@emmajourno.bsky.social
Freelance journalist writing about medicine/health/biosciences. Bylines in BMJ, Pulse, Pharmaceutical Journal, Sunday Times, Lancet, BBC and more. Co-founder Freelancing for Journalists. Co-author of Ultra Women. Often found running up Sheffield hills.
Should health journalists be on TikTok? A really interesting read for the MJA website by our member @rosietaylorjourno.bsky.social Taylor who describes her own journey from hiding away from the camera to now having posts viewed over a million times: mjauk.org/2026/03/11/s...
I'm just the way I am innit
This is what I tell the guy who does my sports massage as he's making hmmm noises because he's found another part of my body coiled like the tightest of tight springs.... He claims that some flexibility in my spine would be useful
I will never understand people who do think through consequences of actions even for a second. Apropos of nothing in particular of course...
We have a great webinar coming up this month with award winning freelancer @rosietaylorjourno.bsky.social. She will be sharing tips and advice on how being active on social media can benefit your journalism. Grab your ticket on the link below.
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The MJA is concerned about reports that journalists are being barred from medical conferences after an update to the ABPI code on public access to info about drugs now including journalists. Please let us know at admin@mjauk.org if you have been impacted by this.
👀 Did you post this to my office? Written with pink/purple ink? I'd really like to talk to you if so, I can protect your identity but what you sent was really important but not enough on its own. Get in touch via DM email etc... Pls RT.
Donna Ockenden has been named as chair of an investigation into maternity services in Leeds, following a campaign by families: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yep annoying isn't it. But woe betide if you try to go around them. The heartsink when a contact says happy to speak just let me run it past the press office
It is really disheartening. I have SO many other things to be doing! But I am also only an AL so I don't have to do this and easier for me to walk away.
Journalism/PR and sports journalism students. Some of them will also be holding down jobs as well as Uni or having to travel in quite a distance and this was an addition to the timetable. But still...
This week was 3.... At one point thought it would be just 1 and that is the worst case scenario for all involved...
Great to see headlines from our annual lecture today in the BBC, Guardian and Telegraph as well as Healthcare Leader and The Pharmacist. For our write-up of the night see below.
Did you know being a member of the MJA means you get a log in and free access to Wiley’s Online Library of more than 1,600 journals, 200 reference works and 21,000 books? Just log in on our website and visit this page to get the log in details: mjauk.org/2026/03/05/n...
No music this evening.
Just finished 'Ultra Women' – this excellent book by
@lilycanter.bsky.social
and @emmajourno.bsky.social
I can't recommend this book enough to anyone who is into ultra running/endurance or sports in general.
An important, eye-opening and inspiring book.
#UltraRunning
Niece visiting for weekend so brought with daughter to Meadowhall. They’ve left me to do their own thing (I’m good enough to carry coats). So far have bought a pyrex measuring jug. Sure this is unrelated to them not hanging out with me…
Chris Whitty’s ‘tour de force’ at MJA Annual Lecture mjauk.org/2026/03/06/c...
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
This is why we need big newsrooms with lots of reporters who can dig into things. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...
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Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"
I once had a convo with nursery about why 3yo kept shouting arsehole. Turns out he was saying Paw Patrol…
My partner who grew up in Cumbria tells me this all the time. I will not accept it. No part of Yorkshire can be in the midlands end of.
Thank God for some actual proper reporting on this. Had seen a thing on FB and had no idea what people were on about. Parents were really getting their knickers in a knot about it though...
@lilycanter.bsky.social and I on the @runnersworld.bsky.social podcast this week talking all things Ultra, girls in sport and sexism in sports publishing open.spotify.com/episode/1kaz...
The day this was published I had a letter from my MP about a meeting to discuss Yorkshire Water, burst pipes and huge bonuses… pretty apt www.bmj.com/content/392/...
The only way to contain measles - and prevent deaths - is vaccination for almost everyone. And we do not seem to be getting on top of it.... As one public health expert told me "it is ferociously infectious". www.doctors.net.uk/news/contain...
This month we have a fantastic webinar with award-winning journalist @rosietaylorjourno.bsky.social on Social Media for Reluctant Journalists. She'll be sharing her top tips and practical tools on how to make content work for you www.tickettailor.com/events/freelancingforjournalists/2058020