A true story. It isn’t recent, but it did happen.
Client: You didn’t follow the brief. Me: I’m a journalist. I write facts. When I interviewed people and checked sources it was clear the premise in your brief was untrue. I reported what I found. Client: But that’s not what we asked for. Me: You won’t look stupid. You won’t get sued. Your readers won’t throw X down in disgust. Client: We don’t care. You’re unreliable. You’ll never work for us again.
Of course it would be best if this wasn’t necessary.
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Call me cynical if you like, but this Taipan wireless router is sporting the tech-sector’s equivalent of go-fast stripes. It’s a bit faster than the ISP supplied model, but only marginal improvement.
Found my journalist notebooks from 1998-99. Was given a huge amount of Y2K propaganda by enterprise computer people… much of it sounded a bit over the top at the time…
I’m a journalist.
Writing for newspapers and magazines has been my main job for almost 40 years.
For most of the past decade, I’ve worked seven days a week, 50 weeks of the year. Earlier in my life I had regular jobs which had paid holiday and I didn’t always need to work through the weekend. But still long hours.
I estimate that over the long haul I’ve written an average of 5,000 words a week. That’s around 250,000 a year. Over 40 years it adds up to 10 million words give or take.
A scheme by Auckland Airport is helping local people into work. Which is important as it sits next to an area of high unemployment.