Posts Tagged ‘Birmingham Post’
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate the public relations industry and I certainly don’t hate people who work in it. Some of my best friends…..(Jayne Howarth, Ros Dodd etc). Unlike some journalists I actually feel grateful to good PR firms. Let’s be honest, in recent years working on a newspaper would have been far harder without them.
What I hate is doing PR. That’s all.
I feel the need to say this because since I’ve been a self-employed writer, at least once a week I get a call from somone I’ve featured in the Birmingham Post in the past, who wants me to write about them again. They suppose that now I’m freelance I’m only to happy to tout my work round a range of publications and, they imagine, earn a multiple fee from them.
To which I can only say that I would sooner pickle my head. In fact I DID say exactly that to one hopeful – he still didn’t understand I didn’t want the job. (more…)
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
My last day at the Birmingham Post was Tuesday 22 December 2009. I slid out on a farewell blog like Santa on his sleigh. Here is my heart-felt post, with added pictures, which was published on the Birmingham Post website that day.
 The Birmingham Post goes weekly, November 2009
Bye bye Birmingham Post. I have been with you for more than 21 years. In those years you have been through eight editors, gone from being a broadsheet, to a tabloid, to a broadsheet and back to a tabloid again, only we don’t call you that. You were black and white then, you’re colour now. You were a six day a week publication when I joined. Now you are a multi-media operation of which the newspaper is only a part.
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
When Virginia Woolf famously said a room of one’s own was necessary for a woman to write, she could not have envisaged a room that looked like this:
But for me, having my own space on the web in which to doodle my thoughts and write my life feels every bit as important as the hut at the bottom of the garden, for which so many women yearn. (more…)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
*I wrote this post originally for the Birmingham Post website.
I have just volunteered to leave a newspaper I love and a job about which I am passionate.
Last week Trinity Mirror, the company that owns the Birmingham Post, announced 41 journalists in the Midlands are to lose their jobs by the end of the year. I am offering to leave as part of the cull.
Why? (more…)
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
*I wrote this post originally for the Birmingham Post website.
See this woman. I’ve just found out that she is my great great great great grandmother. (more…)
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