Journalist

Have you ever experienced the feeling at work that everyone around you is unstable? That you're the only level-headed worker in a workplace populated by colleagues whose fits and outbursts are unpredictable, or even psychopathic? ...

For many admirers of Anthony Shadid's reporting, the foreign correspondent's death in Syria earlier this year was a needless tragedy. For at least one member of Shadid's family, the blame for the war reporter's death from an acute asthma attack lies with his employer, The New York Times. On Sunday, according ...

Confession time: I am an unemployed writer. And I couldn't be happier. No, seriously. I couldn't be happier. I've been laid off twice since the Great Recession began and I've gone from being a Jaguar-driving, gourmet-food-shopping, designer-clothes-wearing marketing executive to being a yoga-pants-wearing, ...