I’ve been invited to talk to a few hundred music and media students at Leicester College on Tuesday 8th November. They asked for a blurb about me and what I’ll be saying so I knocked this up…although it’s subject to change. What do you think? :/ Continue reading →

Not having a real holiday this Summer – booo! – I combined work with pleasure as much as I could. Here’s a whistle-stop tour of what I’ve been upto over the past few months: Continue reading →

I’m making a brief aside from my new blog series about how to forge a career in journalism to focus on the current media furore surrounding Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs, privacy laws and super-injunctions. Quite frankly, it’s all just too damn juicy to ignore!

Firstly, big props go out to Scottish newspaper The Sunday Herald (my blog headline is a tribute) for setting off this week’s quite spectacular chain of events. The football player’s super injunction did not apply outside England, but even so, it takes guts to be the first UK paper to make a stand and run a full front page story ‘revealing’ the player and mentioning his name inside its pages.

So let’s start at the beginning. A lot of people are understandably raising questions about  Continue reading →

One of the questions I’m often asked by younger peeps, and those who are closer to my age, is how I became a journalist. This is a really interesting subject especially with the severe economic crisis that is currently affecting the media and education industries. I took a ‘conventional’ route, but looking back and at the situation with jobs and the media sector right now, I would say that I don’t believe you necessarily need to spend thousands of pounds on getting professional accreditation to be in this field anymore.

This is a controversial stance to take, but before I explain why I think this is true, Continue reading →