British Press Awards 2009: nominations
Interviewer of the year Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian Elizabeth Day, The Observer Ginny Dougary, The Times Lynn Barber, The Observer Robert Chalmers, Independent on Sunday
Category: News
Tony Blair
Guardian – January 30, 2009 I suffer doubts over Iraq war, says Tony Blair Telegraph – January 30, 2009 Tony Blair admits daily doubts about the war in Iraq Evening Standard – January 30, 2009 TONY Blair has admitted he suffered doubts over Iraq in an interview with Ginny Dougary in The Times and he …
Murder, she wrote
When Felix Dennis ‘confessed’ to Ginny Dougary that he had killed a man, the interviewer faced a decision: file the sensational exclusive or fast-forward the tape. She has no doubts that she made the right choice. My phone was pretty busy in the after-math of the publication of my interview with Felix Dennis, in which …
The fine art of extracting an interview bombshell
The Guardian – Stephen Moss. ‘I once killed a man.” It’s not a bad headline to put over an interview – in this case the estimable Ginny Dougary’s interview with Felix Dennis in the Times yesterday. Her paper obviously thought it was pretty good, too, as it slapped a photograph of the millionaire publisher on …
Felix Dennis: ex-addict, poet – and murderer?
He has been jailed for obscenity, overcome an enthusiastic addiction to crack cocaine, and become a best-selling poet. But has he also killed a man? That was the dramatic claim made by the multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis in a newspaper interview published yesterday, a statement he has since retracted, describing it as “a load of …
Did maverick magazine mogul Felix Dennis murder a man 25 years ago?
‘I killed him,’ Dennis told interviewer Ginny Dougary from The Times at his Warwickshire mansion. ‘That’s all you need to know.’ Read the entire story at The Daily Mail >>
The need to share a dark secret
BBC News, Friday, 4 April 2008 – Julian Joyce Multi-millionaire poet and publisher Felix Dennis has retracted a drunken murder “confession” made to a newspaper journalist. But even if Mr Dennis’s words turn out to be – as he says – “a load of hogwash”, how unusual is it for genuine murderers to risk their …
The Times is shortlisted for 11 British Press Awards
Ginny Dougary is nominated as Interviewer of the Year >> Read more >>
Enough, says Amis, in Eagleton feud
Warring professors of cultural theory and creative writing fight themselves to a standstill over Islam. Maev Kennedy, The Guardian. Martin Amis, interviewed by Ginny Dougary, Times, September 2006. ‘Moderate Islam is always deceptively well-represented on the level of the op-ed page and the public debate; elsewhere it is supine and inaudible.’
Tebbit hits out at Tories and names Brown as Thatcher’s natural heir
News story on Dougary’s interview with Norman Tebbit. Lord Tebbit gave Mr Cameron another pre-conference jolt. He said that Baroness Thatcher knew exactly what she was doing when she visited the Prime Minister at Downing Street two weeks ago. She was aware that Mr Cameron had been at pains to distance himself from her, the …