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		<title>The death knock</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My nine-year-old nephew Jamie Bray died in a tragic accident last week, getting caught in a rope swing in his garden, breaking his neck in the fall and ending up hung by the rope. Since then I have had to deal with the press. Being a journalist on the receiving end of journalism is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remote back-up</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/remote-back-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Backing up is something journalists rarely take seriously. But we produce magazines for clients so having back-ups for if – is that when? – things go wring is vital. Today I set up a remote back-up with our three main office Macs mirrored on a machine at my parents house. When I say “I” it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRs need help</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/prs-need-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PR people need help. They appear to have less understanding of how journalists work than ever before. They don’t appreciate deadlines, the speed journalists work at and the hours journalists now work on 24-hour internet media. I have had a couple of weeks of dire experience with PRs. These include: Slow, non-answers &#124; Embargos &#124; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late pay gripes</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/late-pay-gripes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/late-pay-gripes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Other freelances]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, instead of being a journalist and trainer, I spent at least a day dealing with late paying clients. It was mainly AOL, which, until today, had not paid a single freelance contributor, despite us working since December. My company has now been paid more than £10,000 by some clients and we have remittance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banking on me</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/don%e2%80%99t-bank-on-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks may not be lending much money right now but I certainly am. I reckon by the end of this week I will have about £28,500 of invoices outstanding. That is my business lending money to other businesses. And interest free. None of these invoices is even yet overdue – technically. The first will hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embargo farrago</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/embargo-farrago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public relations (PR) officers from insurer AXA gave the trade press and the national press different embargoes for the same story on Friday. Embargoed is a small town in Wales, my old ex-national newspaper editor used to say, emphasising the “ed” sound at the end of the word. It looks like AXA’s PR people give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HMR C’s</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/hmr-c%e2%80%99s/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/hmr-c%e2%80%99s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC carried a story on a tax hoax phishing email this morning, timed at 01.49. I phoned the out of hours HMRC PR at 9am and he did not have the press release, said he would get it to me about 11am and, so far, still hasn’t. Why are PRs so completely useless? Update: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qur’an crimes</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/qur%e2%80%99an-crimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=506</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Should journalists mention facts that will play up racism, even though the source seems impeccable? I did a story yesterday about insurance fraud on Daily Finance. In the course of interviewing the lawyer, she made the statement that the defendants refused to testify in court because they would have had to swear on the Qur’an. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday PR roast</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/sunday-pr-roast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/sunday-pr-roast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accountants Ernst &#38; Young issued a press release today (Sunday) but the named PR, Vicky Conybeer, did not have access to a photo of those quoted in the release because she was not in the office. Why bother releasing it on Sunday or being the named PR if you can’t help working hacks? You get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council tax post</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/council-tax-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/council-tax-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got the figures I needed – though I had to find some via a link on Local Government Chronicle’s website to the Communities department&#8217;s site (new window) that the PR had not found. Interesting that the chief PR seems to think the response “but will be Monday before I can come back to [...]]]></description>
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