Finished Feature

My feature is now complete and I’m really happy with it. I’ve stuck to my style model from The Guardian but also made it unique and cohesive to my topic. The images I have used are relevant and work well within the piece, including the two images of my interviewees so the reader can understand […]

Online Article

I’ve now published my finished online feature on Buzz. My interview with Clare Shepard is the basis of it and I’ve included images and amended my SEO. You can check it out here

Sarah Cardwell Interview

I got in contact with Sarah through Twitter after seeing her tweet her blog post about her experience with early menopause and endometriosis. She was happy to chat with me and answer a few questions, the interview is below: What’s your story with the early menopause? I had suffered with endometriosis all my life. It […]

Target Publication Update

As I’m reaching the end of my project, I’ve gained a deeper understanding of the importance and the of the topic and what kind of publication it would be best suited to. It’s for this reason that I’m going to change my target publication from The Observer to The Guardian, specifically the lifestyle section. The […]

Use of Twitter

Throughout creating my project, I relied heavily on Twitter to find suitable interviewees for my project. I searched ‘early menopause’ and managed to find a few ladies who had tweeted about it and contacted them via Twitter direct message. Out of my interviewees and the ladies that I spoke to, I found Angie and Clare […]

Kate Mills Interview

I know Kate personally so I knew she would be a perfect interviewee for the radio segment of my project. As previously mentioned, I wanted to discuss HRT in this segment and so along with the clip from the BBC documentary, I felt someone in the medical field would be the ideal interviewee to provide […]

‘The Truth About The Menopause’ Documentary

Whilst doing my project I saw that BBC was going to release a documentary discussing the menopause. I planned to watch the documentary and if there was any interesting details that linked to any points I made in the other elements of my project, I would take a clip and add it to my radio […]

Clare Shepherd Interview

I got in contact with Clare Shepherd whilst searching Twitter for the key words ‘early menopause’. Upon finding her Twitter and ultimately her website, I discovered that Clare not only experienced a premature menopause herself, but actually started up a programme with plans to help women who may be suffering through their menopause. She was […]

Gary Hussey Interview

For the filmed element of my project, I wanted to talk to some kind of professional to discuss treatments for menopausal symptoms – preferably non-conventional. I already knew that acupuncture was used by some women for their symptoms but judging by my previous quiz results, I don’t think many other people knew this was a […]

Jo Behari Interview

The next lady I got in contact with was Jo Behari. I found Jo whilst looking through online articles about the early menopause, to which I came across GoodToKnow. You can access the article here. In Jo’s story, she shared that she went through a premature menopause aged just 37. I found Jo’s website and […]