Clarissa Place's blog


How many more apologies? Footballers pushing the limit

 

“I apologise also to my manager, playing colleagues and everyone at Liverpool for letting them down.”

It would be easy to say Luis Suarez has bitten off more than he can chew with his latest antics on the pitch.

Legacy or limiting dreams?

 

The London Olympics, the jewel of 2012 has crowned it's sporting stars with the ultimate bonus of £374million.

Trip to TV show The Agenda

For anyone interested I have been offered tickets to the ITV show The Agenda.

David Cameron is set to be one guest on the show and I was wondering if a group of us wanted to go and watch, I think there is a chance to ask the guest questions, so it's possibly a story opportunity.

If as many people could let me know today the show is filming is on Monday 5th November at 6.15pm in London. 

 

Leon McCarron, ‘The Cycling Reporter’: ‘Embrace opportunity and embrace change.’

“You never feel more alive than when you’re about to fall off a cliff in China.” said ‘cycling reporter’ Leon McCarron, who, in the last two years has travelled 17,500 miles, by bicycle and by foot.

After being held at gunpoint, cycling through a tornado and being arrested up to 16 times on his travels. McCarron has documented his journeys through filming for National Geographic and in writing for The Sunday Times and The Guardian.

NCTJ Photography Seminar

If anyone hasn't been able to check their emails recently, there was one from the NCTJ about a photography seminar. 

It takes place on  Thursday, 27 September 2012 from 3pm-5.30pm at the Press Association building.

Address: 292 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1AE

Alex Crawford: women reporters are essential to foreign news coverage

“Female reporters are essential” to foreign reporting. That was the message from award-winning journalist Alex Crawford, as she delivered the Bob Friend Memorial Lecture at the Centre for Journalism last night.

Crawford said: “Egypt was and is a dangerous place for reporters whether you are male or female. The whole of the coverage of the Arab Spring has been incredibly dangerous for all of us." 

Crawford added "but should that be an argument for not sending woman reporters to Egypt – or any front line? Of course not.”

Her impassioned  argument is given more significance this morning by the news of the death of Marie Colvin, another multiple-award-winning journalist, in Syria.

The US Remake Drive

 

So boys where is Peckham in America?

 

The cost of being young

Wednesday 16 November was another blow for young people everywhere, and it wasn’t to do with university fees.

 Officially one million young people cannot find a job.

 To add to the fact that jobs are sparse and competition is fierce. At Bluewater shopping centre, Kent, John Lewis posted 240 Christmas jobs, a nice bonus in the current economic climate.

 There is just one problem… 2,000 people applied.