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Lunch with the FT - David Remnick
Interview with the editor of the New Yorker on his tenth anniversary at the magazine.

A Critic of Sublime Ferocity - Financial Times
Interview with the New Yorker's James Wood.

Stop, Stop Shopping - Financial Times
A profile of the Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.

The Irony of My Life - Financial Times
Interview with Louis Auchincloss.

Fifteen People Who Changed The World - Forbes.com

Dandy with a taste for literary spats - Financial Times
Interview with Tom Wolfe.

The Luxury Lap: Cartier Love with Sarah Jessica Parker and Spike Lee
There was dash, there was swoon, there was confusion and there was envy. But how could there not be on "declare your love" day?

The Luxury Lap: A Portrait of Princess Margaret
Debut column as luxury goods correspondent for the New York Observer.

Untold Tales - Washington Post Book World
A master of the New Journalism looks back at his years of reporting and writing.

Time for the Last Post - Financial Times
Is blogging really an information revolution? Is it about to drive the mainstream news media into oblivion? Or is it just another crock of virtual gold - a meretricious equivalent of all those noisy Internet start-ups that were going to build a brave "new economy" a few years ago? (The Financial Times Magazine also created a temporary blog to discuss the issues raised by this story.)

Pause Celebre - Financial Times
Carlyle's sumptuous prose was rich with them; Evelyn Waugh's fluid reveries depended on them. The semicolon can be as subtle as a breath - so why do Americans hate it so much?

Stylo Gurus - Financial Times
Long since obsolete, fountain pens are now fetishized as a
symbol of luxury as today's craftsmen rediscover the lost art of creating the ultimate writing experience.

Shock Waves - Financial Times
Fears that a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands could send a 25-meter-high tsunami crashing into the US coast have been gaining momentum. But rival scientists dismiss theprediction as a hugely unlikely worst-case scenario.

The Idiot Box - Financial Times
When Americans vote for the president their decision will affect the rest of the world, which makes their ignorance all the more alarming. TV must rise above sound bites and start informing.

Diary of a Madman - Washington Post Book World
An underachiever discovers art behind bars - review of Call Me The Breeze by Patrick McCabe.

Bouncing Back - Washington Post Book World
Review of A Girl Could Stand Up by Leslie Marshall.

Mother Tongues - Washington Post Book World
Review of The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton.

A Genius for Living - Washington Post Book World
Review of The Fly Swatter by Nicholas Dawidoff.

Irish Pastoral - Washington Post Book World
Review of At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill.

Rainbow's End - Washington Post Book World
Review of Coloring the News - How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism by William McGowan.

Look Who's Talking - Washington Post Book World
Review of The Bush Dyslexicon by Mark Crispin Miller.

Not The Time to Cry Censorship - Salon
Of course the public wants to censor journalists. And the media should try to understand why.

No Facts, Please We're British - Salon
Americans are flocking to feisty British papers for news about the war. But there's a reason the U.S. media fails to follow up on the Brit's "scoops" - they're frequently not true.

Adler Agonistes - newswatch.org
Former New Yorker writer Renata Adler claimed that Watergate judge John Sirica had ties to the mob.


 
 

"Is blogging the new journalism?" Debate with Guardian Unlimited editor Emily Bell on the BBC's The World Tonight.

Interview with Andrew Keen about blogging and the future of the media on After TV.

"Ask the expert: should old media embrace the new" - Tom Glocer, chief executive of Reuters, Trevor Butterworth, a regular contributor to the FT Magazine, and Roger Parry of Clear Channel answer questions on how mainstream media should respond to the new digital revolution on the FT.com

"Blogging: 'A Flaccid Dirigible" - interview on Peter Himler's PR blog "The Flack."

"Beeb vs Blair" - discussion with Bob Garfield on NPR's On the Media

"British Papers" - discussion with Bob Garfield on NPR's On the Media
   
 
about

Trevor Butterworth is a regular contributor to the Financial Times Arts and Life section and magazine.

He relaunched the website STATS.org in 2004 with Maia Szalavitz, and Dr. Rebecca Goldin. STATS' mission is to examine the way science and statistics are misreported in the media. It is a non-profit research center affiliated with George Mason University in Virginia.

During Butterworth's tenure as editor, STATS has been cited and published in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, Reason, Salon, Slate, CNN and NPR. The Poynter Institute's Sree Sreenivasan recommended the site as a go-to source for journalists covering numbers and statistics, as did The Wall Street Journal's "Numbers Guy" and the BBC's Open University.

Trevor Butterworth

"charmingly cynical" - Wonkette.com
(photo - Emily Berl, 2007)

In 1998 he helped to create a daily media criticism website called NewsWatch.org. He took over as editor in 1999, The site lost its funding in 2000, was bought and revived and then collapsed again. Here's what some of the critics said:

"The truth is there are few places to get real media criticism...   NewsWatch.org, the site published by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, has been an exception: a daily, reliably objective look into the many missteps of the American press. From West Nile encephalitis hysteria to bogus reports on the drug Ecstasy, NewsWatch called B.S. on the media. 
Ken Layne, USC's Online Journalism Review

"A glance at the Newswatch site reveals a sparse design and rich writing on media topics ranging from ABC's hand-wringing over Leonardo DiCaprio's presidential interview to criticism about the current rage for media criticism -- all handled with style and a wry sense of humor."
Greg Lindsay, "Cult following isn't enough to save NewsWatch," Inside.com

"Sad news: one of the media sites we've admired the most here at Arts & Letters Daily has gone bust. NewsWatch is no more... "
Arts & Letters Daily

"Your material was incisive, thought-provoking and expertly reported. I  always found myself hoping an examination of The Register-Guard's coverage of topics you explored on NewsWatch would indicate we were striving mightily to meet the high standards you set for responsible journalism. Striving being the key word..."
Jim Godbold, Executive Editor, The Register Guard.

Butterworth was born and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. He attended Trinity College Dublin (BA, M.Phil), Georgetown University, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (MS), where he won the Sevellon Brown Award for outstanding knowledge of the history of the American press.

Contact: butterworthy at gmail.com