Category Archives: Journalism
Cantal press trip blogged – and a travel request
Just back from a week in the centre of France in a little known area called the Cantal. It may be “one of the most sparsely populated and geographically isolated French departments”, according to Wikipedia, but it does have one … Continue reading
Travmedia launches new social network for travel trade
Travmedia, a press release and journalist alert service which connects journalists and PRs, has just made a very smart move (I hope) by launching a Facebook-style social network, that will facilitate many more travel trade connections and work opportunities, and … Continue reading
Dataviz first attempts
Having wrestled with a significant number of roadblocks for what is a fairly straightforward dataset, I am happy to announce the birth of my first data visualisation comparing 2011 figures for the percentage of women in the boardroom across a … Continue reading
News from my blogs
Having different blogs for different subject areas means that I am a slave to them all. So if it’s quiet here on my central hub then it’s probably because I’m over on one of my other workday or spare-time blogs. … Continue reading
My first attempts at ‘journalism’ circa 1984
A few weeks ago Stirchley News discovered some old issues of Snooze aka Stirchley News zine from the mid 1980s in someone’s attic: “My mother recently discovered a pile of these local interest newspapers in her loft. Mum helped on … Continue reading
Anyone else out there do what I do?
The shift in publishing from print to digital has changed my production journalist job beyond all recognition – a transition I blogged about in last year in RIP Sub-editing. Now, instead of ‘journalist’, I answer blogger or web editor or … Continue reading
Why dataviz eats my brain
I keep getting drawn into dealing with infographics (didn’t they just used to be called graphics?). Which is fine. They are content and, after all, I am a content producer. The problem is that I appear to be seriously rubbish … Continue reading
Spaghetti Junction Flickrmeet
Why Birmingham Flickrmeets rawk and possibly create an opportunity local adventure tourism – check out the full story over on my travel blog. Meanwhile, here is a slideshow of yesterday’s concrete loveliness – or view the full set on Spaghetti … Continue reading
RIP Sub-editing 1987-2008
My blog mentor used to say keep your posts short. One point per post. Three paragraphs should do it. Well, here it is. The perfect post. Albeit leading to 3,000 >more< words of juicy goodness about a trade that is … Continue reading
12 things I learnt at SXSW 2010
I learnt… * …that Austin looks awesome from the 33rd floor Fringe events outside of the main SXSW programme are occurring all the time. I just found out today for example that there were THREE Twitter parties (not just the … Continue reading
