Award in Environmental Journalism for Ilya Gridneff

Ilya has just received an award in environmental journalism for his reporting on the carbon trading market, story here .

Our Man in Port Moresby

Ilya Gridneff, who is now working as Papua New Guinea correspondent for the Australian Associated Press, has started a blog, Papua News Guin...

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Mr Fabulous in PNG the full baby-named-after-Kevin-Rudd/hermaphroditic goat/carjacking story here

McCarthyism de nos jours

Great interview of Tom McCarthy in the Believer . That said, McCarthy sometimes seems not to see his hand in front of his face. He says: TM...

pin factories and such

Via Marginal Revolution, came to a post by Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics on specialisation -- linked, on the one hand, to our failure to s...

Our Man in Port Moresby

My co-author Ilya Gridneff is now in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, having taken up the position of correspondent for the Australian Associ...

Our Man in Port Moresby

IG is about to head off for Papua New Guinea, having been made AAP correspondent in Port Moresby.

Being Ilya Gridneff

It's just under 4 years since I met Ilya Gridneff in an East End pub by Victoria Park. The pub was aggressively organic; two large black...

moments before the midnight to dawn

Many bad developments. E-mails the only good thing. Here's one from IG, who always makes me laugh. May 25 2007 On the way back from an i...