KzAkabueze via Flickr Ten years ago this week. What were you doing when the World Trade Centre came under attack? Do you remember? The sun was shining that day in 2001. I was about four months pregnant with Boy Two and working as night editor at the Daily Star of Scotland. I was late for […]
I’m bewildered by the world – when will common sense prevail?
With signposts like this… Have you seen the news this week? Yes. What’s going on? The more I see, the more I do that “this is crazy, what’s the world coming to?” shrug thing. It started well enough with the unflappable Alex Crawford reporting on the rebels’ arrival in Tripoli. She provided the best coverage […]
Twitter – break the news, not hearts
Twitter is a fanatic source of quick information. This evening, for example, the Panther of News and I were jolted from our Sunday night bubblegum telly by a tweet about rebels streaming into Libya. With one eye I watched Alex Crawford of Sky give her compelling and courageous report from the streets of Tripoli and […]
In the interests of balance… PR v journalism
I don’t generally have much time for the type of blog post that says PR people are idiots because they don’t understand bloggers. Bloggers, PRs, journalists and editors all do their thing for different reasons and different levels and forms of reward. Sometimes they have to deal with each other and a degree of understanding […]