Lecturing, training and writing: what Adam Tinworth was up to in late November and December
training
A collection of 22 posts
Teaching a teenager about social media
Apparently a student on work experience at The Telegraph enjoyed my training: One of the highlights during my week here, was getting the chance to attend a course with Adam Tinworth , a lecturer and journalist, called ‘Writing for the Web’…
2014: a year in travel
This is the first of a series of unashamedly self-indulgent posts, looking back at my working year through 2014. It was the year that my work as a self-employed digital publishing consultant really took off, and I’ve done so…
Scenes from a working week
Another week at the digital journalism coalface……
The Have-A-Go Self-Improver
This is an interesting insight into learning: If I was to rank the ways in which I actually learn it would look a little like this: Having a go myself Having it demonstrated The internet Books The first three are,…
Digital transition: publishers' staff delusion
The PPA‘s CEO Barry McIlheney thinks that much of the work on the digital transition has been done: He says he doesn’t hear publishers talking as much about the challenges of moving staff to digital as he used…
Journalists: get your liveblogging boots on the ground
Well, this is a good quote: “We’ve sort of evolved to this bizarre thing where people sit within newsrooms and cover breaking events from afar,” Tinworth said. “Actually I think one of the things, particularly the big news organisations…
Let me enter-train you: liveblogging and SEO
Had a fun day yesterday, running a bespoke training course for a property industry client with the talented, genial (and caustically funny) Steve Bustin of Vada Media. Watching Steve – a former stand-up comedian – at work reminded me how much entertaining…