I graduated from PMA on Friday. I guess that makes me a fully qualified journalist now, or something. I still feel as though I have a lot to learn. It was quite strange to stumble home after celebrating on Friday night with no nagging feeling of needing to be at my desk studying, or practising [...]
Well since July 5th I have written somewhere in the vicinity of 50 news stories, five features, subbed innumerable articles as well as spending about an hour and a half each day working on my shorthand (I’m not getting better very quickly). Of those 55 stories, I have had to resubmit many of them several [...]
This is another piece that I wrote on the course…
A river runs through Martin Salter’s life. It’s the Kennet. A keen angler, he bought his first house on its banks so that he could fish from his garden. The Kennet also brought him into politics “Reading council banned fishing and I thought that was wrong, [...]
So, end of day two and I’m already completely exhausted. What we’re doing isn’t incomprehensible and with practice I will certainly improve. We’ve begun by learning how to write the news, and I think that if I’m able to absorb what Keith has taught us, I will be in with a fairly good chance of [...]