Category: journalism

I’ve been asked a few times in the last week or so about what is happening at Centaur Media and what the implications will be...

If I were to write a blog post every time I saw an inappropriate use of numbers in the general media, well, I’d have a...

There is a growing consensus among journalists and editors that the present embargo system is broken and should be abandoned. It is a subject I’ve...

Earlier today a young couple got married in London and, to celebrate the occasion, we all got the day off work. I arrived at the...

What follows below is my original editorial column for the Laboratorytalk weekly newsletter, 30 March 2011. It was deemed too controversial to use. A rare...

I have been known to shout at the television. I know it doesn’t help, but it makes me feel better. I was certainly doing so...

Embargoes are a tricky topic for me, as for many journalists. They exist, ostensibly, to enable us to research a story before it becomes ‘officially’...

This looks like being quite a week in the search for extraterrestrial life. Today the European Southern Observatory has released details of the first analysis...

The following is my original Laboratorytalk editor’s column from 13 October 2010. Automation, whether in the laboratory or on the factory floor, has been sold...

I’ve been greatly enjoying the unfolding Wanky Balls saga initiated by Kat Arney this week. Kat is a fellow science writer, a scientist, and a...