It's my turn to go out and face our adoring public this week.
Yes, on Friday March 27 between 9.30am and 11.30am, I will be at Johnstons Cafe, 626 Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, awaiting a tide of stories to flood forth. We've run three of these reporters' surgeries and the results have been a bit hit and miss - so let's make this one a hit, good blogfans! I would like at least three stories out of this.
Please.
The aim of the game seems to be to prepare us for when we make the move to mobile journalism and pound the streets, becoming hardened newshounds, sniffing out stories anywhere and everywhere. This might be a bit cosier than that, I suspect, but I suppose we've got to start somewhere. It should be interesting at any rate and it will give us a good indication of where our readers actually are and what they want from us.
It also means that the Campaign for Good (or Bizarre) News can take flight. Thus far, it's been a bit slow getting off the ground but this will be an opportunity to give us all the upbeat news you've got to give. This means I expect at least one of three stories you'll be bringing me to be GOOD NEWS. Or at least weird news.
To finish off what has been a much jollier blog this week, it occurred to me today that I have been at this job for close to a year now. We're coming to the end of March, so in just two months, it will be one whole year since I joined the good ol' WFG. That's right - I am no longer a newbie in the newsroom.
Looking back over it, there is a noticeable progression, even a shift, in the content - less of the wide-eyed, wet-behind-the-ears awe, more of the behaving like a professional journalist. Or at least I hope so anyway. Real strides have been made (if not forwards, sideways maybe?), I feel, and I hope to continue doing so.
For one thing, the paragraphs are shorter now.
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