Paper Monitor
12:29 UK time, Monday, 6 June 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's hard work in the world of newspapers. Year after year of long hours and an ever more parlous labour market.
So when newspapers get things right they like to have a little blow of their own trumpet.
The Sunday Times was at it yesterday. The paper has always had a reputation for investigative journalism, a legacy of its famous Insight team.
And the holy grail of investigative journalism is actually affecting things out there in the real world. The Sunday Times happily reports everything going on at Fifa, noting that the much-maligned world football body has already changed its voting system as a direct result of the newspaper's investigation.
But that's small beer compared with the joy over the fact that Camilla Long's profile of Hugh Hefner had resulted in Playboy's powers-that-be taking a very frosty attitude towards British journalists in general in the run-up to their UK club launch.
And in the Independent today there's a journalist who both got it right, and also extremely wrong.
The newspaper's racing tipster predicted the top three at the Derby, sensing that Pour Moi would win and the much-favoured Carlton House, belonging to the Queen, would only manage third. The odds of the 1-2-3 were 707-1.
Unfortunately the pundit, Chris McGrath, did not put any money on. Gutted.
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