A colleague in Oslo reports:

VG, the country’s largest tabloid, is situated across from the government buildings. It had a glass front, a mall inside, and then another glass front around the actual offices and a glass roof. The blast broke every single window pane, and the glass roof fell in.

Amazingly, there was no one at the time in the mall.

But the newspaper was paralysed, its offices inaccessible. What to do? The editor leased six suites at the nearby top-class Hotel Bristol. “We had our personal computers but lacked the big data that could process and send stories to the printing plant – so we bought one!”

They put out a complete paper yesterday.

That’s proper journalism, the real thing.

Here‘s the link.

You know who she is without my having to name her.

Deborah Borda, boss of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl, former boss of the New York Phil and the force behind the Dude.

Deborah has spent her entire working life managing orchestras: she knows their problems deeper than anyone alive. We discuss which American orchestras are likeliest to fail, how they can connect with a different audience, why Dudamel is such a phenomenon, what really happened at the Met when Joe Volpe retired, what to look for in a conductor …. and much about her own life and times.

Deborah Borda as you’ve never heard her before. Monday 25th, 9pm UK time on BBC Radio 3… and streamed online for a week.

The most depressing images that come to mind from the short, tragic life of Amy Winehouse are of her being hounded at every turn by hack photographers, who knew they could always place an angry Amy image with tabloid newspapers. This one’s from the Daily Mirror, and it is by no means the worst.

(c) mirror.co.uk, all rights reserved

And it was not just tabloids. This is the Daily Telegraph (c) all rights reserved:

The photographers knew that Amy had serious addiction problems. So did the journalists and editors who commissioned and bought their stake-out pictures. Their hounding of a fragile personality cannot have helped her known condition.

As official inquiries gather momentum, I would like Lord Justice Leveson to raise two pertinent questions:

1 Was Amy Winehouse the subject of phone hacking by any newspaper?

2 Was the press justified in door-stepping an artist whose mental state was known to be fragile?

It’s too late to save Amy, but others equally vulnerable have a right to be protected.