Commercial Realities
I caught up with a writer friend today and we were talking about the difficult commercial realities of being a writer, particularly in with the current state of the publishing industry. This is an...
View ArticleThe Future of Journalism
I was watching a clip from Russell Brand’s latest show recently. In the clip, Brand was criticising the way he is portrayed in the media, saying they regularly use blatant untruths or information...
View ArticleThings I’ve Learned From Doing Panel Discussions and Literary Events
In my time as a writer I’ve done a few events. It’s part of the publishing, even writing, process – at some stage, most writers will have to do a talk or a reading or an event of some kind. And at...
View ArticleFacebook Instant Articles Have Arrived: The End of Publishing as We Know it?
After much speculation, Facebook’s Instant Articles are here. Instant Articles gives publishers the opportunity to post their content direct to Facebook, in a move that some are proclaiming as...
View ArticleNews Content Becoming More Divisive in Order to Fuel Clicks – is That a Good...
The very nature of news, as we know it, is changing. The way stories and issues are being reported in the modern age has been unquestionably altered by the new media landscape – everything you see,...
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