“But what’s the local angle,” my irritable news editor would bark across the office floor at least 10 times every day. Inevitably, there was one. And the Chronicle, like every local and regional newspaper back in the day, would pride itself on finding some close-to-home connection to the biggest story of the day — however …
If you’re someone who reads the news — maybe you even subscribe to a high-quality, regionally-focused online outlet — it’s easy to forget how little of what makes the headlines actually cuts through. To the average person on Stockton High Street on a Saturday afternoon, or at Morpeth Morrisons on a Wednesday evening, their knowledge …
One of the perks of joining a local newspaper back in the 1990s was the chance to write about anything and everything. Sure, there were specialist senior reporters who regularly mopped up the front page exclusives on crime, politics, education and health. But that still left plenty more for the general news pool and, as …
Tony Baker, one of the North East’s most eminent journalists and broadcasters, has died, aged 76, following a long illness. Ever-present on BBC screens for almost 30 years, his communication skills, empathy and understanding of ‘the story’, meant Tony was comfortable in the presence of a huge spectrum of people from Prime Ministers and Parliamentarians, …
A special archive collecting and documenting the pioneering work of BBC journalist and author Kate Adie is being created in her native North East. Back in 2005 the Wearside-born veteran broadcaster, who spent decades on the front line of international journalism, donated her back catalogue of notebooks, tapes, letters, photographs, video footage and fan mail …
I’ve never been good with heights. As a six-year-old (maybe seven or even eight?) I remember standing at the top of the slide at the leisure pool in Whitley Bay (Gen Z might know it as Waves), frozen to the spot and clinging onto my younger brother, all the while wailing for my mam. Kids …
They say ‘never meet your heroes’. In truth, I’m not sure who says that or who ‘they’ really are? I’ve always loved meeting my heroes and intend to meet many, many more. Maybe a more appropriate nugget of advice would be ‘always meet your heroes — just limit your expectations’. It’s served me well down …
What is The QT? Who are the people behind it? Why is it even called The QT? Former BBC Inside Out presenter Chris Jackson is once again behind the microphone and asking us the questions. Around the table are me, Brian Aitken, founder and editor of The QT, features editor Sam Wonfor and associate editor …
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