Friday lunchtime saw me at a Met Club event in Leeds, where the guest speaker was David Parkin, editor of thebusinessdesk.com who gave a fantastic run through of his journalism career highs the pinnacle of which was, perhaps, interviewing Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Not that I’m suggesting it’s all been downhill since then; it plainly hasn’t, but more of that later.)

It wasn’t “look how great I am, I’ve met Arnie” though. Journalism is about telling a story, and doing it well, and getting to meet Arnie – essentially as Governor of California, as opposed to the movie star – meant that David had a really good tale. Read the rest of this entry »