Had a great wedding (not mine), saw so many familiar and long lost faces, drank tasty wine and ate delicious salmon, have not looked at shorthand in three weeks and was not at all impressed when my alarm went off at 6 am this morning. Even my dog who normally loves mornings was not to(…)

Take a pencil to record in the rain. Torn pages and barely legible notes do not a story make. Take your own coffe mug. The only ones available are the chipped stained ones under the sink that have sat unwashed for years and years and years. They don’t use the inverted pyrimad at the Daily.(…)

Well another attempt to make an entry to the blog was foiled by the dreadful sunshine coast weather. As I submited my entry the electrics in my apartment failed so once again a long chatty piece about my week has disappeared into the ether. Have had a good week . Lots of news relating to(…)

I got to Whitehorse safe and sound and after a day of jetlag, picked up the two local papers to start sessing out issues. At first glance, layout is very different from Australia (very consistent page-wide layout), photo captions are different, headlines are centered. Then I started flipping through headlines. The first observed error in(…)

This is the third time I have written and tried to post about my day. Keep accidently deleting. Both attempts were chatty and newsy ,you get none of that now too tired. Had a good day. Wrote a story about an 82 year old author and took photos for a street poll. Going to put(…)

This is the third time I have written and tried to post about my day. Keep accidently deleting. Both attempts were chatty and newsy ,you get none of that now too tired. Had a good day. Wrote a story about an 82 year old author and took photos for a street poll. Going to put(…)

I had so much fun today… I wrote two stories and did a profile on a local. Everyone was so nice and made me feel really welcome especially the chief of staff, David. If i needed anything or wasn’t sure of something i could ask anything. I was nervous as all going in today but(…)

Here I am guys. It has only taken several months and some patient encouragement from the great man to get me here. We have moved and the exit clean was completed yesterday evening at 630.That clean is always draining. Who really wants to scrub a place they have already left but with an enormous bond(…)

…a license to ask questions. If you see something unusual or interesting, you can ask questions–sometimes for stories, some times for curiosity (which could always become a story down the line). The other day, the poor garbage collector made the mistake of getting out of his truck while I was jogging past. This resulted in(…)

I was fortunate enough to get two weeks in Sydney working with Skynews at their Macquarie Park facility. While Jschool is predominately focused on print media, the lessons gained saw me wrestle through in this television environment. The energy was evident when I first walked into the studio newsroom. The newsroom is the actual studio(…)

Last Thursday we went down to the Independent offices for a demonstration on sub-editing. Don walked us through what sub-editor does–winge, winge and winge, err…edit, correct and fix. He then showed us how his software worked, how he adjusted font, format, layout and size. Although, I think the best part of the morning was when(…)

1) He always has his camera handy and is ALWAYS snapping pictures…I have a rather large collection of pictures of John taking pictures; and 2) As I sit here looking up three or four different things John has told me to go look up (based of course on questions I foolishly asked in class), I(…)