petite anglaise

Written by me

• Comment is Free, Guardian Online “I was fired for blogging”, 19 July 2006.
• Comment is Free, Guardian Online Blogger beware, 2 April 2007.
• New Statesman column What is French for twunt?, 9 April 2007.

UK & Ireland

• Daily Telegraph “Wrote blog and got the sack“, 18 July 2006. And accompanying blog post from the same journalist, Colin Randall. Colin broke the story, and was my guardian angel throughout.
• Daily Mail“An intimate Internet diary and the sacking of the secretary who calls herself La Petite Anglaise”, 19 July 2006.
• The Times “Dear diary: today I lost my job because they don’t like my blog”, 19 July 2006.
• The Independant “Sacked: British woman who became Mme Bridget Jones”, 18 July 2006.
• Manchester Evening News “Sacked blogger sues her bosses”, 19 July 2006.
• Yorkshire Post “Blog sacking sparks test case” 19 July 2006.
• BBC.co.uk “Sacked blogger sues Paris firm”, 19 July 2006.
• Guardian comment leader “Blogging on the job”, 20 July 2006.
• Yorkshire Post “Bloggers rally to sacked secretary” 20 July 2006.
• Daily Express (no input from me whatsoever) entitled “The secretary, her uptight boss and the racy internet diary that got her sacked”, 21 July 2006. Racy? Moi? I think not. Much fabricated nonsense to be found in this one.
• Daily Telegraph “La Petite Anglaise is sweeping the world”, 22 July 2006. (I’ll get my broom).
• Sunday Times “The Blog that turned my life upside down”, 23 July 2006.
• The Guardian, Office Hours section “Virtually famous” 24 July 2006. My favourite in the crop of follow up articles after the Telegraph story (long live the Grauniad), the quotes are actually accurate.
• Yorkshire Post “Beware the pitfalls of the ubiquitous blog” 25 July 2006.
• Irish Independent“In blog we trust”, 30 August 2006.
• The Daily Telegraph English blogger wins wrongful dismissal case, 29 March 2007.
• The Daily Telegraph Petite Anglaise blogger wins sacking case”, 30 March 2007.
• The Times Secretary sacked for blog on office life wins £30,000, 30 March 2007.
• The Guardian Briton sacked for writing Paris blog wins tribunal case, 30 March 2007.
• Yorkshire Post Blogger more than a match for Paris, 30 March 2007.
• Sunday Times Let Sleeping Blogs Lie, 1 April 2007.

France

• Les Infos du Net “Un blog qui vaut un licenciement”, 19 July 2006.
• LCI.com “Licencié… pour avoir un blog”, 19 July 2006.
• LCI.com “Ils ont étudié mon blog très srupuleusement”, 20 July 2006.
• Le Monde ““Petite Anglaise” licenciée pour un blog qui n’était pas au goût de son employeur”, 23 July 2006.
• Two page article in weekly magazine The Nouvel Observateur, 2-9 November 2006, entitled “L’impertinente à haut débit”.
• Paris Match magazine Le Tribunal des Flagrants Blogs, 30 November 2006.
• Libération (version web) Licenciée pour blogage illicite, 20 Feburary 2007.
• Le Parisien Elle avait été viré à cause de son blog, 22 March 2007.
• LCI Petite Anglaise licenciée pour son blog – rehabilitée, 30 March 2007.
• Le Monde (dépêche AFP) Une “petite anglaise”, licencié pour son blog, gagne aux prud’hommes, 30 March 2007.
• L’Express La victoire de petite anglaise, 10 April 2007.
• L’Humanité Petite anglaise licenciée pour son blog, 11 April 2007.

World

• CNN “Bridget Jones blogger fire fury”, 19 July 2006.
• Yahoo News 18 July 2006.
• Globe and Mail, Canada “When it comes to workplace blogs, use caution”, 22 July 2006.

TV and Radio

• Interview with Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Radio Five Live, 18 July 2006.

• Television (I can’t bear to watch this, very painful) interview on More Four, 18 July 2006.
• Brief radio interview for RTL (in French), 20 July 2006.
• Interview on BBC Radio Leeds with Martin Kelner and Julie Langford, 21 July 2006, 5.50pm.
• Television interview LCI, broadcast Friday 21 July 2006 (see Multimedia headlines)
• Interview recorded for Newstalk106 Ireland, to be broadcast 22 July at 09.20 am
• Interview with Europe1 (French), broadcast 22 July.
• On the couch with Richard and Judy, Channel 4, 15 August 2006.
• TV Interview for Nuovo new technology programme, Television Suisse Romande, Thursday 7 September 2006.