Going live on social media is a powerful way to connect with your audience, build engagement and share what you know. Live video has an immediacy excitement which can really pull people towards you. I must have broadcast hundreds of hours on live TV during my career. I was employed by the BBC with that… Read More Going live on social media
If you are dreaming of your first job in journalism, there are plenty of ways you can prepare. There is a lot of competition for every job, especially at entry level, and with plenty of media graduates entering the market place each year, it’s a challenge to offer something more and something unique. So here’s… Read More How to increase your chances of getting a job in journalism.
Phones. If you are under 30 the chances are you never actually CALL anyone on your phone. All your communication is done online, through apps, messaging, stories, snapchat. Even your friends don’t speak to you on the phone. So it’s no surprise that when I ask journalism students to contact people they’d like to… Read More How to ask for an interview on the phone.
I once met a seasoned television journalist, who told me he vomited every time he had to go live on screen. He was a wreck before each broadcast, and avoided going live whenever possible. That was years ago, just as the dawn of the BBC News24 channel was rising. Live reporting was not that… Read More How to be better at live reporting
Reporting trauma. There’s a deadline, you need an exclusive, the editor is hassling, you need them to talk, you need the soundbite, you feel pressure, a sense of urgency and then relief, you just desperately want them to say something you can use,and then a sense of relief when they finally do talk. You leave,… Read More A story, but also a human. Reporting trauma.
Standing in the early dawn, on a bridge looking down on a scene of destruction and death, I remember the silence. It was not like the movie scenes of noise and shouting and chaos and screaming. Instead there was a stillness and silence which was completely unexpected. The Selby rail crash killed 10,… Read More Why are we so scared of emotion in newsrooms?
Not using Video yet in your business or for your career? Did you know by 2020 82% of all internet traffic will be video. 82% It’s a stunning fact. Video will dominate the internet more and more every single day. But you are still not using it. Why? I know you are ambitious.… Read More The power of video
If you felt NO fear about speaking in public If you felt confident about being on camera If you were at ease with being visible and heard What would you say? What would you share? What would be the ONE message you wanted to tell others? What does confidence feel like for you? Is… Read More What can your voice do for others?
Two Cockerpoos brought from Bucharest to Huddersfield via Brussels. That’s how a meeting I had at a University began. With a story about two puppies being transported from Hungary to the UK by a couple. The lengths they had gone to in order to ensure the safe transport of their puppies was amazing.… Read More The power of storytelling
Beauty. That’s my message. My purpose. My WHY. Huh? That’s a bit simple isn’t it? Beauty? I know, so simple, but at the core of me, my life, what I believe in and what affects everything I do. But when I say this, I know people assume I mean aesthetics. Image. And that’s a… Read More What’s your WHY?
