PinnedDigital News Report 2021: What freelance journalists need to knowEvery year, for the past 10 years, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has published its incisive, insightful and inimitable report on the state of media, journalism and news audiences around the world. …Journalism5 min readJournalism5 min read
Published in The Society of Freelance Journalists·Oct 21, 20205 career development tips for freelance journalistsConstantly hustling but not sure of your career’s direction? Struggling to set and stick to goals to make freelancing work for you? Or maybe imposter syndrome is rearing its ugly head? For any freelance journalist wrestling with the above, the Society of Freelance Journalists is here for you. We asked…Freelance Journalism5 min readFreelance Journalism5 min read
Published in The Society of Freelance Journalists·Jun 8, 2020Why we’ve started a new community for freelance journalistsWhat do you do when you see a crisis coming? Freelance journalists have, for a long time, gathered online or sought one another out to talk, vent and swap intelligence about work. In mid-March, as lockdown measures were introduced in Europe and beyond in response to the coronavirus pandemic, freelancers…Freelance Journalism4 min readFreelance Journalism4 min read
Nov 15, 2019What I learned in my third year as a freelancerI left my last staff job in mid-2016; September 2019 marked the end of my third year as a freelance journalist. …Freelancing5 min readFreelancing5 min read
Jul 19, 2018Now that’s what I call nostalgia (or not quite 100 reasons why I love Now!)Number 16 was my first. I borrowed it from my brother and asked for my own at Christmas. Rumours where I grew up said Mark Field, a boy years above me at school, had number 6. …Music6 min readMusic6 min read
Feb 16, 2018Five on Friday — Snap Map, fake tweetsFive things we’ve learned this week about media, journalism and everything between. People faked tweets from a journalist during the Florida school shooting Adding this to the list of behaviours we may see following a breaking news event, Miami Herald reporter Alex Harris saw here tweets to eyewitnesses doctored. The…Facebook2 min readFacebook2 min read
Sep 21, 2017What I’ve learned in my first year as a freelancerWhen I left my staff job in July last year, I didn’t have an exact plan for what would happen next, but I knew the steps. Take some time off to decompress (happily coinciding with getting married). …Freelance6 min readFreelance6 min read
Mar 3, 2017Five on Friday: youth, quizzes and fact checkingAnother week, another chance to catch up on a week in digital news and media. Pop quiz, hotshot! I remember a team at a Guardian hackday playing with something like this — great to see the idea in the wild. NRK are just testing the quiz on certain stories at the moment, but…Journalism2 min readJournalism2 min read
Feb 24, 2017Five on Friday: comment bots, student readers, WhatsApp storiesThe way we were The ever-excellent folk at NewsWhip are taking us back in time to look at how publishing to and distribution on social platforms has changed in the past few years — all backed up with their data. Five Ways Social Distribution Has Changed Since 2014 We take a look at five factors that have changed for publishers distributing their content on social media between 2014…www.newswhip.comJournalism2 min readJournalism2 min read
Feb 20, 2017Five on Friday (on a Monday): NYT’s future, Twitter’s abuse problem and Live leaksPardon the delay, but here’s five links you need to have in your life. Behind the Times Fascinating long read on the New York Times — from honest assessments of its business model to the fallout from the digital innovation report. The internal Times goal for total digital revenue is $800 million by…Media2 min readMedia2 min read
