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February 16, 2013 By Ellen

It was another day at the coal face of the cutting edge of news today. I don’t suppose it’ll be very long before no one is doing this anywhere.One day, I’ll be able to tell all the young folk at the digital news dissemination hub, or whatever, that we used to put the words in […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, journalism, news, newspapers, Sunday

How to fail at fashion and social media all at once…

December 21, 2012 By Ellen

A bit of a turkey Earlier this week I had an interview for some work… something interesting that would slot nicely into the portfolio career. I was all organised – I’d read as much background as I could find, printed out CVs as requested, put on makeup and dressed as a grown up. A bit like a […]

Filed Under: cautionary tale, clothes, fail, fashion, fashion fail, journalism, Portfolio career, social media, twitter, work

Ritual abuse – they told me she was crazy.

November 10, 2012 By Ellen

A little under 20 years ago I was news editor of the Big Issue in Scotland. As a young journalist, it was an exciting job and I felt I might be doing some good. One day I took a phone call from a woman who insisted she had a story for me but that we had […]

Filed Under: abuse, Jim'll Fix It, Jimmy Savile, journalism, Journalist, Ray Wire, ritual abuse, The Big Issue, The Big Issue in Scotland

Where are all the role models for women in newspapers?

August 11, 2012 By Ellen

I’m rather pleased to be featured on All Media Scotland. I’ve written about citizen journalism and how ‘real’ journalists should work with them.  (We need a new phrase here – the opposite to citizen journalism. Suggestions: professional journalists, trained journalists or sell-out journalists?)Anyhow, apart from a little showy off that’s not the point of this […]

Filed Under: All Media Scotland, feminism, journalism, newspapers, reporters, role models., sexism, women

Newsroom dramas – what they really need

August 6, 2012 By Ellen

Have you seen The Newsroom? It’s an American drama where a news anchor decides he’s going to make the transformation from Ron Burgundy to, well, someone brimming with integrity and with a fixation on The Truth. But the truth is a notoriously flexible thing, so clearly he’s on a hiding to nothing. The fact that the anchor […]

Filed Under: journalism, journalists, news, newspapers, Ron Burgundy, television, The Newsroom, Will McAvoy

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