27/12/2014
Drawing upon the full majesty of his 11 years speedway reporting Paul (Burbo) Burbidge’s digital social media profile continues to revolutionise our often turgid speedway reporting landscape. Part of a new breed of digitally savvy speedway journalists (“I write news for Speedway GP website and manage speedway gp social media. I’m also Speedway Star’s Chief […]
26/12/2013
Some romantics still believe the proper function of news journalism and news reporters is to try to speak truth to power. Sadly in the English language speedway media universe – without so much as a blush or backward glance – reporters usually only provide news and opinion suitable to those who pay them or, at […]
30/09/2012
Here’s an article on speedway and Twitter that appeared in the Newcastle v Somerset magazine dated 30th September 2012 Twitter didn’t exist seven years ago and now has 500 million users posting 350 million tweets a day. Understandably, there has seen an explosion of riders taking to Twitter to share their thoughts, opinions, photos (see […]