Mark McDonald
Mark McDonald is a former BBC World News Producer who leads Washington DC-based Birkdale Media, a coaching and consulting group in media and communications for non-profits, international organizations, and business entrepreneurs.-
Internet
How to restore real voices at work when Email tamps down productivity
Photo: Email bdtbt.png/Wikipedia Email is consuming our time, confusing both our personal and professional relationships, commandeering our attention at work, and over-complicating our lives. Here are some suggestions to create more harmony. When I was a... -
Journalism
How to be a real journalist in the age of fake news
Image: Reading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, Credit: Pollinator Wikimedia Commons Trawling aimlessly through my Twitter feed it dawned on me that it sometimes has a lot in common with the Lancashire... -
Journalism
Traditional ways still the best to get your foot in the newsroom door
FEATURED IMAGE by Kai Mörk via Wikimedia Commons How do you show how you’d make a great journalist when you’re still at school? There are ways to demonstrate you have the right stuff. You’ve been studying... -
Media
The Media’s Trump-inspired Identity Crisis
As the large swath of the USA formerly known by the city elites as “the flyover zone” continues to gloat at Donald Trump’s ascendancy to the White House, the mainstream media are feeling his “shoot the...