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title: "My week in media meme"
url: https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2008/01/06/my-week-in-media-meme/
description: "Consultant and fractional COO for scale-up businesses. I help founders, leaders and investors in scaling businesses create sustainably high performing organisations."
published: 2008-01-06T21:04:53+00:00
modified: 2026-04-11T16:25:11+00:00
author: Simon Wakeman
---
# My week in media meme

## My week in media meme

It’s thanks to [Stephen Waddington’s](http://www.rainierpr.co.uk/blog/) [meme tagging](http://www.rainierpr.co.uk/blog/2008/01/meme-my-week-in-media.html) that I’m finally getting around to my first proper post of 2008. A happy new year to you all!

The idea behind this [meme](http://t4w.blogs.com/spinningaround/2007/12/my-week-in-medi.html) is to reveal your media consumption habits for a week, and so far it’s been interesting to see what people are reading/watching/listening to beyond the usual PR-related media that we have in common.

The past seven days haven’t been particularly typical for me. A bank holiday and spending most evenings writing an assignment for my [CIPR Diploma](http://www.cipr.co.uk/qualifications/onlinediploma/main.htm) have meant my media has been a bit different to normal.

**What I’ve read**

-   [The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk) as daily newspaper of choice when time allows (less often than I’d like).
-   [Medway Messenger](http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/), [Kent on Sunday](http://www.kentnews.co.uk/) and [Medway News/Standard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medway_News) for keeping an eye on council coverage.
-   [Whitstable Gazette](http://www.mediauk.com/newspapers/41454/whitstable-gazette) for knowing what’s going on around home.
-   Catching up with a backlog of trade publications, including [PR Week](http://www.prweek.com/uk/), [Marketing](http://www.brandrepublic.com/marketing/%20), [Marketing Week](http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/) and [New Media Age](http://www.nma.co.uk/%20).
-   [Exploring Public Relations](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exploring-Public-Relations-Ralph-Tench/dp/0273688898) by Tench & Yeomans and a handful of other PR textbooks.
-   A few pages of [Not Quite World’s End](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Quite-Worlds-End-Travellers/dp/1405050004) by John Simpson that I got for Christmas.

**What I’ve listened to**

-   [BBC Radio Five Live](http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/) on the way to and from work.
-   [Radio 4](http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/) on Wednesday morning as the council’s [decision](http://www.medway.gov.uk/news/newsmain/newspage?item=72060) to progress a planning application for a new coal-fired power station was getting coverage.
-   [Invicta FM](http://www.invictafm.co.uk/) while doing the washing-up and generally tidying.
-   Some early 90’s happy house mix tapes on my MP3 player while out running.

**What I’ve watched**

Not a lot. In fact I can’t think I’ve watched any TV in the last week except the odd bit of [CBBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/) when the boys were watching.

**What I’ve surfed**

A lot – too many to list. As well as [300ish RSS feeds](https://www.simonwakeman.com/resources/blogroll/) that I’m finally caught up with, I seem to surf the internet day in day out whether on the PC or on my mobile. Sites I seem to frequent most often are news websites, PR academic websites, blogs and running/cycling sites.

So that’s my last week in media. Time to pass the baton onto [Liam Fitzpatrick](http://www.blackbeltdojo.co.uk/), [Andy Wake](http://www.eventualities.blog.co.uk/), [Richard Bailey](http://prstudies.typepad.com/) and [Simon Collister](http://simoncollister.typepad.com/). Over to you then guys…