and generally giving them a hard time. It is true we've done an awful lot of...
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Making Newsnight unmissable
I was at a fascinating BBC2 marketing event this morning, complete with bean bag seating, live acapella singing and lots of facts and figures about the Channel's audience. Against the received wisdom...
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10 days to war
Next week on Newsnight we're making our foray into drama with a series of films entitled 10 Days to War. This may prove controversial, but we hope it will also open up the debate about the war in Iraq...
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Going Carla crazy
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a French diplomat about the forthcoming Presidential visit to Britain about what the key issues might be. I struggled to think where points of controversy might...
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UGC on Newsnight
We've often had debates among the staff (and presenters) of Newsnight about the value of user generated content (watch Jeremy Paxman's views here). In general we think our viewers don't particularly...
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By-election saddos
Last night on Newsnight we set out to establish what was the most significant by-election of the post-war period - a subject close to many of our hearts here. Newsnight staffers have had a long...
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Frank exchange
You may remember a row which developed in December last year between Newsnight and the influential centre-right think tank Policy Exchange following an investigation we did into their report called The...
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On the line and on the level
The phone rings. There's an inquisitive and irrepressible journalist on the line. He appears to have an agenda and seems determined to produce a damaging piece, whatever the facts. I'm not talking...
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Farewell
Ok then, I'm off. After four years at Newsnight this is my final editor's blog. I'm off to Google, which has provoked some head scratching in the blogosphere. My reasoning was pretty straightforward -...
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