Comments for Martin Thomas

Comment on How to lose a customer by martinthomas

martinthomas — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:56:27 +0000

Nope *sigh*
Time to start working on chapter two I suppose.

Comment on How to lose a customer by Heidi Stone

Heidi Stone — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:52:49 +0000

And I gather it’s still not the end of the story…?

Comment on I’m just wild about Hari by Hari off the hook? « Martin Thomas

Hari off the hook? « Martin Thomas — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:36:44 +0000

[...] It seems I am in danger of turning into a bullshit merchant for sounding off about Johann Hari as I did last week. [...]

Comment on Identity crisis by Johnny Laird

Johnny Laird — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:28:50 +0000

How about “scribe”?

Comment on The impossible poetry of headline writing by martinthomas

martinthomas — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:12:37 +0000

Yes Avril, it astonishes me how much work we used to get through on local papers. I balk at doing more than a couple of articles a week now. I used to have to do eight before lunch on the Bath Chronicle (probably all riddled with errors mind…)

I’ve just been looking up a few wonderful headlines – found one about the closure of a library in Essex: ‘Book lack in Ongar’

Comment on The impossible poetry of headline writing by Avril

Avril — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:48:51 +0000

Those tabloids – you gotta love them. And the art of the witty picture caption seems to be dead. The Economist used to have a brilliant one. Will look up that book – like your analogy as the editor as the monster. I used to edit/write/produce/sub a weekly newspaper in Glasgow with a handful of freelance contributors. At least it was weekly but Tuesday nights and Wednesday afternoons became agony. Amazingly (to the best of my knowledge) there were no major gaffes. Even when I had to prewrite the story about the Pope in Glasgow (as it coincided with everyone (ie ME being on holiday). Thank the Lord, everything went to plan and I didn’t have to return from the Outer Hebrides for a rewrite

Comment on Open data cities – visionary way forward or just TMI? by How social media changes the way Sussex Police interacts – #Brighton Future of News « Brighton Future of News blog

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:43:02 +0000

[...] Martin Thomas – Open data cities – visionary way forward or just TMI? [...]

Comment on Open data cities – visionary way forward or just TMI? by Inaugural ODBH meeting on February 8 2011 | Open-data Brighton and Hove

Inaugural ODBH meeting on February 8 2011 | Open-data Brighton and Hove — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:44:55 +0000

[...] Cathy Watson blogged about a discussion at Brighton Future of News Group; so did Al Horner, Sarah Booker, and Martin Thomas; [...]

Comment on Local journalism – alive, well and working at the nationals by Blog list: Josh Halliday at Brighton Future of News Group #bfong « Brighton Future of News blog

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:00:10 +0000

[...] Local journalism – alive, well and working at the nationals by Martin Thomas [...]

Comment on Identity crisis by Lynfa

Lynfa — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:38:53 +0000

I say I’m a writer even though I haven’t published a book. Even then you have to define, right? Are you a novelist? A poet? You get the point. I’m a writer because that’s what I do for a living. I write. Not much else. This may, of course, change…