When hacks get sacked for blogging

Published in September 25th, 2008
Posted by Louise in Blogging, Journalism
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Freelance journalist Nick Clayton got the boot last week for blogging. His firing has attracted a lot of media attention and he’s written up his experience on his own blog. Read and learn what a storm in a teacup it is – not for him but for The Scotsman. No doubt Nick will be keeping [...]

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Dirty old town

Published in September 22nd, 2008
Posted by Louise in Issues
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“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford”, Samuel Johnson famously wrote in 1777. I am neither a man nor tired of life, but I tired of London a long time ago. Leaving London was one of my better ideas. I’ve [...]

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MEN behaving radically

Published in September 18th, 2008
Posted by Louise in Journalism, Media, News
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It’s not often bloggers are offered the opportunity to have a look round a modern newsroom at a major regional paper, so when the Manchester Evening News announced it would host the latest meeting for Manchester’s blogging community it didn’t take long for the limited number of spaces available to be filled. The MEN recently [...]

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Blogging the bloggers

Published in September 16th, 2008
Posted by Louise in Media
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Tomorrow sees me heading off to the nearby metropolis of Manchester for the Manchester Bloggers meeting. I’m not strictly a Manchester blogger but I might soon be, if all goes according to plan. I’ve been invited to about 3 of these over the last few years – each time I cancelled at the last minute [...]

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The invisible older woman

Published in September 4th, 2008
Posted by Louise in Issues
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It’s not been a good week this week if you are female and over 30. First, the news broke that newsreader Selina Scott is to bring an age discrimination claim against Channel 5, as yet another older woman vanishes off our screens, as Joan Bakewell so eloquently wrote yesterday. Today, the latest report on the [...]

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