How the gossip column hijacked the news

The death of Nigel Dempster robs the media of perhaps the greatest doyen of the gossip column. But in this increasingly celebrity-obsessed world has the "gossip-isation" of the news rendered the columns redundant?

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Nigel Dempster - Popular gossip columnist dies at 65

In 2005, he was named as one of the 40 most influential journalists of the previous four decades in a poll for media magazine Press Gazette.

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