Guerilla Gardening! (Or the "I got published by the BBC" big up thread)

THMRK · 15 Mar 2010 at 22:20

So, since the start of January I've been part of a journalism program at BBC Scotland here in Glasgow, basically learning the ins and outs of the BBC, it's services and its editorial polices and standards etc.

The result of this was to cover a news story and the one I was assigned too was guerilla gardening in Glasgow. Being part of the online team I came up with an idea to write a feature about the history of the guerilla gardening movement. You can read my feature here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8548005.stm

I'm pretty proud of not only being published on the BBC website but also of having my very first byline.

The editor appears to have created a couple of typos that I never put in there, mind you...

Biohazard · 15 Mar 2010 at 22:34

Well done for the article, it was a good informative read. I would be very pleased if I got an article on the BBC, even if I didn't particularly agree with them on the whole or not proud as you say.

I'm happy Glasgow council are actually endorsing/encouraging this in what are overly politically correct times - look at Aberdeen council last year I think it was threatening local residents with court action over H&S ground those who were cutting communal and public grass areas when the council ran out of money to do so.

Thumbs up for common sense.

THMRK · 15 Mar 2010 at 22:38

Aye that really surprised me. We'd heard from the guerilla gardeners that Glasgow City Council was quite positive about it. We'd heard there was some resistance to the "movement" in London but nothing about it up. So we interviewed Stevie Scott at Glasgow Land Services and he was very positive about it and very happy about the whole guerilla gardening thing in Glasgow.

Interview with him is on this news piece we also ran http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8550101.stm

My group also took care of that TV segment which was on Reporting Scotland this afternoon.

SiriusB · 15 Mar 2010 at 23:29

Was an interested read. You are very much entitled to be proud of yourself, mister!

Tom0 · 15 Mar 2010 at 23:49

SiriusB said:
Was an interested read. You are very much entitled to be proud of yourself, mister!

Agreed, thanks for sharing Woody.

Rameses · 16 Mar 2010 at 00:19

Yeah nice read Woody, nice work and how awesome do the grenades sound lol, I know a few places around my neck of the woods where they could be useful to get a bit life back growing!

JaFFa · 16 Mar 2010 at 00:39

That's really cool, though I'd get the opening paragraph fixed

BBC Scotland takes a look at the history of movement.

I read a book on this a while back. It's one of those things I'd like to do but never get around to.

trent · 16 Mar 2010 at 06:38

The title made me think of gorillas with lawnmowers with pink aprons on while planting flowers. To say I'm disappointed is a understatement

but congrats anyway.

qqg3 · 16 Mar 2010 at 07:33

Congrats on the article, good breakfast read too.

Morgoth · 16 Mar 2010 at 09:34

Woody__ said:
The editor appears to have created a couple of typos that I never put in there, mind you...

Aha, that doesn't surprise me. For a world leading news organisation the BBC website doesn't half overflow with spelling and grammar errors.

BloodyL · 16 Mar 2010 at 10:10

Congrats!

platypus · 16 Mar 2010 at 10:33

Congratulations, interesting article to boot

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THMRK · 16 Mar 2010 at 12:59

Morgoth said:
Aha, that doesn't surprise me. For a world leading news organisation the BBC website doesn't half overflow with spelling and grammar errors.

Speaking for the Scottish online team, there are less than 10 people working in the online bit for news. One for each region...