Nick Petrie - Latest Comments

Re: Churning leads to depression

@dahaigh — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:56:31 -0000

You may also find Bad Science by Ben Goldacre interesting.

Re: Churning leads to depression

Pope — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:15:00 -0000

Amen to that. However, churnalism only exists as a result of the business instincts which drive papers nowadays. They are used as money making ventures, which makes the content of the stories suffer. Like Davies says, the need for high output and low production costs make it necessary to use the PR stories rather than follow leads. It's a sad state of affairs which is likely to persist.

Re: Sticking at it

petren — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:39:14 -0000

Text being awaited with bated breath..

Re: Sticking at it

Pope — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:55:16 -0000

Yes Project London. This is rousing to say the least. I've had a few thoughts, conceptual more than content based, but we need a meet up to brainstorm. Expect a text.

Re: Sticking at it

petren — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:32:34 -0000

Dave, very impressed with your new site, it is a great bit of work. I am taking the internship approach at the moment - although I have lost count of the organisations I have applied to now (all within a short space of time). I have my first interview tomorrow, so fingers crossed. I don't have shorthand yet, but I have been looking at teaching myself, yet at times I have convinced myself it is a skill of 'old' journalism (not that it isn't eternally useful) but I have wondered about how best to utilise my time (with regards to what I am learning). Then there is getting the full portfolio online, developing project london etc..

Please keep me up to date with what you are up to.

Re: Sticking at it

Dave Molloy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:17:00 -0000

Good stuff, Nick! I am in much the same boat myself, finding that despite my hard work and experience gained, the free market is tougher than I expected, and I am not sure where to turn. But we'll all find our feet one way or another. A postgraduate course in journalism is certainly tempting, but at €8500, it might well be better value to move to London and work for free! Like you, I am spending my time between paying jobs on improving my skills. I've knocked CSS off the list (I recently redesigned davemolloy.net from scratch, my first project of that kind) and am looking to move on to re-learning my forgotten shorthand, followed by audio and video skills.

Best of luck with your own attempts, and make sure to keep us updated.

Re: One year of Redbrick

petren — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:11:45 -0000

Thanks Nick, it has been a tremendous year and there is more to come before it is over. There is also a great team in place for next year, so the innovation and experimentation should continue.

Re: One year of Redbrick

Nick Booth — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:05:05 -0000

Congrats - that's a hugely impressive effort.