Does yoga hurt? No, but bad journalism does

A friend who has been listening to me ramble on for over a year now about how marvellous yoga is recently sent me a link to an article featured in Time magazine last year.
Titled ‘When Yoga Hurts’ the article ‘hightlights’ a rise in yoga-related injuries in America. So should I give it up? Is it [...]

It’s always comforting to be appreciated…

I’ve moaned previously on this blog about all the things I don’t like about my job. Long hours, rubbish pay and an ever decreasing social life. So maybe it’s about time I mentioned an aspect of my job that I do appreciate.
Over the last six months or so a colleague and I have been masterminding [...]

The ludicrous newsroom

The one constant sound that you hear in any newsroom is the incessant ringing of a multitude of telephones.
The calls often fall into categories. There’s the ‘useful’ ones (people with interesting stories to tell), the ‘annoying’ ones (most likely complaint calls) and then there’s the ‘downright ludicrous’ ones.
Here’s two examples from the same [...]

Pausing for thought in the newsroom

It’s a pleasure to say that my job provides me with a great deal of variety in my day.
Job losses, court cases, major public events, strikes – anything can happen in a day and it generally does.
My job is to fill the paper with news and that’s the ultimate goal of every day. [...]

Just the job for me…

I often wonder that if, when I was 10-years-old, someone had taken me aside and told me just what long hours, poor pay and stress my career choice of journalism was to offer whether I would have stuck to my decision.
But no one did, and 10-year-old me grew up and went though school, college [...]