Category Archives: Journalism

Tina Brown

Love her or hate her, Tina Brown was editing Tatler by the time she was 25. I’m 25. I guess this is both an explanation and an excuse. I haven’t been updating because there is much to be done. Job applications, interviews - I had some funny ones last week, which I will tell you [...]

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Titanic and Journalism

Charlie Beckett posted a very interesting post on the future of journalism and I think he does a far better job of it than I. The quote from the Times (NY) owner Arthur Sulzberger was particularly good:
‘The Titanic’s real problem was not the iceberg or a useless captain. It’s real problem was the airplane. Eventually [...]

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Writing for greenbang

I’m writing for Dan over on Greenbang.com. It’s a about innovation in the green sector. Don’t worry, it won’t preach to you about turning out the lights, but we will entertain you with our razor sharp wit and geeky inventions. I will be blogging there regularly so check it out.

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Journalists and Social Networking: New Tools of trade?

Patrick Smith from the Press Gazette posted a story today about all of the “new” methods journalists were using on the net to gather stories. He and I have been following each other on Twitter for what seems like an age now, so clearly these “new” techniques are not new at all to him. I [...]

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