Posts Tagged ‘journalism’New business cardThursday, July 1st, 2010
At last, I can reveal I have a new business card…. It’s not wonky in real life – that’s down to the photographer’s skill and creativity. Since February I’ve been working for Maverick Television, the company that brought us Embarassing Bodies and How to Look Good Naked, to make a ground-breaking website for the NHS in the West Midlands. We’ve still got a little way to go to be where we want to be but the password of NHS local was lifted yesterday. I hate PRWednesday, March 3rd, 2010Don’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…) May my work…Friday, February 12th, 2010May my work be the way May it be my worship May it be the growing of my heart and the connecting of my soul May it be my reaching out and drawing in May it lead me home Written while on retreat at the ZeroCarbonHouse, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
Farewell Birmingham PostThursday, January 7th, 2010My 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. I’m quitting the Birmingham PostWednesday, 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…) |
