Point of View
Peter Preston
Columnist Peter Preston is editorial director of the Guardian Media Group and was the chairman of IPI from 1995 to 1997.
Feb. 2011: Foreign news service needed
Nov. 2010: A world of apps and opportunity
Apr. 2010: A Never-ending Debate
Dec. 2009: A rare expert who can't decide
Aug. 2009: Focused newspapers offer hope
Apr. 2009: Trusts aren't financial panacea
Dec. 2008: BBC: Tangling public service
Nov. 2008: Private lives, public information
Jun. 2008: Why editors keep news out
Mar. 2008: Spin Doctors can be friends as well as foes
Dec. 2007: Editor is master of constant ceremonies
Oct. 2007: History's flawed first draft
Public trust is always a worthy fight for journalists.
Jun. 2007: The overwhelming daily routine
To the already overwhelming routine of putting out a print edition, editors must know think about online integration and consider online life from the top down.
Mar. 2007: Good, bad and ugly buyouts
Dec. 2006: Tangles of journalism indecision
Despite facing a time of crisis and confusion, news organizations are choosing to attack one another instead of huddling together.
Apr. 2006: Who should own newspapers - and run them?
Jan. 2006: The freedom not to print
Dec. 2005: May our old mantras be rethought
Non-journalists in a jam must do what a court prescribes. …So why are journalists different?
Sep. 2005: The missing deadline
In an age of instant news and technology, how do journalists keep up?
Apr. 2005: Unstable marital unions
The relationship problems of Democracy and Free Press
Jan. 2005: Preserving today's news for tomorrow's public
Dec. 2004: Beheaded for the cameras
Sep. 2004: Following freedom
Apr. 2004: A friend remembered
Jan. 2004: Black, white but mostly gray
Dec. 2003: How does war change what journalists do?
Sep. 2003: An issue of public trust
Apr. 2003: Questions of war coverage
Jan. 2003: The value of free news
Dec. 2002: Journalists need to change with the business
Sep. 2002: Sometimes less is more
Apr. 2002: Just the facts...?
Jan. 2002: Learning from September 11
Dec. 2001: The tyranny of our own insatiable demands
Sep. 2001: Let nation speak freely unto nation
Apr. 2001: Reports of newspapers' death exaggerated
Jan. 2001: Beware of reporting with the pack
Dec. 2000: Round-the-clock news around the world
Sep. 2000: Rough, raw and brutal trade
Jan. 2000: Tainted journalists
Power, politics, money create spin doctors
Dec. 1999: Global conscience keepers
Journalists on the frontiers of civilization
Sep. 1999: African Women's Crusade
Female reporters confront old stereotypes