Dan Roberts



Profile:
Full name: Dan Roberts

Area of interest: Busines and Finance

Journals: The Guardian

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Website: Guardian.co / Dan Roberts | Telegraph.co / Dan Roberts

Blog: Dan Roberts's Business Blog

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Biography:
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Career: Yorkshire Evening Press graduate trainee; Daily Telegraph: City reporter and business correspondent, 1998/2000; joined the Financial Times in 2000: telecoms correspondent, industrial editor, US business editor, editor of the Lombard column; The Sunday Telegraph: City Editor, 2006/2007, Deputy editor, September 2007-2008; joined The Guardian, 2009 Current position: head of business for the Guardian and Observer
 * Sunday Telegraph names top City duo - The Guardian, 14th November 2007

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Awards/Honours: Press Gazette Regional Press Awards: Young Journalist of the Year, 1998; Foreign Press Association award for Financial Story of the Year as well as Business Journalist of the Year in the communications category, 2002

Speaking/Appearances: The Business Editors' Conference, 25th April 2007

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The Guardian:

 * no regular column

Column remit: Business and Finance, The City, other..

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Role: head of business

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 * see also Viewpoint column



Articles: 2010

 * the banks and Buncefield, light-touch regulation has become soft-touch regulation'' - Britain's business-friendly approach to corporate compliance used to be seen as an asset. Not any more - 18th July
 * than a euro crisis'' - With talk of the breakup of the single currency, global financial strife may be only just beginning - 15th May
 * a constitutional crisis could become a financial one'' - It's uncertainty, not a hung parliament, that investors fear. But prolonged post-election wrangling could provoke a gilts crisis - 23rd April (Cif at the polls)
 * from Kraft's Cadbury guile'' - A political consensus is growing that takeovers should be driven by more than short-term shareholder interest. But who will act? - 7th April
 * Labour and business: the end of the affair'' - The phoney pre-election battle is about to turn decisive. When business leaders speak out, it is because they sense a winner - 2nd April
 * Osborne: brilliant gambit or big gamble?'' - In an abrupt about-face, the shadow chancellor has ditched the fiscal rectitude rhetoric in a daring but risky appeal to voters - 30th March
 * for Lehman, or Enron Pt 2'' - Lucy Prebble has brilliantly dramatised Enron's accounting scams, but it seems Lehman Brothers perfected the dark art - 16th March
 * tech plans let the City off the hook'' - The Conservative technology manifesto fails to tackle what's really holding the industry back – the City's reluctance to invest - 12th March
 * debt that lies beneath'' - So far, low interest rates have shielded the heavily mortgaged homeowner from trouble. But a shaky recovery puts that in doubt - 11th March
 * Greece than Iceland'' - Eurozone member states are in a better position to resist market speculation than those standing alone - 11th February
 * taxes edge closer to the real target'' - Obama's rousing rhetoric of recovering 'every dime' of bailout cash aside, Anglo-American casino banking still needs reform - 16th January
 * ringing tills set off alarm bells?'' - There's a boom on the high street – but if it is to last, it can't just be built on another explosion in credit cards and lending - 7th January



Articles: 2009

 * Brown dares to tread, Goldman Sachs follows'' - Gordon Brown realised first that governments had to intervene to save the banks from themselves. Now he's doing it again - 12th December
 * Castles in the sand - The biggest mystery of the Dubai debt crisis is not why this desert dream has turned into a nightmare, but why it took so long - 28th November
 * high price for hiding the truth'' - Behind this complex restructuring of Lloyds and RBS, the British taxpayer will still pick up the tab for bankers' failure - 3rd November
 * wake-up call that big changes are still needed in our economy'' - there is still reason for cheer despite yesterday's gloomy economic news - 24th October
 * negative growth could be positive'' - This dire GDP figure means we can no longer afford 'business as usual' complacency about the UK's shrinking economy - 23rd October
 * lost love for business'' - Conference season 09: After a famously long romance with the City, has the relationship soured – and the party reverted to anti-capitalist type? - 1st September
 * Passing the buck in Pittsburgh'' - Everyone knows something needs to be done to prevent another crisis, but will the G20 leaders agree on a course of action? -
 * pay: a hall of shame'' - High pay used to be defended as a reward for success, but now executive salaries rise even when the stockmarket loses its value - 16th September
 * Rover was driven into the ground'' - The Phoenix Four's plundering of BMW's legacy to MG Rover confirms the worst prejudices about dodgy British business - 12th September
 * shove we needed'' - As the economy begins to stabilise, it would be churlish to deny the role of astute government - 10th September
 * the future for Orange?'' - With the T-Mobile merger jeopardising consumer interests, the case for the regulator to preserve real competition is compelling - 9th September
 * is last chance for revolution'' - If they really want to change things at the G20 summit, Brown and Obama must heed Lord Turner's attack on the banks - 28th August
 * need more than McJobs'' - Too many young people have been wasting their talents in insecure jobs – but right now it's the best many can even hope for - 12th August
 * probe was barking up wrong tree'' - It's no wonder the SFO won't be investigating the Rover collapse – it was always going to be hard to make a criminal charge stick - 12th August
 * nothing magical about Golden Sacks'' - Despite the humiliation of recently accepting taxpayer support, the bulging pay packets are back at Goldman Sachs - 15th July
 * chancellor's City surrender'' - Alistair Darling's white paper and its tepid propsals fail to address the cost of not cutting the City down to size - 9th July
 * up the City: a wishlist'' - Alistair Darling's white paper is unlikely to leave teeth marks on the City – but here are some things I think would make a difference - 8th July
 * City's public squabbles mark the end of an era'' - Open disputes between the FSA and the Bank of England come at a time when blunt speaking is just what the economy needs - 26th June
 * bankruptcy is a good thing'' - Chapter 11 gives General Motors a chance to reinvent itself as a company that might be able to weather the next recession - 2nd June
 * return of the bankers' bet'' - Stealthily, the financial wizards are starting to gamble again with our money. Have we missed the chance for radical reform? - 15th May
 * Forget Westminster - it's business that's big on excess - Dan Roberts: MPs' expense claims are laughably unambitious compared to some of the more extreme corporate expense accounts - 13th May
 * Deliver a decision on Royal Mail - Dan Roberts: Royal Mail will face challenges whether it is publicly or privately owned – but politicians must stop dithering about its fate - 5th May



The Sunday Telegraph:

 * no regular column

Column remit: Business and Finance, The City, other..

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Role: Deputy editor

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Email: dan.roberts@telegraph.co.uk

Website: Telegraph.co / Dan Roberts

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Day published: Sunday

Regularity: varies

Column format: Single or multiple topics

Average length: 1100/1200 words



Articles:

 * don't get how lucky they are'' - "No, you can't". These are unfashionable words at the moment - especially in the banking industry - 9th November 2008
 * is going to be punished, and recklessness rewarded'' - Even after 18 months of fretting, the speed with which Britain's economy is now hurtling into reverse comes as a shock - 26th October 2008
 * leveraged their reputation'' - Time to reassess what parts of our economy create lasting wealth and what is temporary froth - 28th September 2008
 * citizenship is a global issue'' - Right now, the only thing worse than the public finances is the state of private finance - 14th September 2008
 * ways to make Britain boom again'' - New thinking and tough measures are needed to drive our recovery. Here are five ideas to start with - 7th September 2008
 * is being crushed by a busy, bloated BBC'' - British television, once a source of national pride, has sunk to the level of a third-rate banana republic - 10th August 2008


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Business & City Editors:

 Dan Roberts (The Sunday Telegraph) • David Wighton (The Times) • John Willman (Financial Times) • Deborah Hargreaves (The Guardian) • Ruth Sunderland (The Observer) • Jeremy Warner (The Independent) • Margareta Pagano (The Independent on Sunday) • Michael Williams (Wall Street Journal Europe)'''