Peter Jones

Ancient & Modern | 12 September 2009

Peter Jones on how the Ancient Greeks would regard blogs

issue 12 September 2009

The question mark hanging over the very existence of newspapers raises the question: is there a future for the written word? BBC business editor Robert Peston is certain there is: in a recent lecture, he says that the blog is at the very heart of his work, enabling him to ‘share information — some of it hugely important, some of it less so — with a big and interested audience’.

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