Ben Fenton is a former Fleet Street reporter who was occasionally given the key to the adjective cupboard - i.e. I was allowed to write longer and more entertaining pieces.In all, ...view moreBen Fenton is a former Fleet Street reporter who was occasionally given the key to the adjective cupboard - i.e. I was allowed to write longer and more entertaining pieces.In all, he has written about 8,000 stories in 30 years working for the Oxford Mail, The Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times. He covered wars, disasters, triumphs, riots, 9/11, the Olympic Games (3 times), the World Cup (twice) and then began to specialise in covering the media. He went from being the Washington Correspondent and the Senior Reporter on The Daily Telegraph to Chief Media Correspondent at the FT, covering stories like phone-hacking.view less