Tag Archives: Business

Is manufacturing the key to the region’s future? 20/10/2016

Posted on by
Reply

A local businessman came to me with this story idea many months before the paper changed style. The then editor told me not to proceed as we were not doing features of this type and it was not “hard news”.

Great Southern Weekender, October 20, 2016, pp 8 and 9.

Great Southern Weekender, October 20, 2016, pp 8 and 9.

After a change of management we were required to produce a two-page feature in every edition, and suddenly this story became newsworthy.X20ALB_008-9P

As a journalist it is important to be able to tailor your writing to a publication’s subject matter. There is no merit in producing work that does not get published.

NB: I did not write the side panel.

 

Pressure on City over Rex hangar deal 3/12/2015

Posted on by

ALBANY’s Mayor said the City had fewer than three months to build a large aircraft hangar if Regional Express Airlines (Rex) was to start operating early morning flights in late February.

Click on this image to read the story.

Click on this image to read the story.

In late November, Albany Mayor Dennis
Wellington and Member for
Albany Peter Watson said the
airline, which was the State Government’s
preferred tenderer for
the Perth to Albany route, was yet
to speak to anyone from Albany.

“I would have thought it would
have been a really good idea to
come and talk to us before we get
too excited about anything,” Mr
Wellington said.

There are various ways of reporting a local government story.

Some like to concentrate on personalities.

I prefer to show how a given issue will affect everyday people’s lives.

The Mayor’s disappointment at the City not being consulted is worth noting, but not the story’s main angle from my point of view.

The Great Southern Weekender, December 3, 2015.