Carole Cadwalladr



Profile:
Full name: Carole Cadwalladr

Area of interest: Culture, media, lifestyle and celebrity, travel

Journals: The Observer

Email: [mailto:carole.cadwalladr@observer.co.uk carole.cadwalladr@observer.co.uk]

Personal website:

Website: Guardian.co / Carole Cadwalladr

Blog: the blog art & archetecture

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Biography:
About:

Education: Oxford University: English

Career: Took a year out from her degree, living in Prague and teaching English to sports writers. After graduation, worked as a holiday rep in Turkey, spending several seasons as tour guide to American teenagers travelling around Europe. Won a travel-writing competition in The Independent, started writing travel-guide books: Prague, Soviet Central Asia and Lebanon. Joined The Daily Telegraph as trainee, eventually becoming lead travel writer, worked for seven years at the paper before taking voluntary redundancy to work on her book, The Family Tree

Current position/role: Freelance journalist - contributes features, reviews, interviews
 * see: Books At Transworld.co - biography / interview


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Other roles: Author

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Viewpoints/Insight: Daily Mail - Book club: novel webchat with Carole Cadwalladr 9th March 2006 (interview)

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Controversy/Criticism:
 * Meet the real brothers grim: Or what happened when an unsuspecting Carole Cadwalladr paid a (brief) visit to the studio of Jake and Dinos Chapman - The Guardian, 8th October 2006

Awards/Honours: Nominated in the British Press Awards for 'Best Specialist Writer', 2002

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Books & Debate:

 * Travellers survival kit, Russia & the republics (1995) OCLC 33267785 (with Simon Calder, Anna Sutton
 * Lebanon (1999) OCLC 46393321 (with Anna Sutton)

Latest work: The Family Tree (2005) OCLC 55800699

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The Observer:

 * no column - various sections

Remit: Features, reviews and interviews in the area of culture, media, lifestyle and celebrity, travel

Sections: Life & Style, Family & Relationships, Fashion & Beauty, Observer magazine

Role: Freelance writer

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:carole.cadwalladr@observer.co.uk carole.cadwalladr@observer.co.uk]

Personal website:

Website: Guardian.co / Carole Cadwalladr

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Sunday

Regularity: Weekly

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Articles:

 * TV's the only way to move up in this world'' - What's left in the place of actual social mobility is the lottery of TV fame and fortune - 7th August 2011
 * TED Global 2011 - series of articles July 2011
 * you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli'' - For some people, a university education is little more an intellectual manicure - 3rd July 2011
 * How chavs have replaced working class people on Britain's TV'' - The Only Way is Essex is must-see television, but this mixture of reality show and scripted situations gives a one-sided view of Britain's chavland - 5th June 2011
 * 'There's an awful lot of brains out there' – all working to save the world'' - The TED ideas conference brings together some of the world's most dynamic people – such as prize-winner Jamie Oliver. He explains how they inspire action on society's biggest problems - 6th March 2011
 * Warne and Liz Hurley, a very modern love story'' - There's nothing romantic about the way these two talk about their sex life on Twitter - 13th February 2011
 * is not in the DNA – it's in the love'' - Boots' new paternity testing kit misses the point about being a father - 6th February 2011
 * 4's Big Fat platform for bigotry and hate'' - Television's portrayal of Gypsies leaves a sour taste - 30th January 2011
 * to spot an undercover cop'' - If the police must try covert action, could they please show more aptitude for the task? - 16th January 2011
 * conference: where ideas have sex'' - The TEDGlobal conference in Oxford was a celebration of ideas - offering ingenious solutions to the challenges we face in science, technology and the environment - 18th July 2010
 * dictators bearing gifts, Naomi'' - Everybody loves a freebie, but only a fool thinks they actually come without a price - 4th July 2010
 * Boyle: What happened to the dream?'' - In one incredible year, Susan Boyle has gone from obscurity to global superstardom. But, as her family and friends reveal, it has come at a cost, while serious questions are being asked about the very nature of shows like Britain's Got Talent - 30th May 2010
 * collusion to keep women out of power is sinister'' - It's preposterous how few females are in the cabinet, but no surprise given their treatment - 16th May 2010
 * have tusks, not rights'' - It's not animals we should worry about, it's academics and their ridiculous theses - 2nd May 2010
 * we choosing a prime minister – or a primate?'' - In life and in politics now, we are judging women on how they look and men on who they mate - 11th April 2010 (Cif at the polls)
 * despair, not grief, that can lead to suicide'' - The stories linking Alexander McQueen's death to his mother's are coming to the wrong conclusion - 14th February 2010
 * was an extra in Gavin & Stacey…'' - They were filming in her home village. In her local church. Carole Cadwalladr just had to be there - 22nd November 2009
 * Parr: Parrworld'' - From Muscovite millionaires to Blackpool tourists, photographer and ephemera collector Martin Parr offers a singular view of the human condition - 25th October 2009
 * to the bright new world of positive living'' - At one time, 'self-help' books were considered a little odd. Now they have moved into the mainstream and the new 'science of happiness' has become a cultural orthodoxy. But is this vogue for positive psychology really helping anyone - 4th October 2009
 * for the Windsors' wedding'' - A £520 salt and pepper grinder on Freddie Windsor and Sophie Winkleman's wedding list is a sure sign the recession is over - 13th September 2009
 * has no place on the sporting agenda'' - Sport is one area of modern life where women's appearance isn't supposed to matter - 23rd August 2009
 * malign show on a bankrupt TV channel'' - The Jeremy Kyle Show is a nasty, brutal, cynical show, not in terms of the guests it attracts, but in the television executives who commission it - 2nd August 2009
 * might Gordon Brown bump into scientists, poets, internet gurus, and even Cameron (Diaz, that is)? At TED, the festival of new ideas'' - Truly, anything is possible in the universe known as TED - 26th July 2009
 * humbug'' - Even France is beginning to realise that bare breasts do not liberate women but are just a tacky means of selling a product - 26th July 2009
 * them on the playing fields'' - We shouldn't be subsidising Britain's divisive private schools, we should be waging a class war against them - 17th July 2009
 * 'I'm so sad, and I'm really sad for my mum''' - Successive generations of fans loved his music - many found in London's playgrounds and streets last week were not even born when his biggest hits topped the charts - 28th June 2009
 * you're going to cut people up, add drama'' - Channel 4's The Operation: Surgery Live fails to be 'groundbreaking Tv - 31st May 2009
 * story for Norton on his Euro debut'' - Perhaps it was a little ambitious of UK's Eurovision hopeful to sing a song entitled 'It's my time' - 21st May 2009
 * is that Peter Mandelson? Want to buy an old motor?'' - Cars have as much to do with class as they do with character, ie nothing - 3rd May 2009
 * head broth? Lovely'' - The credit crunch has sparked a boom in thrift-lit - 26th April 2009
 * need for a 'snooper's charter''' - Until society learns to condemn perpetrators of petty middle-class offences, perhaps we deserve our surveillance culture - 20th April 2009
 * I remember this sickly smell of sleaze'' - Whether it's the Tories or Labour, it's the lack of self-awareness that kills governments in the end - 12th April 2009
 * Leslie, Queen of the frontline'' - She went to the Falklands in a fur coat, saw the Berlin Wall come down, and witnessed the release of Nelson Mandela. She was proposed to by James Mason, propositioned by David Niven and flashed at by Salvador Dalí - 5th April 2009
 * old place'' - Secret Britain: Even in the face of globalisation, our weird nation, with its strange hobbies, secret societies and odd museums, has wonderful pockets of non-conformity - 5th April 2009
 * very apt is periapt these days'' - It's a compelling idea to decommission words we no longer need - 29th March 2009
 * Masterchef got to do with food?'' - I've watched Olympic events less competitive than contestant Andy Oliver's timed preparation of rack of lamb on morel stew served with chicken mousse beneath a lamb suet pudding with sweetbreads and salsify, topped off with a grilled lamb's tongue - 1st March 2009
 * a perfect revenge on the arch snooper'' - Hardly anyone actually shoots themselves in the foot or literally gets egg on their face, so it was a real pleasure last week, in so many ways, to witness Jacqui Smith being hoist with her own petard - 22nd February 2009
 * retro irony is just plane sexism'' - Congratulations, Virgin Atlantic. Gosh, how your marketing men must be laughing into their expense account Martinis with the news last week that 29 people have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority that your current TV ad is "sexist" - 15th February 2009
 * the bubbly stops flowing ...'' - Frieze art fair was afroth, as ever, with celebrities and champagne. And of course no one was thinking about recession. Or were they? - 19th October 2008
 * made a pact with the devil to be here. But if you're a silly girl who gets into trouble, forget it''' - As two Britons face a six-year sentence for indecent behaviour on a beach Carole Cadwalladr explores the dark side of Dubai - 5th October 2008
 * reality bites, it leaves deep scars'' - behind the scenes at The Jeremy Kyle Show - 7th September 2008
 * Dave, you've got it all so wrong, boyo'' - What's occurring, Dave, is that you're unable to spot a bandwagon without leaping on board it - 24th August 2008
 * gold for hypocrisy goes to the BBC'' - s it just coincidence that of the 437 BBC staff members dispatched to Beijing, Gabby Logan was the only one available to anchor the coverage? - 17th August 2008
 * can learn a lot from Chantelle'' - 10th August 2008
 * So are we all tories now? - The Sloanes - and their political wing, the Tories - used to drive 4x4s and liked bloodsports. Now they drive Priuses and embrace cycling, camping, pop festivals, grow-your-own veg and seaside holidays. They've colonised traditional Liberal-Labour territory in an audacious ideological landgrab. How did that happen? - 3rd August 2008
 * Wanted: one new national treasure - John Motson is retiring from TV, so who has the curious qualities to fill the gap in our hearts? - 29th June 2008
 * Top gear, please, and step on it - Fifteen years ago, you couldn't even own a car in China. Now everyone is desperate to buy one. It's the stuff of salesman's dreams and an environmentalist's nightmare - 6th July 2008
 * No tea and sympathy for fans in Moscow - My heart goes out to the 50,000 poor saps who have decided to follow Manchester United and Chelsea to the Champions League final - 4th May 2008
 * Albion come to great confusion - The property market is nothing but a pyramid-selling scam, with the last in losing out. If house prices are falling, so much the better - 15th April 2008
 * Save me from the sordid wiles of the literati - The fact is that the publishing industry needs celebrities as much as it claims to despise them - 13th April 2008
 * It's spring. Hear the muggers start to sing - 6th April 2008
 * It's the clever way to power - part 1 - The Oxbridge elite continues to dominate Britain's political and cultural establishment. Do these ancient universities attract the country's brightest students? Almost half of undergraduates still come from private schools. So what is keeping state-educated children out? - 16th March 2008
 * It's the clever way to power - part 2 - 16th March 2008
 * Oxbridge blues - I went, as did lots of my colleagues. But it's not only journalism - British public life is dominated by their graduates. Can that be healthy? - Comment is free, The Guardian - 16th March 2008
 * Are you a lazy procrastinator? Congratulations, you are well on your way to happiness - 16th March 2008
 * Success stories are so rife that it's a relief to hear about someone who opts for being a loser - How quaint and yet somehow uplifting of Mark Boyle, the self-styled 'peace pilgrim', to simply give up - 9th March 2008
 * Seal-clubbing, murder, satanic worship ... or, gulp, a secret bottled water drinker? - Sorry? What's that noise? That sort of scraping sound as if a soapbox is being dragged across the floor. That's right, it's the sound of a bandwagon being hastily mounted - 2nd March 2008
 * Discos at Crufts, pet food tasters, sniffy homeless pups... has the world gone to the dogs? - 14th February 2008
 * Product misplacement - Bedtime with Kylie, coffee with Clooney ... are endorsements just another celebrity sellout? - 17th February 2008
 * Shopping with the oligarchs - Carole Cadwalladr joins the fur-wrapped stampede as Russia's super rich splash out on private jets, crystal-covered sports cars and diamond-studded phones at Moscow's annual Millionaire Fair - 17th February 2008
 * Celebrity is a birthright - Some are born great, some achieve greatness... and others just go by the name of Geldof - 10th February 2008
 * Want to live like a star? Choose one with a rubbish car and a cramped flat just like you ... - 27th January 2008
 * TV chefs may be the new evangelists. But all this foodie fundamentalism leaves a bad taste - 20th January 2008



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 * Wikipedia entry