Currently recruiting for the third year of our Podcasting MA and are grateful to our partners for their fantastic support. Students can apply for our Changemakers programme which offers a £25,000 Spotify Scholarship and a £5,000 Goalhanger bursary www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-...

Proud to lead this team at BBC Three Counties Radio. Tonight we picked up a Radio Academy award for Radio Moment of the Year for our coverage of Radio 1’s Big Weekend. Thanks to all the listeners and all the Coldplay fans that voted

Thanks to @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social for a great review of the Toxic Waste Scandal www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Returning to the Captain Tom Story one more time. On Monday we sat down for an hour with Hannah Ingram-Moore and she addressed the issues and allegations we laid out in the series. You can find all episodes on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Prof @melbunce.bsky.social @cityjournalism.bsky.social opening the UK Media Freedom Forum at CityStGeorges. A two day event at an important moment as journalism and journalists face both old and new threats across the globe. Full brochure here mediafreedomforum.co.uk/wp-content/u...

New for your ears - In Detail:The Toxic Waste Scandal tells the story of the steelworks in Corby where the toxins from the plant caused such harm to so many. There’s also a 4 part Netflix drama with Jodie Whittaker. All eps on BBC Sounds, weekly drops on all platforms www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

2025. The year of the podcast reboot. Welcome back Answer Me This.

Olga Koch was fantastic at @sohotheatre.bsky.social tonight. She Comes From Money runs until the 21st. Go see her sohotheatre.com/events/olga-...

Thanks to @podnews.net for featuring our new project. @cityjournalism.bsky.social students will make a podcast series for the UN. Fantastic to be partnering with them, exciting things to come bit.ly/49bVWVM

New Nish Kumar tour show was just brilliant at St Albans Arena tonight. Suspect I laughed more than most at the amount of grief he dished out to various podcasts

The CEO of @bsky.app is only 33 and the company has 20 employees. youtu.be/Xa-EvA95Eqw?...

Emergency podcast! Sorry, forgive me, I never get to do that. And to be honest it wasn't an emergency, we just made another one. A brand new episode of the Captain Tom podcast following the release of the Charity Commission report. Previous 7 episodes on BBC Sounds also www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Top night watching Katherine Ryan at the Alban Arena. The Battleaxe tour runs into 2025 including six nights at the London Palladium

Top night at the Audio Production Awards, well done to all the winners. Great to see Taqwa Sadiq and the Peanut and Crumb team win big after speaking at @cityjournalism.bsky.social on Monday #apas

25 minute train journey and the two women opposite me have spent the entire time talking about the new Radio 2 schedule and offering opinions on every presenter. Fascinating! Radio matters to people.

Great evening at cityjournalism.bsky.social celebrating this years British Podcast award winners. There were fascinating insights from gold winners @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @marksandell.bsky.social, Taqwa Sadiq, Bella Neale, Jane Gerber, Jack Howson and Jordan Dunbar. Thanks to all who came.

Sharing my blogpost about City St George's Podcast Gold event, which brings together the VIPs (Very Important Podcasters) of the UK scene and celebrates some of the British Podcast Award winners. Find out who's speaking tomorrow & listen to podcast clips on the link below! wordonthesquare.com?p=116

Great few days in and around Ljubljana working with the Media 24 team and speaking at the Sempli Media Trends Conference in Portoroz about visualising audio and podcasts alongside Andy Wood for @spiritland.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking to Slovenia and Croatian media at the Sempl Media Trends conference later in a room that’s bigger than anticipated!

Well it seems nice round these parts. Just been writing a script for this, an evening of British Podcast Award winners at City University next Monday. Free sign up here. Starts at 6.30pm, drinks sponsored by YouTube from 8 www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...