Journalism Training: Face to Face or Online?

Training now is – like it or not – a mix of online and face to face.  Online training makes things fairer – anyone can join in from anywhere in the world. Face to face is just that little bit more… fun. I recently ran in-person sessions for the BBC in London for the World Service ‘Future Voices’ scheme. I got a round of applause at the end. You don't get that online.

Meanwhile, I also visited nearly 20 libraries in the past few months talking about my fiction writing. I love libraries; all those books for free! Although we authors do actually get a little money when you take our books out under the Public Lending Rights (PLR) scheme. That way everyone gets access to books and writers get a little something in return. That sounds fair to me.