The newsmakers of 2009

From Michael Jackson to the G20; duck islands to Twitter - the people, events and items that most transfixed Britain's media

From old Futures to modern Technology

Technology 1983-2009: The section began as a couple of pages in the main paper before branching out as its own section. Its editors remember how it evolved

My media

Almanac compiler Ben Schott on 30 Rock, US magazines and why no one has made a gadget spin-off of Top Gear

The decade that reality bit

The Noughties began with Big Brother – and ended with Saturday-night showdowns between ITV and the BBC. And when we weren't voting by text, we were using social networks, reading papers online, and wondering how we coped without Google