Social media revives the big Christmas TV event

Social media revives the big Christmas TV event

by Hawk Editorial Comment Closed
Remember a few years back, when there were only five channels (or fewer)? Before the explosion of satellite and digital TV, the main Christmas Day TV event would unite households the country over. Whether it was Morecambe and Wise, Only Fools or The Royle Family, or even (spit) EastEnders, up to 20 million would all tune in at once and these Christmas specials would be among the main Boxing Day talking points. In latter years this dissipated as more and more people were able to access infinitely more channels, and the Sky Plus facility made it even easier for viewers to record and save multiple programmes to watch whenever they wanted. The 'TV event' was certainly losing its impact as the millennium came and went. However, the advent of social media, far from fragmenting viewing habits yet further, is helping bring viewers back together. Many TV series now actively encourage live interaction through Twitter hashtags, so one really has to be watching a...
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A new road ahead

A new road ahead

by Hawk Editorial Comment Closed
Well, I am finally ready to roll this site out and start promoting it to the wider world, and I've now set up Hawk Editorial as a limited company. Working for myself is something I've wanted to do for some time, but lately a more urgent need to get it up and running it has been prompted by the very real likelihood of redundancy in my current employment, and I'm sure many people (especially journalists such as myself) are following the same route, or thinking about it. As I'm just starting out down this road I can't say whether it's a foolhardy decision or not, but the way I see it, it is best to have as many irons in as many fires as possible in this current climate. While I wouldn't recommend spreading yourself too thinly, I certainly believe that the Jack of all trades (or, to put it more kindly, the multiskilled worker) has more chance of making money nowadays...
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New website

by Hawk Editorial Comment Closed
Hello everyone, I'm Sam Hawcroft and this is the first post on this new website I've set up to promote my services as a skilled proofreader, copy editor and designer. This site is still under construction, and I'll be putting up more details and examples of my work soon - but if you'd like to contact me to arrange a job, please don't hesitate to do so via the contact page. I'm based in Hull and over the years I've been a senior sub-editor at the Hull Daily Mail, Teletext assistant editor and TV listings manager at the Press Association, and more recently the editor/designer of H&E naturist, the world's leading naturist magazine. I am a member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, and achieved a Merit in the Publishing Training Centre's Basic Proofreading Course - the only such course generally recognised by the industry. I've written and edited features on a variety of topics including travel and sport, and am...
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