Most reporters – writers, for that matter – are content to remain incognito and hide behind their bylines. Most of us are solitary, private creatures, content to tap out our novel/article/short story on our laptop in some secret loft somewhere. Publicising ourselves just isn’t really in our nature.
But I recently took a course about social media which changed my long-standing belief that I should hide behind my byline. It’s just prudent, in our social-media obsessed world, to promote thyself. And it’s even more vital for journalists now to engage the Internet – especially when newspapers are now facing the biggest shakeup in their history. Even my BFF who’s doing an MSc in Creating Writing in Scotland is being told to blog, and she, a long reluctant blogger, has set up webspace at last.
So, here I go: Introducing my column, Popculture Vulture. It’s an occasional column (too occasional, sometimes – my apologies) about TV, film and other popculture stuff.
I always have a blast writing them, so I hope you have a blast reading them too.
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Wow. That felt weird.
This is going to get some getting used to. 
