(Go: >> BACK << -|- >> HOME <<)
Toby Harnden

Toby Harnden

in Washington DC

Toby Harnden has been The Daily Telegraph's US Editor since 2006. He lives in Washington DC with his wife Cheryl, daughter Tessa and dog Finn. Toby was previously Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph. He first joined The Daily Telegraph in 1994 and has been its Ireland Correspondent, Washington Bureau Chief and Middle East Correspondent. He is the author of Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (1999). An archive of his work is at www.tobyharnden.com. Story ideas and news tips are welcomed and Toby can be contacted at toby.harnden@telegraph.co.uk. His Facebook profile is here.

Giuliani: the perils of Facebook

Posted by Toby Harnden on 08 Aug 2007  at 07:28 
Tags: , , , ,

A girl of 17 signs up to Facebook and omits to make her profile inaccessible to graduates of the university she's about to attend. Next thing she knows, the profile is the subject of an article and emblazoned all over the internet.

Rudy Giuliani campaigning in Stanhope, Iowa
Rudy Giuliani campaigning in Stanhope, Iowa on Sunday

Her transgression? She is Rudy Giuliani's daughter Caroline and she'd joined the Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack group), along with 305,782 others. Which fed into the psychodrama storyline about her father's personal life and prompted the conclusion that she will not vote for him. Sometimes journalism is a crappy profession.

Read more...

Posted by Toby Harnden on 08 Aug 2007 at 07:28

Addicted to Facebook

Posted by Toby Harnden on 20 Jul 2007  at 09:32 
Tags: , , , , ,

If you haven't got into Facebook then I'm sure you will soon. With junk emails swamping our inboxes, Facebook offers a way out - a method of connecting and sharing information with only those you want to talk to and hear from. It is already starting to revolutionise politics and journalism.

Toby Harnden's facebook profile
Join the party on Facebook

I confess that I'm hooked. For bloggers the potential is enormous - bringing together a group of people who with a mutual interest. As an experiment, I'm starting a Facebook group called "Readers of Toby Harnden's blog" -  a way of letting you know when and what I've posted and a forum for discussion away from the public eye.

Read more...

Posted by Toby Harnden on 20 Jul 2007 at 09:32