Journalism
Harding has written for numerous newspapers including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Financial Times. He also co-hosted a political talk show on WEPM (Martinsburg, West Virginia).
In December 2006 he became co-owner and publisher of The Observer newspaper, West Virginia. In February 2010 he was awarded the West Virginia Journalist of the Year by the Justice Association of West Virginia.
In September 2010, the Shepherdstown Observer paper won a Freedom of Information Act case before the WV Supreme Court which resulted in referendum petitions being released to the paper. During Harding's time as publisher the circulation of the paper quadrupled from 6000 to 25000. In July 2010 he sued the WV Secretary of State over a gag order. In October of the same year, criminal charges against him were dropped for taking a photograph in a polling station. In 2010 and 2011 he worked with John Doyle, a delegate in the West Virginia House of Delegates, to get West Virginia's first ever law passed to protect reporters' privilege from revealing their sources. In March 2011 this law was passed by the West Virginia House and Senate. In March 2011 he sold his interest in the paper to editor David Lillard. In June 2012 Judge Bloom granted Harding victory in the case Harding v Natalie Tennant. in which he claimed that the WV Secretary of State was gagging him as a journalist.
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—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)