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Alan Geere online: October 2014
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Also at http:/ alan-geere.com/. Monday, October 13, 2014. 10 things I have just learned about journalism. I HAVE now finished a seven-week romp around Ireland, both north and south, helping nearly 70 journalists come to terms with the latest way of working. I reminded them that I started work in the days of hot metal - "Hot, smelly, dangerous - and that was just the newsroom! Here are my Top 10 takeaways:. Journalism is still fun:. Journalists are still fun:. I met some wonderful people performing courag...
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Alan Geere online: August 2013
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Also at http:/ alan-geere.com/. Friday, August 16, 2013. Poor pay, work experience and those biscuits. Lovely to see the cut and thrust of comment and debate following the publication online of my chapter in the latest journalism book, What Do We Mean By Local? The Rise, Fall – and Possible Rise Again – of Local Journalism. As a newspaper editor it’s always tempting to have the last word with those pesky readers, so why change the habits of a lifetime? Here goes with some responses to correspondents on.
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Alan Geere online: April 2014
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Also at http:/ alan-geere.com/. Monday, April 07, 2014. Forest friends star in Animal Magic. WE'RE used to the donkeys and ponies auditioning as traffic police here in Brockenhurst but this performance from a herd of wild cattle brought our New Forest village to a standstill. Surefooted, confident and completely unfazed by both traffic and humans they trotted (do cows trot? At some lick through the village and disappeared off towards Sway. Monday, April 07, 2014. Links to this post.
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Alan Geere online: July 2014
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Also at http:/ alan-geere.com/. Thursday, July 03, 2014. In the days of click-throughs and downloads, why we still love shorthand. INVIGILATING at the NCTJ shorthand exams today I am instantly transported back to a windowless, airless room at Harlow Technical College in that long, hot summer of 1975. Now we are sitting the shorthand exam, the culmination of two hours a day sweating through hangovers and lack of sleep to reach the holy grail of 100 words per minute. And the days of checking your rusty sho...
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Alan Geere online: September 2013
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Also at http:/ alan-geere.com/. Sunday, September 29, 2013. Why I still love The Dell.and Twitter. BACK IN the late 80s my son Chris. And I were at the vanguard of a brave. Family season ticket’ venture at The Dell, home of Southampton FC, ‘The Saints’. Chris, then about seven years old, paid next to nothing (£10 for the season, if I remember) and I paid far less than I would have done anywhere else in the ground to stand (remember standing? Bizarrely the flats are in a large rectangle roughly the same d...
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Alan Geere online: October 2013
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Also at http:/ alan-geere.com/. Tuesday, October 22, 2013. Tony Garnett: Angry old man shows why we must all still care. I’VE SPENT most of my life striving to uncover the truth – or whatever passes for it at the time – and working to relay that to as many people as possible. So it was fascinating to spend the evening in the company of man who’s spent his career making up stories – and jolly good ones too. 8220;We agreed to lock it away in the vault of the British Film Institute if they didn’t sue ...
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Alan Geere online: In the days of click-throughs and downloads, why we still love shorthand
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Also at http:/ alan-geere.com/. Thursday, July 03, 2014. In the days of click-throughs and downloads, why we still love shorthand. INVIGILATING at the NCTJ shorthand exams today I am instantly transported back to a windowless, airless room at Harlow Technical College in that long, hot summer of 1975. Now we are sitting the shorthand exam, the culmination of two hours a day sweating through hangovers and lack of sleep to reach the holy grail of 100 words per minute. And the days of checking your rusty sho...
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Alan Geere online: November 2013
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Also at http:/ alan-geere.com/. Tuesday, November 12, 2013. Hidden treasure reveals the truth and horror of 1991 massacre in East Timor. IT IS a story of murder, betrayal, love and intrigue – but sadly not one you are about to see anytime soon on a TV or cinema screen near you. I sat transfixed – and I’m not ashamed to say a little moist-eyed – through a screening of ‘ Bloodshot: The Dreams And Nightmares Of East Timor. 8217; here at Southampton Solent University. Also on hand was producer/director.
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Alan Geere online: Hello Acacia mall...but don't mention the slums
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Also at http:/ alan-geere.com/. Friday, June 20, 2014. Hello Acacia mall.but don't mention the slums. Aren't we all thrilled that Kampala's newest shopping centre, Acacia mall, was. By that nice Mr Museveni, no less? Well, probably not if you are one of the 20,000 people who live in the Katanga slum. Just a mile but a lifetime away in the centre of Uganda's capital city. I did go in while my wife was helping out the with the wonderful. Hope and Love for Vulnerable Children". There is little appetite from...