“You are part of our gang” – running news social media accounts during an election campaign

“You are part of our gang” – running news social media accounts during an election campaign

Having run social media accounts for both the Mirror and the Guardian during election and referendum campaigns, here’s a long rambling brain dump about the whole thing… I suppose one of the things that has driven my career over nearly…

I wrote a thing about some things what I had made

A week is a long time in politics. This time last week I was hammering out story after story for Mirror Online, UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d, covering the General Election in a shift that lasted from 6pm on the Thursday night…

#GamerGate poll: Clarifying the change from “Uncovering corruption” to “Fighting corruption”

#GamerGate poll: Clarifying the change from “Uncovering corruption” to “Fighting corruption”

I wrote about #GamerGate again today for the Mirror, with predictable consequences. There was something I wanted to clear up about the poll though. Not long after it opened, it was pointed out to me that you couldn’t tweet the…

How much of Wolfgang Blau’s “office desktop” traffic will survive for brands like the Mirror?

Wolfgang Blau, director of digital strategy at the Guardian, recently tweeted about the shift to mobile apparent in news consumption over the last couple of years. He posed a challenging question – are we de-prioritising desktop design too soon? His…

Come and work with me making brilliant stuff for the web

So my track record helping Trinity Mirror launch UsVsTh3m, Ampp3d and Row Zed is pretty OK, and you like making brilliant fun shareable content for the web, so why on earth wouldn’t we want to do that together? I’m looking…