The Worksop Guardian is a local weekly newspaper based in Nottinghamshire. I reported on Rotherham United Football Club for the 2011/12 football season for the newspaper and its website. During this time I contributed comment articles and match reports to the newspaper. Below is a selection of the articles: First win in five for the Millers …
The Northampton Chronicle and Echo is a local weekly newspaper which covers my home town of Northampton. I have contributed articles and reports from the Northampton Table Tennis League (having been a keen player previously) since 2009 and continue to do so. This is done on a weekly basis. Trott shows his class as Unity …
I spent time as a news reporter producing stories for the UK’s major newspapers. This role included reporting on breaking news, court cases, and inquests as well as sourcing original exclusive stories for all of the national newspapers. I was also responsible for monitoring local news, competitors and social media for stories that may be …
I created, built, and run the website FOI Directory. It is based around the Freedom of Information Act in the UK – which allows members of the public the right to access information from authorities. FOI Directory can be found here. Twitter account for the website is here. The website is a combination of more than …
I currently work for Progressive Digital Media as a deputy editor on a range of their business-to-business digital magazines and have been involved in launching a new consumer magazine. Factor: I have been involved with the launch of Factor Magazine – a science, innovation and technology website and digital magazine. The website covers a broad …
This post was originally posted on my old website matt-burgess.co.uk and was written during late 2012. There’s no doubt that when you use one online service for a score of different things, from email to files, that they are going to have a lot of information about you. When I looked at the information Google …
This post was originally published on my old website matt-burgess.co.uk and originally was written in early 2012. When the University of Sheffield gym swimming pool closed for repairs at the end of 2010, the news didn’t really concern me. Over a year and a half later I’ve written, read and overseen thousands of words on …
This post was originally published on my old website matt-burgess.co.uk and originates from around December 2011. We started out reporting a shocking, untimely and saddening accident outside our local student bar but since then the story has made it through the commercial media to be twisted into something to make money. Forge Press have reported …