James Silver is a journalist and screenwriter. As a reporter, he specialises in tech, media and business, with an additional interest in politics, society and crime. Formerly at BBC News, he has written for, among others, The Guardian, The Observer and WIRED.
The phone call that would, just hours later, inflict a highly damaging blow to Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions came through to Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold mid-morning on Friday 7 October.
In a production office a few metres from the designer boutiques and tourists on the Rue Royale in Paris, Pascal Breton, a veteran French TV-drama producer, shifts restlessly in his chair as he describes his
Marseille, an eight-episode Netflix Original series about power and corruption is due in late 2015.
Interview with Dmitry Grishin,
By James Silver
There’s something of the Victorian freak show about the World Maker Faire — a three-day annual makers’ jamboree held at the New York Hall of Science in Queens
INTERVIEW The man in charge of the John Lewis Partnership tells James Silver how his company is bucking the economic trend to be Britain’s retail success story
When the John Lewis Partnership announced its most
Digital Or Die: An Interview With WPP’s Mark Read
Submitted by James Silver on March 1, 2013
Global digital advertising spend broke through the $100 billion barrier last year, according to eMarketer, meaning that desktop
Tech City: two years in, how is east London’s technology hub faring?
David Cameron launched his vision for a cluster of high-growth startups in the capital two years ago.
By James Silver.
24th February 2012.
School number 1409 lies about ten kilometres north of Moscow city centre, in an exclusive enclave of gated communities.
AUTOPIA
05 JULY 11
by JAMES SILVER
Genevieve Bell (above) is an anthropologist whose people-watching informs next-generation computer chips.
FLATTR
14 DECEMBER 2010
by JAMES SILVER
The cofounder of the Pirate Bay wants to monetise appreciation
In April 2009 the Finnish-Norwegian Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, 31, was found guilty — with three