My company, Passionate Media, offers a range of tailored training services for journalists at different stages of their career as well as for in-house communications teams.
We deliver training days in London and Birmingham as well as correspondence courses and one-to-one mentoring. Dates for 2011/2012 are being finalised.
Please get in touch if you would like to know more by contacting Passionate Media's marketing director, Carol Garrington by emailing Carol[at]passionatemedia.co.uk.
Workshops and mentoring include:
An introduction to freelance journalism
Boosting your freelance career through writing for commercial clients
Blogging for journalists
Everything you wanted to know about social media but were too embarrassed to ask
Public speaking
Latest appearances to discuss career-boosting social media tips include:
Musical Minis national meeting
Best of Telford
Regular workshops through the Chase division of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Last year I led a workshop on pitching and feature writing at the Weekend of Writing at York University. I spoke to the United Nations Youth and Student Association at Birmingham University in 2008.
Other audiences include:
Broadcasting
Interviews on various topics, including blogging, twins and trying and failing to losing weight, (that's about a million times) have been broadcast by regional and national media, including Sky, BBC World Service, Radio Five Live, Central News and Radio WM.
Comments:
Thanks for a very enlightening day. I feel like a Jedi Knight to your Obe Wan Kenobi. Catherine Goddard
Thank you! It was a fantastic day! Emma McNeil
Thanks Carol and Linda for today and the kick up the bum, enjoyed course. Michael Cross
Course was brilliant, thank you. Really useful. Siobhan O' Neill
Thanks so much for the fab seminar - it was sooo helpful and have come away full of ideas and plans. You and Carol were both brilliant. Olivia Gordon
Thanks to you and Carol for a really great training day today - definitely the best course I've been on for a while. You two should add life coaching to your list of talents. Olivia Hardy
Just wanted to say thanks for the fab course, Linda and Carol - very informative, inspiring and good fun too. Judy Yorke
I'd like to add my grateful thanks for the well-delivered and extremely interesting course - it was great to meet such creative, positive and friendly people and I now feel inspired and ready to take the plunge into a new and different world. Ruth Derrick
Seriously, those of who didn't make it should pester Linda and Carol to do another one - it was excellent. Patricia Carswell
Brilliant, thank you both for a very informative and enjoyable day. I think much of what we learned will be of huge benefit in all areas of our working life. Amanda Lees
I thought it was the best course I've been on - full of practical advice and illustrative examples. It has really got me motivated and excited about getting out there and chasing down the commercial work. Thanks. Emma Jayne Jones
I'd like to extend my warm thanks to you once again for participating at the UNYSA-UK Conference. Your presentation really did make such a valuable contribution to the day, and the amount of discussion that it inspired after the conference was testament to just how much it was enjoyed by all. "I have no doubt that you have opened the eyes of many of our members, highlighting to them just what the possibilities are when it comes to raising the profile of their campaigns. Thank you once again. UNYSA past president, Luke Harman
