It is 2 months since an earthquake shattered parts of central Italy, killing 298 people and leaving several thousand homeless. Four weeks into the relief operation, I headed off on a mobi…
Source: Meeting Italy’s shaken people
Author patrickgjackson
Backlog
Hoping to finish this summer all the pages I want to write about my journalism. Things change so fast, the early trips for the website look like parchment now. One day when I get rich I’ll post videos straight to the WordPress pages too.
One post a year?
Nearly a year has flashed by since I opened this site. Much of it I spent on attachment to World TV, a few desks away from Online in the New Broadcasting House newsroom but a leap into the dark for someone who has always associated news production with the website. I hope to add a few pages shortly on my latest experiences of mobile journalism, which took me to Paris and Spain last year. 
Home at last
After a decade writing news and features for BBC World Online, I have decided to bring my pieces together in one place. Most were posted on Twitter and Tumblr but those that stretch back into the pre-social media era were feeling lonely. Hopefully the stories here keep resonating, in Europe (my stamping ground) and beyond.
Journalism students with an interest in how website reporting is evolving may find my work interesting as I was the first member of our team to use our new digital reporting kit in anger (March 2014 in Crimea). Oh yes, I wear the technical flaws with pride.
That’s me in the mafia shirt above, by the way, interviewing Podemos activists in Spain last May Day.
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