My guest today is Georgina Fuller who has been a journalist for over 20 years. She mostly writes for national newspapers, like The Times, The Telegraph and magazines. Her subjects are broadly lifestyle topics, including parenting, travel and neurodiversity.

Georgina talks about how she started out in journalism, and how originally she worked on business to business articles, writing about trends in the workplace, HR, and interviews, whereas now, being freelance she can write about all sorts of different and wonderful things.

She also shares how she started writing first person articles; writing about her personal experiences. Writing about life without her Mum, and then about her brothers’ schizophrenia and death, and subsequently about her own autistic son she has touched so many other people’s lives. Because of her job, she has had access to people who are skilled and experienced in the fields of health she has been talking about. Georgina loves the fact that the world is beginning to open up and talking about, challenging and changing the stigmas surrounding mental health. Sharing her own experiences starts conversations with others.

We also talk about the trend with the rise in social media, for editors looking for stories that draw ‘clicks’, ie click bait. Although Georgina doesn’t like it, sadly working in journalism today it’s something you can’t really ignore.

Not surprisingly, Georgina has many great stories, some of which she shares. She also shares how at times she also receives negative responses – and how she deals with them.

To contact Georgina:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginafullerwriter/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgina-fuller-6b785913/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009800910804

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