I was at the Tots 100 Blog Summit this weekend. It was, as ever, an excellent event with interesting and knowledgeable speakers, good company and excellent food. The final session was a panel with PR people talking about working with bloggers. It strikes me, having a foot in four of those camps I might be […]
Is the tits off page three campaign a bust?
Observations from a former tabloid journalist who has breasts. There’s a new campaign to get the tits off page three of The Sun, details of it have crossed my desk several times in the past couple of days. It’s nothing new, the arguments have trundled on since the first time The Sun showed a picture […]
Newsroom dramas – what they really need
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 […]
Bloggers v journalists, unnecessary enemies
At a conference of bloggers the weekend, amongst the general loveliness of it all, there seemed to be one or two notions about journalists and journalism that gave me cause to sigh deeply. As someone who has, over the years, worked for, among others, The Daily Star, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Expires, The Sunday […]
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 […]