Jon Gower, Literary Editor of Nation.Cymru, invited me to contribute to the column ‘Being a Writer in Wales’.
For almost fifty years I have been writing professionally in Wales, but the invitation to contribute to this series made me face the question of what it means to be called – or to call oneself – ‘a writer’.
From time to time, former students from around the world contact me with their reflections on the Masters course in International Journalism which I taught at Cardiff University in the last years of a career as a journalist. Often they tell me that, when starting to write a report, they ask themselves the question which I would pose to them in the School of Journalism: ‘Who is the real “who” of this story?’.
You can read the whole piece here.