The 3 Best Freelance Pod Podcast Episodes
1) When news met the internet, with Twitter's Director of Curation, Joanna Geary - Part Two
It's part two of my interview with Twitter's Director of Curation, Joanna Geary. She takes us through her career from working at The Guardian to starting out at Twitter in 2013, with loads of great in...Show More
2) When news met the internet, with Twitter's Director of Curation, Joanna Geary - Part One
Joanna Geary started out as a print journalist in 2004 - as a business reporter on the Birmingham Post - and ended up in charge of Twitter's Curation team in 2017. That's a job and a company that didn...Show More
3) Former Sunday Times Style editor Jackie Annesley on swapping newspapers for tech
"I loved being a journalist," writes Jackie Annesley in a frank essay about losing her last job in journalism, as editor of The Sunday Times Style supplement, where, among many other things, she commi...Show More
4) Alex Farrow on how stand-up comedy and teaching inform each other
This episode is all about how to put together a live solo one-hour show and other comedy things as comedian, director and teacher Alex Farrow joins me on the podcast. Teaching is a performance and lo...Show More
5) "I've found a lot of positives from being on Twitter" - comedian and PR Vix Leyton on how her two careers work together in a digital age
Freelance Pod is back with some comedy-focussed episodes! I've made a little entry into the comedy industry during lockdown, and the pod is following me into this wild new world... Please note the ne...Show More
6) Critiquing the media in a digital age, with Mic Wright and his newsletter, Conquest of the Useless
Journalist, poet and publisher / writer of media criticism newsletter Conquest of the Useless, Mic Wright guests on this episode. This is the last one of the current second season. Don't worry though,...Show More
7) The future of work is everyone using their influence, with writer Lauren Razavi
Lauren Razavi joins me on this episode to talk about the future of work, how writers can use influencer tools to benefit their careers and what the digital nomad lifestyle might look like post-COVID-1...Show More
The future of work is everyone using their influence, with writer Lauren Razavi
28:37 | Jul 19th, 2020
8) From the Egyptian revolution to pandemic lockdown, with Kim Fox of The American University in Cairo
In 2011, two years after American radio producer and reporter Kim Fox had moved to Cairo to take up a teaching role at The American University of Cairo, the Egyptian Revolution happened, in response t...Show More
9) "Dialling down the feminism" with writer and comedian Alex Bertulis-Fernandes
Alex Bertulis-Fernandes is a comedian and writer. She's been doing stand-up for the past year, and she is writing a memoir while being mentored on the Penguin WriteNow mentoring scheme*. Alex and I m...Show More
"Dialling down the feminism" with writer and comedian Alex Bertulis-Fernandes
25:41 | Jun 30th, 2020
10) "Grief is an incredibly creative experience" - Author Flora Baker on self-publishing The Adult Orphan Club
Freelance writer and author Flora Baker has combined memoir and a self-help guide in her first book, The Adult Orphan Club. Flora lost her mother at 20, and her father at 30, just a few years ago. We ...Show More