What's New


Books Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide is  keeping me busy. First deadline approaching and making that whooshing sound that Douglas Adams liked so much. 

Actually, when I call it a book that's not entirely accurate.There will be a dead tree print-out you can buy in Waterstone's or -more likely - on Amazon, but the heart of the project will be online.There'll be a holding website up in January 2009. The project, designed to take the multimedia journalism student from day one through to graduation is, I believe, ground-breaking.

From my experience, few university courses, and no accrediting bodies, have come to terms with teaching journalism across all the media.
Meanwhile, The NCTJ Essential Guide to Careers in Journalism seems to be selling well.

Consultancy The new website I'm creating with John Cornwell - who, as well as being a distinguished contributor to the Sunday Times Magazine, is director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College Cambridge - is really taking shape.  Inquiring Spirit exists to inform and improve media coverage of science, medicine and technology, and John has asked me to oversee the creation of a site that each week brings together the best writing on science, religion, philosophy and ethics. A distinguished array of contributing editors are signing up, and launch date will be announced soon

Training PMA has just celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine journalism course. See my videos of the celebrations on my blog

Classic Gardening Magazine
This is my new online magazine, slogan: Gardening as it ought to be. I'm having great fun putting it together. Existing gardening magazines are dull, stale and tired. I'm creating a magazine for gardeners who are none of the above.


Writing My summer series for The Tablet, under my pen name of Richard Abbott, is now available online.

Classic Gardening Magazine
Take a look at the Beta version of my new online magazine. Follow this link,