Chris Elliott is a former Guardian readers' editor
February 2022
Other lives
Stephen Trudgill obituary
Other lives: Cambridge academic who studied the effect of nature on human wellbeing
November 2017
Open door
'Willingness to admit error is key in the fake news era'
Chris Elliott
Open door: To mark the 20th anniversary of the Guardian readers’ editor role, the incumbent asked his three predecessors to recall their time in the post
April 2017
Inside the Guardian
'I wanted to take you inside the paper' – a new history of the Guardian
Former readers’ editor Ian Mayes’s book, covering a tumultuous three decades in the newspaper’s history, is nearing completion
March 2017
Inside the Guardian
Hella Pick: 'I'm not a war reporter, but I'd fight any political battles'
She was one of the Guardian’s first female foreign correspondents in the 1960s, knew most key figures of the era, and she’s still going strong
March 2016
Chris Elliott on being the Guardian readers' editor – video
Open door
A final fever as one door closes for a departing readers’ editor
Chris Elliott
Open door
Allegations of bias, factual errors and queries. All in a day’s work
Chris Elliott
Open door
Minority reporting and an age-old question of the right language
Chris Elliott
February 2016
Open door
Challenging stereotypes about Tourette syndrome
Chris Elliott
Open door
Accusations of bias in coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Chris Elliott
Open door
Reporting on historical sexual abuse allegations requires great care
Chris Elliott
Open door
We wouldn’t write ‘Afro-Caribbean’ today, but is ‘people of colour’ OK now?
Chris Elliott
Inside the Guardian
Inside the Guardian: how the live blog has changed the face of news reporting
Open door
The importance of clear labelling when it comes to branded content
Chris Elliott
January 2016
Open door
We must choose our words carefully when covering complex legal cases
Chris Elliott
Open door
Coverage of Isis videos should be about news, not propaganda
Chris Elliott
December 2015
Open door
Yes, we get words wrong, but perhaps not as often as you may think
Chris Elliott
Open door: Language can be difficult to keep on top of when we have readers spread across the continents
November 2015
Open door
Can you picture poverty without humiliating the poor?
Chris Elliott
Open door: ‘Those kids have to go to school with all of their classmates knowing their social class’
Open door
What we got right and wrong in coverage of the Paris attacks
Chris Elliott
Open door: Readers’ response to our round-the-clock live blogs reporting on the bombings and shootings in France – and their aftermath – was extraordinary
Open door
How Unilever was left off George Monbiot’s list of palm oil ‘laggards’
Chris Elliott
Open door: None of those involved in the decision to remove Unilever’s name from the column were aware that the Guardian had any commercial relationship with the company
