Like A Journalist, by JPF

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What’s On Your Desk?
Phil has a box of chocolates, a coat hanger and a roll of loo paper
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The Editor Asked Me to Ghostwrite His Wife's Story
I posted this on LinkedIn and received some RATHER STRANGE comments
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How to keep track of your writing project so you don’t edit the wrong version
This is the formula I use to avoid wailing and gnashing of teeth
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Why I bought a typewriter, and what I use it for
Sometimes, in fact quite often, the computer and iPhone do my head in.
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0:55
An Interviewer Who Never Meant To Be Published
William Drummond was just writing notes in his diary.
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How to avoid distraction?
I’m going back to occasional use of my typewriter, to avoid distraction when I write.
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Which interview situation sounds most like yours?
Some predicaments, in list format
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4:56
“Eland Books HQ”
Inside a small publisher's office. Artist In Residence report
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On listening to something dry - but gripping
I listened to a podcast series that makes little effort to please. So how did it grab me?
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7:54
Kenneth Harris: No tape recording, no written notes
Harris did some impressive interviews for The Observer. How did he remember it all?
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1:00
Studs Terkel: “You can learn anything from anyone at any time“
… So said the great Chicagoan radio host, who continued to interview the famous and the uncelebrated into his 90s.
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0:58
"Journalists are not your friends"
...said one journalist, to another, who was being interviewed at the time
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Like A Journalist, by JPF
Like A Journalist, by JPF
Words and pix by John-Paul Flintoff, ex-Financial Times and Sunday Times of London. Author of seven books 📚 in 16 languages.
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