Dave Doyle
Verified
(He/Him)
As seen in:
The Syncopated Times,
The Daily Mirror,
Wales Online,
Bristol Post,
Hull Daily Mail,
Nottingham Post,
Derbyshire Live,
Kent Live,
Gloucestershire Live,
Grimsby Live,
Somerset Live
and
Covers:
courts, travel, news, business, bands, features, crime, charity, entertainment, politics, music, fire, police, unsigned, jazz, science, medicine
Doesn't Cover:
advertising, sales, sport, distribution
✏📸Writer/photog. 🎺Jazz essayist/critic. (Cited in Wikipedia!) 😎📚Copy editor. 💃🕺Swing dancer. 🎹Half-decent pianist. Recent work - muckrack.com/dave
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Reading the traffic and travel news on radio stations Magic 999 and Magic 1152, Manchester.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Only for writing love letters.
How is social media changing news?
Social media has changed wholesale the gathering of news, its presentation (e.g. Al Jazeera's The Stream) and the news agenda.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Ford Prefect, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's roving interplanetary correspondent!
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Representing the public, owning their problems and standing up against authority for them.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
The #myNYPD story was a spectacular oversight of how social media users take ownership of tags and use them to their own ends.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
A Windows PC, an Android smartphone, a video camera and a shorthand notebook!
What's your favorite social network?
It has to be Twitter, both as a source of breaking news and for its impact on the news agenda.
Who do you wish followed you?
BBC News Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen.
Why did you become a journalist?
To write, to travel and to feel job satisfaction.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I worked for Palatinate, the student newspaper at Durham University. I was a subeditor, feature writer and occasional photographer.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Take every opportunity to work in a newsroom, be it print or broadcast. Whatever your preferred medium, it never hurts to have other skills.
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