Cult of celebrity - Everyone wants their ‘15 minutes’

Old-school journalists may lament the day when newspaper reports were often stated to be ‘from our own correspondent’. 

Those were the days when journalists revelled in anonymity and would have been horrified for their name, let alone their face, to be recognised by the public.

Indeed, the former editor of The Times of London, William Haley, was of the opinion that “signed writing invites exhibitionism”.