Polaroid Child

 On the 14th December, my latest single 'The Fear Won't Go Away' came out on Soundcloud for all to hear. It is completely self produced and one of my favourite songs I've written in a long time. This year has been a rollarcoaster of emotions for everyone. With the lockdowns bringing about feelings of loneliness and friends passing away, this song really refelcts a lot of I've felt this year. The lyrics are a combination of old messages that were sent by old friends and the emotions I feel while reading them. I really do hope that everyone has enjoyed listening to this song that means ever so much to me.  Recently on this blog, I've written a lot about grief and how it has effected my life over the past few years. Creating music to help express the emotions that I have been feeling has helped bring some sort of relief. The feedback that has been recieved from previous posts has also been incredibly positive and encouraging to keep on going. 

Dame Ann Leslie has been a journalist for over 50 years mostly working for the right-wing tabloid, The Daily Mail. She has openly spoken about many difficulties she faced during her long career and as a woman working in a male dominant industry, sexism and sexual assault in the workplace was normalised at the time. In 1962, Leslie started her career in Manchester working at the Daily Express at only 21 years old. She later moved to the Daily Mail, where she remained for the most part of her prolific career. Broadcast journalism interested young Leslie greatly and she managed to become a regular current affairs broadcaster at the BBC, Sky and multiple other international broadcasting stations. Across the course of her life, she has won multiple awards, interviewed some of the most influential people of her time and even been referred to as 'the most versatile reporter ever'.  In recent years, Leslie has become more of a controversial figure in the mainstream media with her outsp...

Throughout the past eight weeks, I have been learning about the history of the journalism industry. There are many things I have learnt that have given me in-depth knowledge about a subject I have never considered learning about before. Other things such as learning about women in journalism, has made appreciate how much each movement of feminism has enabled female journalists today to be able to do the work that they do.  Learning about the history of the BBC really made me think about how diverse our media industry is now in the 21st century. We are so lucky to be able to express ourselves with a lot less censorship or legal boundaries stopping people of all races, sexualities, gender and classes being able to be involved in the media. The move towards digital has allowed people from all different backgrounds to become a journalist in some shape or form. The digitalisation of the media has meant that there more people's interests are written about and catered to than ever before....