Tag Archives: Journalism
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
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
The joy of Creative Commons
…is better parties, social occasions, family life and harmony. Possibly. Yes, the Creative Commons licensing of your content has the direct side-effect of shareability, clarity and time efficiency of not chasing copyright permissions. But it also has the real-world, real-time … 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
My first video interview ends in a Midlands Today fantasy
This is quite exciting, to me anyway, because I’ve done print interviews and I’ve taken video – now I’ve finally put both together. There are lots of mistakes but on the whole I’m not unhappy with it, especially as it … Continue reading
Transparent journalism – the Web 2.0 way to compile a Top 10 list
Been having fun over on my travel blog Tourist Vs Traveller with exposing the messy inner blood and guts of how I put together two Valentine’s Day features on the ‘top 10′ romantic places in the UK and around the … Continue reading
