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A compelling piece of radio reportage this morning, as I tuned in as usual to Radio 5 Live: the sound of British troops on manouevres and under heavy fire in Helmand province, Afghanistan.The adrenaline-fuelled tension of the situation positively...
Topics: Afghanistan, Alastair Leithead, gangs, Harold Lloyd, MEDIA NEWS, Moss Side, Newcastle, Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Radio 5 Live, Taliban, waistcoat
Topics: Afghanistan, Alastair Leithead, gangs, Harold Lloyd, MEDIA NEWS, Moss Side, Newcastle, Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Radio 5 Live, Taliban, waistcoat

I don’t follow the work of Giles Coren. At all. The only thing I know about him is that he’s the smarmy looking, curly-haired bloke who’s a bit posh, a bit of a foodie and occasionaly shows up on my telly with a woman who used to be one.
Topics: MEDIA NEWS
Topics: MEDIA NEWS

Gobsmacking news today on both Allmediascotland and the UK Press Gazette about the appointment of my old mate, Murray Morse, as the new editor in chief at the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport.Since he walked out of his last post at the Cambridge evening...
Topics: Good Work Fella, GWF, James Brown, legendary headlines, Loaded, MEDIA NEWS, Murray Morse, Sunday Sport, UK Press Gazette
Topics: Good Work Fella, GWF, James Brown, legendary headlines, Loaded, MEDIA NEWS, Murray Morse, Sunday Sport, UK Press Gazette

For no reason other than it’s summer and we were all overdue some light relief, we decided to throw a bit of a staff party.Originally we planned to give all the workers at Deadline Press & Picture Agency and their colleagues at Holyrood PR..
Topics: ABBA, bummer, Deadline Press & Picture Agency, Falkirk, Holyrood PR, HOLYROOD PR NEWS, karaoke, karting, The World Bar, Thistle Street, xtreme
Topics: ABBA, bummer, Deadline Press & Picture Agency, Falkirk, Holyrood PR, HOLYROOD PR NEWS, karaoke, karting, The World Bar, Thistle Street, xtreme

Learning the high cost of failure to use spell check - 32 days ago
A nice simple media dilemma for a change: Ace hack-in-the-making Douglas Walker at Deadline Press & Picture Agency, felt a bit aggrieved after one of the agency’s stories ended up as the subject of an irreverent mickey-take on the Spike... Topics: daily record, Deadline, Douglas Walker, Edinburgh, Evening News, hamish coghill, Magnus Llewellin, malcolm speed, newspapers, press and picture agency, The Sun, Uncategorized


