Times change. Technologies change. Principles don't. My essay to celebrate the Guardian's 200th birthday today
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Katharine Viner
@KathViner
Editor-in-chief, Guardian News & Media
theguardian.comJoined March 2009
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I’ve been thinking about this piece for a year. There’s so much more I could say. The only thing that matters is that Martha should be alive today…
‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’: how shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death
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After nearly six years as The Guardian's bureau chief in Brussels, I head back to London to take up role of Chief Reporter. Been a blast.
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🗞Some personal news- I’m so excited to be joining ’ incredible Investigations Team. A real dream-come-true role. I’m starting in a few weeks time… eyes/DMs always open for ideas/tips!
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🚨Belated personal news: Very very pleased to have joined the wonderful investigations team at The Guardian under . I'm going to be focussing on politics but interested in other areas too so please do get in touch if you have a tip or a story: henry.dyer@theguardian.com
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To my delight I’m joining the ’s legendary investigations team. Formidable reporters helmed by .
I start in spring after writing a book about the truth and who gets to tell it.
DMs are open, contact details on my website: tell us what needs to come out.
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Some super exciting personal news...... I'm joining the Guardian's amazing investigations team as the deputy editor from November. Can't wait to get going.
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Fantastic news! Guardian Media Group appoints Anna Bateson as chief executive
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Some news 🚨📰 📘
Very excited to be joining the Guardian this autumn as its City Editor.
I’ll be following the money through banks, corporates and, of course, keeping an eye on routes into Westminster.
Keep in touch via DM or trucker3@protonmail.com
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The @guardian appoints Anna Isaac to the newly-created role of city editor on its business desk. Read more here 
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🚨Today is my first day in new job as Political Editor of . Excited to get going! As ever, my DMs are open and I'm on Signal if you'd like to get in touch. I always protect my sources 📩📄📸
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Months of hard work from the Guardian's investigations team led by , our business team led by & many other brilliant journalists around the world reporting on this jaw-dropping story
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Today we launch the #UberFiles – a global investigation based on 124,000 documents leaked to the revealing how Uber broke laws, duped police and built a secret lobbying operation
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Terribly sad news about our former Guardian colleague Susie Steiner, who became a very successful novelist and was always a talented writer and editor. She was also great fun.
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Novelist and former Guardian journalist Susie Steiner dies at 51 theguardian.com/books/2022/jul
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There is a war on nature. Dom Phillips was killed trying to warn you about it. Powerful and loving piece by .
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The worst news: two bodies found in search for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in Brazil
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Arron Banks loses libel action against reporter Carole Cadwalladr
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What a hero. Bruno Pereira: the dedicated defender of Indigenous rights missing in Brazil
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Dom Phillips: editors around world urge Bolsonaro to do more to find missing journalist
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At the Guardian we remain very concerned about the safety of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira #Brazil
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Please read this thread. We are very concerned about our colleague Dom's welfare
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Dom Phillips, a trusted, long-term freelance contributor for the Guardian, has reportedly gone missing while researching for his book in the Brazilian Amazon’s Javari Valley.
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Thrilled to announce that the Guardian’s investigation team is expanding. We’re recruiting several new journalists, including a deputy investigations editor and a number of correspondents. Full details here, thread to follow.
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I’m delighted to announce that is to join the Guardian as political editor. Pippa has a remarkable track record of exclusives and has set the political agenda time and again. She joins us later this year
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Guardian, FT and Mirror journalists 'excluded' from Home Secretary’s Rwanda trip: pressgazette.co.uk/guardian-ft-mi - via:
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Our new daily newsletter, First Edition, is free in your inbox at 7am. Headlines, original reporting, occasional jokes, Guardian journalists helping you make sense of the news. It launches Monday. Please sign up early and often and also tell your friends!!
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A lot of reporters give up when they're told they can't have a document. Kudos to for sticking at this and winning a legal battle that sets a useful precedent for future journalists who want access to papers referred to in employment tribunals.
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The British government has done all it can to protect tax haven secrecy - which is making it quite hard to enforce sanctions against Putin's oligarchs right now.
So the has teamed up with and 25 other media to work out who owns what. #RussianAssetTracker
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The Guardian has won a Bafta! For the superb film, The Black Cop, directed by . Congratulations to the team!
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Bit of personal news from me: after 6 mad, wonderful years as political editor, I'm breaking out of Westminster.
I'll be the Guardian's new special correspondent - reporting on how the pandemic, and Brexit, are changing lives and livelihoods; and keeping an eye on "levelling up".
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Wonderful to see the Pegasus project win the Technology Reporting category at the George ! Congratulations to all at the and our reporting partners who helped bring this powerful investigation to millions of readers around the world
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Wow. Less than 24 hours after the Credit Suisse leak, the powerful centre-right block in the European Parliament raises the idea of adding Switzerland to an EU blacklist to prevent money laundering. That would put it in league with Iran and North Korea.
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Revealed: a huge leak from one of the world's biggest private banks, Credit Suisse, reveals customers involved in torture, trafficking, money laundering, corruption, war crimes. Great collaboration with our friends at and others
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'The UK courts have now presented the powerful with a path to keep their names out of print for years'. A vital comment on public interest journalism from Bloomberg's editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait:
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Guardian documentary The Black Cop nominated for a BAFTA Film Award
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Lovely obituary of our fabulous former newsdesk colleague, Lorry Leader
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