Of all the weeks in all the weeks of this year, why this week? Why was my vim & vigour so low? Beginning the week with a broken 4-hours of sleep didn’t help. I could have done a lot more if my vim & vigour was at even a reasonable level. A voice (a very(…)
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In the land of newsqueens
Three days ago I came to News Queensland. It’s a wide and bustling but friendly land. I will only have time to navigate part of this land. But that’s okay. I’m staying in the Courier-Mail area. Like going France for two weeks and never leaving Paris. But who wants to see a whole country express(…)
Goodbye to Investigative Journalism and the ‘h’ in Verandah LINDA BRADY INTERVIEW
Many moons ago, a young, adventurous journalism graduate from Rockhampton set off to see the world. First stop, an internship in Canberra’s corridors of power, was disappointing. “The whole political reporting gig left me cold. “It was such a pretentious and contrived piece of theatre and the reporters took themselves far too seriously.” So she(…)
and the audience is going home
Thanks to Zane for being so nice, so helpful and patient. Thanks to Yvonne for giving me some work and offering to give feedback – I wish I’d approached you sooner. Thanks to Linda for the interesting ‘chat’. Thanks to Geoff for being himself. Thanks to Paul for…I’m not sure what for…but thanks. Thanks to(…)
the lights are coming on
Monday I was still stumbling around. I had a great story idea. Funny! Weird! Entertaining! I loved it. A Chinese man had a beauty treatment. Got into a bath of eels (they are meant to eat off dead skin). A tiny one wriggled up into his penis and he had to go to hospital where(…)
scooterboy
It was hot on Friday. Friday was hot. I went with photographer Dave to the skate park in Bundamba to meet up with scooterboy, James. He and his dozen scootering, skate-boarding and bike-riding friends seemed like a nice bunch of kids. Just having fun. While Dave photographed James, I photographed Dave. Dave got a great(…)
slowcooking
This will be short. I’m tired, I have a headache, and I have to get a couple of viable ideas for tomorrow. I took a couple of photos of the front of the building but I can’t be bothered downloading then uploading. So the photo here is one that I saw recently in QT. It(…)
The Road
I plotted the very direct route to Ipswich, from Kenmore, by tagging(and numbering) the pages in my map book. And I took a trip to Ipswich a few days before my internship was due to start – to check my travel time. But I still managed to be two crucial minutes late on DAY 1.(…)
newshuntergatherer
Yesterday, I was at a café in Toowong having coffee, waiting for my partner. A well-dressed young man, sitting at a table with a folder in front of him, seemed vaguely familiar. But I was too busy hating Centrelink to pay much attention. When my partner showed up, we stood at the edge of the(…)
WYNNUM HERALD
MY WEEK AT WONDERFUL WYNNUM HERALD DAY 1. Good… Editor Jeni has given me some stories to work through – no rush, just work through them at my own pace. She is very busy as deadline looms – a bit stressed but still open to communication. Apologetic, even, that she hasn’t been more ‘there’ for(…)
MURDER TRIAL
I sat through a murder trial today – the end of it really. The first part was last week. It wasn’t dramatic like on Law & Order. The murder was discussed so matter-of-factly that in my head I’m going ‘this person might be locked up for a very long time. How can you be like(…)
TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
The expression ‘15 minutes of fame’ comes from Andy Warhol’s book A-Z and Back Again (1975). It obviously struck a chord. Why? With an artist’s vision, he captured and mirrored back to people something they instinctively felt to be true. He tapped into the zeitgeist. Everybody wants an audience. The ordinary, the retiring, the unremarkable.(…)