With recent revelations of BBC TV presenters big buck salaries, it would be natural to assume that all TV guests on news programmes and in documentaries are paid at least a token appearance fee. Especially since interviews can take the best part of half a day. If it’s a live studio interview for a news
When I’m not being a journalist or media training, I’m training for triathlons. Like many journalists, my passion and hobby have influenced what I write about. So health and fitness articles has fast become one of my focus areas. I regularly write for the Fitness Trends section at Metro (recent assignments include night swimming in
Outside Finsbury Mosque, close to the scene where a 51-year old man was brutally and indiscriminately mowed down by an alleged terrorist in a van last week, scores of journalists, photographers, cameramen, producers and presenters gathered. Many were approaching locals, commuters or worshipers at the mosque requesting a comment. There were far more TV reporters
As journalists and media training experts here at Nine Media, we are often asked to go on news programmes to comment on a topic we have written about. The first time I did this I couldn’t believe how little hand-holding there was considering it was national television. I was shovelled into make-up and before I
