I’ve been reading 2000AD again and Thistlebone and Brink are great!
Borag Thungg! When things like Woolworths go bust, people who haven’t been to Woolworths for years feel sad and say “Why can’t the old things I liked survive?”. So at the start of the pandemic I worried about things going…
The strange comfort of being future isotypes
I went to see OMD last night and they played Isotype, which is one of my favourites of their post-reformation output. I’ve written about it before, because it was part of a #TimsTwitterListeningParty just after Dan Martin and Seb Patrick…
How we got where we got today – revision
My former boss Tony Ageh shared this piece from 2014 on Twitter this morning, calling it “some of the best writing I have ever read on *any* subject, while at the same time addressing more or less *every* political undercurrent…
‘First rough draft of history’ – live blogging article for InPublishing
“I’ve always thought of the role of the live blogger as being a little like that of a radio DJ on a news-driven morning or drive-time show. You need to be lively and entertaining, you need to convey things quickly…
Fanmail
I’ve had quite a lot of fanmail in the last few days at work. I’ve been called a “simpleton”, an absolute shill for the Leftist mob, a moronic wanker, a fucking imbecile and someone signed off simply “you are an…
Q oh none
There is a really good opinion piece on the New York Times website by Charlie Warzel about QAnon worth a read. As someone who has spent years writing about the internet and social media and essentially most people treating the…
Doctor Who Shada – some other bits and bobs from the press screening
I was lucky enough to be at the press screening for Shada yesterday. There was a Q&A afterwards where a lot of the press quotes you may have seen came from, including in the piece in the Guardian. I felt…
“Alright, grandad” – Private Eye cartoon has a pop at modern social media journalism
I saw this on Twitter from Private Eye and it irked me so I copied it out and wrote about it. 1) There was never a golden age where everybody rocked straight out of journalism school and immediately got put…
“Graphic content, graphic novels” – Marc Ellison discusses his work at #ijf17
I’ve been at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, and one of the highlights for me was a session called “Graphic content. Graphic novels“, where journalist Marc Ellison talked through the projects where he has rendered stories in the form…
“How can you build debunking beats into your newsroom?” – notes from a panel session at #ijf17
I’ve been at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, and here are my notes on a talk all about debunking false information, which featured Alison Gow of Trinity Mirror, and Mark Frankel of the BBC Mark Frankel, Social Media Editor,…