UK Television
BBC1 Have I got News For You (Episode 4, Series 45)
BBC2 Culture Show: Episode 27 (25 minutes in)

UK Radio
BBC Radio 4: Today programme (13/02/13)
BBC World Service (08/01/13)
BBC Radio Ulster Arts Extra (10/01/13, 9 minutes in)

US Radio
NPR: Critic Snags Award For Reviews Sizzling With Anger (13/01/13)

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BBC NEWS
Long wins Hatchet Job award for scathing Cusk review (13/02/13)

GUARDIAN
Hatchet Job of the Year shortlist lines up sharpest reviews (including interactive gallery)(08/01/13)
Jonathan Jones: Art criticism has become too fawning – time for a best hatchet job award?(09/01/13)
The week in books (11/01/13)
Hatchet Job of the Year goes to assault on Rachel Cusk (12/02/13)
Today’s media stories from the papers (13/02/13)

HUFFINGTON POST
Hatchet Job Prize Winner For 2012 Announced (AP) (12/02/13)

INDEPENDENT
Book critics with acid pens vie for Hatchet Job of the Year award (09/01/13)
John Walsh: Hatchet jobs: Agony for the author but bliss for us to read (13/02/13)
AC Grayling: Don’t tell lies. But don’t tell untimely truths either (17/02/13)

LITERARY REVIEW
Dominic Sandbrook: Bury the Hatchet (01/05/13)

LONDON EVENING STANDARD
Londoner’s Diary: A night for sharp scribes: Hatchet Job of the Year Awards (07/12/12)
Londoner’s Diary: Suck up and you’re a winner (24/01/13)
Londoner’s Diary: Who would be a media hound? (12/02/13)
Londoner’s Diary: Poor Rachel Cusk gets a mauling for her mewling (13/02/13)

LOS ANGELES TIMES
And the Golden Hatchet goes to … (08/01/13)

NEW STATESMAN
A historian’s hatchet job (12/02/13)
Interview with Leon Wieseltier (30/05/13)

NEW YORK TIMES
Clive James: Whither the Hatchet Job? (12/02/13)

PARIS REVIEW
The Hatchet Falls (09/01/13)

SALON
And the year’s most scathing book reviews are … (09/01/13)
Shrewd takedown of Rachel Cusk’s Aftermath wins Hatchet Job of the Year Award (13/02/13)

SCOTSMAN
Scotsman critic nominated for most scathing book review of the year (09/01/13)

SPECTATOR
Interview with James Wood (12/04/13)

TELEGRAPH
Hatchet jobs on Rushdie and Amis up for award (09/01/13)
Allan Massie: Everyone enjoys a really savage review (11/01/13)
Damian Thompson: Savaged by a gentleman critic (18/01/13)
Top 10 vicious literary hatchet jobs (12/02/13)

TIME
Ouch! Check Out the Harshest Book Review of the Year (13/02/13)

WASHINGTON POST
Ron Charles: Hatchet Job of the Year Award (12/02/13)

THE WEEK
Authors wince at pick of year’s most insulting book reviews (09/01/13)

2011-12

BBC NEWS
Scathing reviews jostle for Hatchet Prize (11/01/12)

GUARDIAN
Book critics to get their own prize for reviews (10/01/12)
John Sutherland: Which book reviewer will win the ‘hatchet job of the year’ award?(12/01/12)
Should we celebrate scathing book reviews? | The conversation (3/02/12)
Review of The Hours author’s latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award (07/02/12)
Sam Leith: The Week in Books (11/02/12)

HUFFINGTON POST
Harshest Ever Book Reviews: Writers the Critics Savaged (11/01/12)
Best Rip Job of the Year (05/02/12)
Adam Mars-Jones Wins Hatchet Job Of The Year Award For Writing Meanest Book Review(07/02/12)

INDEPENDENT
Wars of words: when critics throw the book at authors (11/11/12)
John Walsh: A hatchet job is not the real thing unless it’s done with wit and learning(12/01/12)
Boyd Tonkin: Put the hatchet in the other hand (13/01/12)
The Diary (06/01/12)

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Between The Covers (15/01/12)
Between The Covers (12/02/12)
The Diary (27/11/12)
DJ Taylor: All Hail Patten (05/02/12)
The Blaggers Guide to … The Hatchet Job of the Year (29/01/12)

LONDON EVENING STANDARD
Londoner’s Diary: Words never hurt, then (08/12/11)
Londoner’s Diary (10/01/12)
David Sexton: In praise of a literary tradition: the hatchet job (12/01/12)
Londoner’s Diary: West goes missing on his hatchet job (08/02/12)
Londoner’s Diary: Bigger Fish Sought for Hatchet Job Prize (20/08/12)
Londoner’s Diary: Booker Prize Books (11/09/12)

LOS ANGELES TIMES
Introducing the Hatchet Job of the Year Award (Jacket Copy Blog) (11/01/12)

NEW STATESMAN
Axes to Grind (Cultural Capital Blog) (07/01/12)
Burying the Hatchet (Cultural Capital Blog) (08/02/12)

NEW YORK TIMES
A New Honour for the Hatchet Job (Arts Beat Blog) (30/01/12)

NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
Téléphone rouge: Un prix à Londres… (30/01/12)

OBSERVER
Robert McCrum on books (15/01/12)
Adam Mars-Jones: The only bad review is one whose writing is soggy (10/02/12)
Victoria Coren: We lose free speech at our peril (12/02/12)

SPECTATOR
Hatchet Job of the Year (Spectator Book Blog) (07/01/12)

TELEGRAPH
‘The author could not write bum on a wall’ – high praise for a good hatchet job (12/01/12)
Book review hatchet jobs: a crusade against dullness? (10/01/12)
Allan Massie: ‘One by one, Lord Macaulay’s predictions are coming true’ (16/01/12)

THE TIMES
Erica Wagner: The Hatchet Job of the Year (14/01/12)

TLS
Mary Beard, A Don’s Life: Hatchet Job of the Year (13/01/12)
NB by JC (10/02/12)
Mary Beard, A Don’s Life: Hatchet Job Announced (08/02/12)
Peter Stothard, TLS Blog: O the Competition! (09/02/12)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Best Hatchet Jobs (Ideas Market Blog) (11/01/12)

WASHINGTON POST
Britain’s Hatchet Job Honours the Art of the Lacerating Book Review (08/01/11)

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