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23 June 2012

OpEd: Musing About Museums

First, a warning for my regular readers that this post is nothing to do with journalism or radio. It's the first in what may become a series of personal 'OpEd' features when I'm wound up enough to voice an opinion; something I could never do in two decades of newsroom duty.

My theme for today then; what is it with museums? When I was a youngster they were places of wonder. Now, more often than not, I wonder what's going on.

17 June 2012

Testing Times Ahead

As I drag myself out of bed for the start of another month on air with my trainees, providing news bulletins for Bradford Community Broadcasting, I'm tempted to ask myself why I'm doing it.

This is the time of year when, marking load done, many of my academic colleagues look forward to summer; thinking profound thoughts whilst reading in a shady square in the Loire, getting the work/life balance right building dens with the kids in the woods, or doing quantitative research into media trends by listening to Radio 4 with a cappuccino.

For those of us training postgraduate journalists at Leeds Trinity it means twenty early morning starts for BCB Radio, followed by three weeks of producing live webcast telly for Leeds Today Online.

So why do we do it? Because broadcast journalism is still the best job in the world.