How my live-tweeting experience attracted attention from celebrities and gained over 80,000 impressions… Microblogging, like multimodality, has changed the way we share and consume news. Instead of waiting patiently for the headlines at 6 pm, microblogging sites like Twitter have allowed social media users, like me, to access breaking news…

An analysis of my own experience using multimodality on Instagram stories and why I think it is critical for journalists in the digital age. Hopefully, by now, you have realised that alongside my journalism blog I also run several social media accounts that flag breaking news stories that offer my…

Anti-vaxxers. Allergic reactions. Bell’s Palsy. Last Tuesday, the courageous Margaret Keenan, aged 90, marked history as the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital in Coventry. …

After opening up about the tragic miscarriage she experienced earlier this year, it seems her powerful words of grief were not enough to sway some journalist's opinions. Following on from my previous blog post that discussed the unjust representations of women in showbiz journalism, I thought I would extend the…

A tradition that has existed for decades but is it even newsworthy? How come The Daily Mail and Mail Online objectify women when the majority of its daily readership is female? This question has been plaguing my mind for a while now. Are women in 2020 not fed up with…

A guide to defamation law and how to avoid a costly court case — When thinking about journalism it probably isn’t often you think about the legal aspects associated with that profession. However, journalists face an abundance of legal challenges with defamation cases being the most common. …

Face masks. Social distancing. Online interviews. — Reporting news can be difficult at the best of times, never mind during a global pandemic when journalists and undergraduate students, like myself, are having to adjust to the new reality of reporting from home. …

My five highlights from interning at Make More Noise, a PR and marketing agency in Birmingham. Earlier this year I was lucky enough to intern at Make More Noise, a PR and marketing agency in Birmingham for seven weeks whilst my university was closed for the summer. …