Caroline Crampton, The Guardian

Caroline Crampton

The Guardian

United Kingdom

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Recent:
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Past:
  • The Guardian
  • Nieman Lab
  • New Statesman

Past articles by Caroline:

In Good Hands by Alice Farnham review – notes from the podium

A leading female conductor tells her story and offers tips for aspiring ‘arm-flappers’ → Read More

Every Good Boy Does Fine by Jeremy Denk review – a virtuosic memoir

The concert pianist’s account of striving for musical mastery sits alongside a stirring coming of age narrative → Read More

Honkaku: a century of the Japanese whodunnits keeping readers guessing

These fiendishly clever mystery novels have spawned pop culture icons, anime and a museum. And, best of all, honkaku plays fair – you have the clues to solve the crime → Read More

With masks and sanitized mics, podcast pros tiptoe back into in-person interviews » Nieman Journalism Lab

Plus: "The H&M of audio drama," Apple News Today, and Gimlet's accessibility lawsuit. → Read More

“Take after take just gets nuked”: Podcaster parents, working from home while caring for kids, are burning out » Nieman Journalism Lab

Plus: A look at how the pandemic has affected podcast advertising in the U.S., and SiriusXM's acquisition of Stitcher is official. → Read More

Is Apple slacking in its role as Benign Overlord of Podcasting? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Plus: Sony keeps investing in podcast companies, more changes at the BBC, and the state of podcast mercy. → Read More

Open or closed: Who will control the paid-podcast experience, podcasters or tech companies? » Nieman Journalism Lab

PodPass gets some positive early reviews. Also: a new network for kids' audio, the CBC translates podcasts to TV, and are daily news shows having any real-world impact? → Read More

Top 10 books about the River Thames

From bucolic source to marshy lower reaches, London’s mighty river has inspired great writing → Read More

Planting seeds: The new Podfund wants to invest in early-stage podcasts » Nieman Journalism Lab

Plus: Luminary fixes its link issue, an NPR snafu blows up your podcast app, and how a British soccer show went indie. → Read More

The great British brush-off: The BBC and Google are fighting over who gets to control the podcast experience » Nieman Journalism Lab

Which is more important for a public broadcaster: distributing its content as widely as possible or putting its own interests above a tech company's? → Read More

The best podcasts of 2018

From Sandra to Mostly Lit. → Read More

The Guardian is getting into the daily news podcast game — here’s what it learned the last time it tried » Nieman Journalism Lab

"If you didn’t read The Guardian or know anything about it, you should be able to listen to that podcast and get an idea of the stories we thought were important. We certainly tried to reflect The Guardian’s values." → Read More

The Sing of the Shore by Lucy Wood review – a different view of Cornwall

Empty holiday homes, bored teenagers, missing people … these out-of-season short stories become heart-thumping miniature thrillers → Read More

SRSLY #134: The Oscars / This Country / Shakespeare and Hathaway

The pop culture podcast with Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz. → Read More

Combating smartphone addiction: taking back control of your phone – and your mind

App designers manipulate the way our brains work to keep us hooked. → Read More

SRSLY #129: The Innocent Wife by Amy Lloyd

On the pop culture podcast this week: our first book club episode! → Read More

A case of evil consonants: the World Book Club is uniting readers around the globe

It's heartening, on a dreary January day, to know that someone in Somaliland is also tuning in to the BBC World Service and turning Agatha Christie’s pages. → Read More

SRSLY #124: A Jane Austen Special — Emma

On the pop culture podcast this week: Caroline and Anna examine the major adaptations of Jane Austen's iconic novel, Emma. → Read More

Falstaff shows Verdi can be funny – Bryn Terfel has the audience in stitches

This production at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall became more of a one-man show than its composer perhaps intended. → Read More

The New Statesman’s 2017 books of the year

Friends and contributors tell us what they've enjoyed reading most over the past 12 months. → Read More