Making the news

There was an interesting discussion on The Media Show (BBC Radio 4) about communicating university research this week. It was prompted by recent coverage of scientists from Newcastle University who created sperm from embryonic stem cells in a laboratory for the first time.
The panellists discussed the way in which this research was covered in the media, [...]

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Don’t hold the front page

For as long as I can remember (well, a good few months at least), I’ve been banging on about leaving my current job and applying to the Chase Post, one of Cannock’s three (count ‘em!) free weekly papers.
The Mercury and The Chronicle are better written, but it is the Chase Post that the residents (or [...]

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“Die, PR, Die…”

Thanks to Gary Andrews (nice little mention in The Journalist this month, by the way!) I came across this post on the excellent blog by Charles Arthur of The Guardian, venting his frustration at the hapless PR person who called him with what they presumably thought was a bright idea (or maybe they thought it was [...]

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The Dark Side

This article in yesterday’s Media Guardian – Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds You - had me agreeing and disagreeing in equal measures.
The author, the wonderfully named Damien McCrystal, managed to sum up some of my thoughts exactly. Writing of being “a hack” he said: “It was cool to tell people what you did for a living [...]

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