The Telegraph's head of social, Beth Ashton, on news in a multi-platform age
Beth Ashton, The Telegraph's head of social media, kindly invited me over to their offices to tell me about how they do... social media. Traditionally, The...
BBC Radio 4 Extra's Amanda Litherland on her Podcast Radio Hour
Hi all, Hope you’re enjoying the gorgeous bank holiday sunshine - it’s already 28 degrees C out there! With the London Podcast Festival only weeks away, I’ve...
BBC Radio 4 Extra's Amanda Litherland on her Podcast Radio Hour, comedy and interviewing
BBC Radio 4 Extra's Podcast Radio Happy Hour has become another way to discover great podcasts, as well as an opportunity for some lucky podcasters to get...
London Podcast Festival programmer Zoë Jeyes is never not listening to a pod
Hi everyone, I’ve been having the busiest August of my life. How is it the 21st already?! However hectic my month is, though, it’s not a patch on that of my...
Guide to the London Podcast Festival 2019 with programmer Zoe Jeyes
Here it is, the Freelance Pod guide to the London Podcast Festival 2019, with programmer Zoë Jeyes! Zoë is Deputy MD and Comedy Programmer at Kings Place,...
Former Sunday Times Style editor Jackie Annesley on swapping newspapers for tech
Hi all, It was a delight to speak to Jackie Annesley about her career in newspapers and her pivot to tech, as Creative Director of Soda Says. Jackie has...
Former Sunday Times Style editor Jackie Annesley on swapping newspapers for tech
"I loved being a journalist," writes Jackie Annesley in a frank essay about losing her last job in journalism, as editor of The Sunday Times Style...
Matt Cooke of Google News Labs still buys his local newspaper - Freelance Pod 31
Hi all, It’s too hot outside, politics is the worst and yeah… if now’s not the time to queue up 239 podcast episodes on your phone, when is? For something...
Matt Cooke of Google News Labs still buys his local newspaper
Matt Cooke is Head of Partnerships & Training, Google News Lab, part of the Google News Initiative. Google News has been a major factor in completely...
Freelance Pod at EastCast Away on Thursday!
Hello! Firstly - I’ve moved over to Substack, thanks to a well-timed tweet from Anna Codrea-Rado, aka The Professional Freelancer. The new sign-up url is...
"Being a refugee is a dream come true" - preview of London Podcast Festival live recording with Syrian comic Abdulwahab Tahhan
Did you know that there's a Freelance Pod live event at the London Podcast Festival in September? Yup, alongside big hitters like The Guilty Feminist, Have...
Why Jenny Stallard is launching Freelance Feels on National Freelancers Day
Journalist, author and founder of the soon-to-be-launched Freelance Feels, Jenny Stallard joins me on the podcast to talk about her career moving from print...
Delia Cai's Deez Links is a Snapchat streak that grew up to be a newsletter
Deez Links is "a dailyish link to cool shit happening in & around the media industry." Each day, Delia Cai - also Growth & Trends Editor at Buzzfeed - sends...
Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones on Black Mirror Season 5
We've got a new season of Black Mirror on Netflix, so here are Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones to talk us through Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, Smithereens...
Mental Health Awareness Week and The Colour of Madness, with Dr Samara Linton
This episode for Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK features Dr Samara Linton, and will be out later today. She tells me about putting together The...
When news met the internet, with Twitter's Director of Curation, Joanna Geary - Part Two
It's part two of my interview with Twitter's Director of Curation, Joanna Geary. She takes us through her career from working at The Guardian to starting out...
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When news met the internet, with Twitter's Director of Curation, Joanna Geary - Part One
Joanna Geary started out as a print journalist in 2004 - as a business reporter on the Birmingham Post - and ended up in charge of Twitter's Curation team in...
What journalists should know about content marketing, with Contently's Deanna Cioppa
Every freelancer I've interviewed for this podcast - or just met in the past 11.5 months of freelancing - has worn multiple work hats. It's just the way of...
Podcasts and newsletters go together, with Caroline Crampton
If you're a keen podcast listener, you might recognise Caroline's name from the Hot Pod newsletter, or, since yesterday, from The Browser's daily inbox...