Archive - Like A Journalist, by JPF

What’s On Your Desk?

Phil has a box of chocolates, a coat hanger and a roll of loo paper

Mar 13 •

John-Paul Flintoff

January 2025

The Editor Asked Me to Ghostwrite His Wife's Story

I posted this on LinkedIn and received some RATHER STRANGE comments

Jan 9 •

John-Paul Flintoff

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

Jan 8 •

John-Paul Flintoff

5:21

May 2024

Why I bought a typewriter, and what I use it for

Sometimes, in fact quite often, the computer and iPhone do my head in.

May 24, 2024 •

John-Paul Flintoff

An Interviewer Who Never Meant To Be Published

William Drummond was just writing notes in his diary.

May 8, 2024 •

John-Paul Flintoff

0:55

How to avoid distraction?

I’m going back to occasional use of my typewriter, to avoid distraction when I write.

May 8, 2024 •

John-Paul Flintoff

Which interview situation sounds most like yours?

Some predicaments, in list format

May 7, 2024 •

John-Paul Flintoff

4:56

“Eland Books HQ”

Inside a small publisher's office. Artist In Residence report

May 3, 2024 •

John-Paul Flintoff

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?

May 1, 2024 •

John-Paul Flintoff

7:54

April 2024

Kenneth Harris: No tape recording, no written notes

Harris did some impressive interviews for The Observer. How did he remember it all?

Apr 10, 2024 •

John-Paul Flintoff

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.

Apr 6, 2024 •

John-Paul Flintoff

0:58

March 2024

"Journalists are not your friends"

...said one journalist, to another, who was being interviewed at the time

Mar 13, 2024 •

John-Paul Flintoff

1:34

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