OK, so the first thing you’re probably wondering is why I’m here after an absence for so long.Would be future editors might not be impressed by a reporter who sets up a blog then rarely shows up. I can only say that it’s because there are times when you’re brain’s fried to a crisp and you feel you’ve written so much that there are no more words left in you that the thought of going home to yet more time facing a laptop can leave you paralysed in fear.
I’ll add that if you trawl back to previous postings at the time I set this thing up before my news training. Then, during and after it I was on here daily, several times a day on occasion, I couldn’t keep away.
Funnily enough, the reason for my return has probably been prompted because our editor has informed us he wants a weekly blog entry from each of us after out new website goes live. When? Soon.
With no word limit or censorship over subject matter he’s given us free rein to say what we want. The deal is that we just ensure we do it.
Everyone’s being a bit resistant so far. Not due to apathy or lethargy but I expect because we’re more rehearsed at writing about other people’s opinions rather than our own.
Still, needs must. I’ve no clue as to what my first entry should be about. I’m torn between doing a bit of a behind-the-scenes of what goes down in our newsroom or a read-between-the-lines stuff that doesn’t make it into the paper of some of my stories. Having spoken to other reporters and undergone work experience up and down the country in different newsrooms none of them is the same.
All of them have been unconventional and entertaining.
Equally, some of places and conversations that stories often take us are worthy of a write up in themselves.
So I guess watch this space.
