PinnedYou are not my audience, but you could be: Content creation, Gen Z and Universities.At a relatively young age they knew they‘d left the curriculum behind them. It’s not that they were being schooled more, or that they were inordinately bright. It’s just that their curiosity took them into the next horizon in music, creativity and collaborations. The era of Gen Zs* out-digitalizing their…Journalism9 min read
5 days agoStop practicing this thing you call journalism and start making cinema journalism.Thirty years ago this statement was put to the test. It was way too early, but over the years, being profiled by Apple and presenting at their store, various publications, being invited to numerous conferences, created scores of blog posts, keynoting and awards, it’s no longer unfashionable. In a world…Journalism2 min read
6 days agoHow to write a successful email if you’re researching an issue.If you’re naturally curious, you won’t need this; there’s a reason for emailing people we do not know in which their interests are balanced with ours. Several years back, I provided a structural framework to students. I recently had an old student back to talk to my current ones. …Journalism5 min read
May 19How the Avengers of Journalism rewrote the face of journalism.Here, pick up this camera and go out and shoot. Shoot what? Anything, but no more than five minutes. Don’t spend too long. That’s all the instructions they were given. One by one they filed into the room unaware of the challenge. Some candidates were dismissed outrightly. Yes! Thank you. …Journalism6 min read
May 17The Story Hub: Create something rad. in a couple of weeksRemember that scene in Intestellar…”The World doesn’t need more engineers”. Well, we thought what if the world didn’t need any more journos, at least in their current form. What if you you could tell all sorts of stories? …Journalism3 min read
May 16Great! In-person journalism events return. How could they be different?The blueprints there, right there, I‘ll tell the audience. If you want to do innovation and diversity and how they bolster each other, a firm blue print is 1994. Back then 30 youngsters turned the British media upside down heralding the change we’re now living. Channel One TV was the…Journalism8 min read
May 15How fabulous! Catwalk cousins living their dreamWhat you see is nearly not as half as interesting when you learn some more. Two models on the Vogue runway for London Fashion Week. One’s Karima, the other’s Robert. They’re cousins — the sort that act like bros and sis when they meet up. Both, quite coincidentally and accidentally…Journalism4 min read
May 7What if journalism included physically building solutions to the future?Journalism’s professional claims in reportage and making sense of events, issues and representation were finally undone. From 2000 onwards new 21st Century models emerged. In the 21st century classic journalism’s grand claims were popularly debunked. It was like the Bible’s old testament versus the new. In the old testament complexity…Journalism6 min read
May 1Breaking the News: Insider News like you’ve rarely known, from a British Institution.This is me. I’m off to the British Library for an event that’s had many waiting in anticipation over the months as a team of curators, advisers and designers assemble an epic exhibition. If you know London, the British Library is that sprawling building in Kings Cross. …Journalism6 min read
Apr 21500 years of News; how it shapes lives and behaviours. Illuminating!Two and some years ago an email from the British Library arrived. Dr Luke McKernan (also co-editor) requested if I’d be interested in joining its advisory board, and later writing for the book: Breaking The News. I would write about Black Lives Matter and Language. I was thrilled, and admittedly…News3 min read