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Journalists, photographers, researchers and sub-editors who have been made redundant, retired or otherwise farewelled from a media outlet can learn how to re-establish themselves at a workshop at Parramatta RSL Club on Friday, August 24. Through practical exercises, Create Your Post-media Success will help participants understand the fundamentals of business, discover the numerous career options available in a changing landscape and pinpoint their focus. Deep Hill Media photo

UNEXPECTEDLY finding ourselves in the world of PR and having to adopt a customer service attitude and wear a permanent smile was an exhausting chore at first. Then about two years after “going to the dark side’’, we made a surprising realisation: forced positivity had actually made us more positive people. Don’t get me wrong, comments like “the partner did it’’ and bet he jumped before he was pushed’’ still pepper news bulletins in our household, my handbag is clutched to my

By Ellen Hill ONE of the most stressful yet rewarding tasks of my role as a communications consultant has been to design, organise and run media famils, which are particularly relevant to the tourism and hospitality industry, of which many of my clients are members. Unlike a pollie doorstop, a police media conference or even sipping a cup of tea in a pensioner’s lounge room while they tell you the secret to long life, a familiarisation visit offers journalists a firsthand imm

I always wanted to be a journalist. Never thought of being anything else. And for nearly 20 years I lived my dream, met my photojournalist husband in the newsroom and raised our son as a newshound. News and media was our life. In those days, journos would climb the editorial ladder, go to the subs desk and become editors. Those who left media would work as press secretaries to politicians, head media teams in government departments and churn out media releases at charities an