Chris Tinkler, who is one of the Chief of Staffs at Australia’s biggest selling daily newspaper the Herald Sun made his splash into journalism back in his homeland of England while working post graduate as a researcher for a politics tutor. “We were working on a book about attitudes and activities in conservative party members(…)

My last day began as any other normal day except the Gods decided that it would be tops to turn on the rain for me to walk to work in. Luckily, I’d purchased a extremely good quality umbrella and raced back to the room so I wouldn’t look like a sewer rat when I arrived.(…)

  I woke up to a extremely icy morning which seemed to last almost the entire day. Arriving at work so I can attend the news conference is tough work. I am most definitely not a morning person. I have developed a relationship with the lovely man who pours me a strong coffee each morning(…)

  What a crazy 24 hours I’ve had! Where do I begin?! So, I finished my blogging of yesterday’s activities at mX HQ and headed out for a lovely meal at ‘Spaghetti Tree’ an Italian place that I’ve had a few meals at in the past and my uncle played guitar at when he was(…)

Day two brought not only an added relief that day one was done but the realisation that today would be my first news conference and I was running with less than my usual 9 hours of sleep so I needed a coffee. Strong and large. I arrived and within about 10 minutes the conference was(…)

Today was my first day at Melbourne free publication – mX. It is based on the 10th floor of the HWT building I’d been working in the last week and was easy to locate. I made it through the similar glass doors on Monday morning and was greeted by a very friendly two gentlemen who(…)

Friday was  a morning of mixed emotions.  It was the end of the week and I would see my buddy from Sydney in a few hours but it was also the last day of my internship at the wonderful Herald Sun. I arrived armed with a coffee and an urge to power through the rest(…)

  Sorry for the lack of blogging. The food has taken over and I haven’t seemed to catch a break to blog! Thursday was a good day. I did some vox pops alone which was both terrifying as approaching complete strangers seemed odd, but funnily enough most people don’t have much of a problem speaking(…)

  My skin was drinking the cold breeze, many commuters passed me on their way to work and I needed a coffee. Now. I decided to have coffee in famous Degraves St where the narrow array of tables and chairs is frequented by the trendy, hipster kids who wear Ray Bans in winter and op(…)

(Pic taken this morning while I was enjoying a ‘chino and a muffin)   I had an earlier start today at the Herald Sun so after snoozing for an extra ten minutes or so, I got ready and headed down to the office. As I had a bit of time up my sleeve and lacking(…)

  It was a beautiful morning in Melbourne and the sun was barely out. My hotel, which is only a short 5 minute walk to the Herald Sun offices was a lovely stroll and I spent it observing and taking it all in. However, my hyped breakfast at the Pancake Parlour didn’t turn out to(…)

I was awake before the 5:30am alarm went off and abnormally leaped out of bed to get ready for my super early flight to Melbourne. I have always had an insane paranoia of missing flights. Luckily its never happened to me but I must always be there ridiculously early only to curse my eager nature(…)