An open letter to the Independent about reporting the royal baby news
by Martin Belam, September 9, 2014 If your schtick is that you don’t make a big fuss about reporting news about the royal family, then tweeting out that that you didn’t make a big fuss about it with a #RoyalBaby hashtag appears to be self-defeating
How the @Independent newspaper reported the #RoyalBaby news pic.twitter.com/FRHP8ipQhD
— The Independent (@Independent) September 9, 2014
Go back to doing that.
by Martin Belam, September 9, 2014 I do live blogging, news stories and quizzes at the Guardian, and help cover Eurovision and Doctor Who for them too. As a journalist and designer I’ve spent over twenty years building digital products for the likes of Sony, the Guardian, the BBC, the Natural History Museum, Arts Council England and Reach (formerly Trinity Mirror). You can contact me at martin.belam@theguardian.com. Sign up to get my blog posts sent to you via email.