Sometimes as a jobbing radio journalist you don’t always fully appreciate the full significance of the reports you make at the time. This one for Radio 4’s You & Yours – about literacy lessons being taught in a Staffordshire pub – was one such report. Looking back,...
I loved being an investigative journalist and this report for BBC Radio 5’s Sport on Five programme typifies some of the skills I believe matters most in this kind of reportage – how to throw light not heat on a specific subject. It features football’s at...
Sometimes as a radio journalist you are handed a project that is a true labour of love to make. As a kid I grew up waiting for the latest issue of the Dandy and Beano to thud onto our doormat. I’d howl with delight at the...
So at a pivotal point in my life, I have decided to share 50 songs that are special to me. They’re a random section - not necessarily the best, the most credible, musically complicated or placed in any order, either as favourites or chronologically. They are...
After ten years and some 140 meetings, the time is right to bring the Business Media Club to a natural conclusion....
With my reputation is the theme of October's Business Media Club meeting, when we will provide a step-by-step guide to cope with an unfolding media crisis....
Listening is a skill we need to consistently fine tune and practise. Learning to Listen is the theme of September's CGM Business Media Club meeting....
Giving is good for the soul, and in a materialistic world where poor mental health is becoming a major crisis, we need all the feelgood help we can get – or give....
Storytelling is in our genes. It's how we understand the world. We exchange information to educate or entertain in story form because it literally makes sense....
Culture – Ways to build caring sharing communities is the theme of our online CGM Business Media Club meeting on Friday, May 26 (10am-midday)....