Mike Findlay-Agnew FRSA
@mediamike.bsky.social
CEO - International Network of Street Papers www.insp.ngo - tackling poverty through journalism
Fellow Royal Society of the Arts (RSA)
Life & Career Coach www.risingfox.org
EDI trainer 🌈
Live in Glasgow. Often in London & the rest of the world
Fellow Royal Society of the Arts (RSA)
Life & Career Coach www.risingfox.org
EDI trainer 🌈
Live in Glasgow. Often in London & the rest of the world
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Glasgow charity seeks participants to Change the Narrative on Homelessness
International Network of Street Papers secures funds to launch new journalistic training programme aimed at people who have experienced homelessness and poverty
www.insp.ngo
Scotland, listen up!
@theinsp.bsky.social is looking for people with direct experience of homelessness & poverty to take part in a journalistic training programme.
Taking part will build your skills in storytelling & writing. You will be paid for published content.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
@theinsp.bsky.social is looking for people with direct experience of homelessness & poverty to take part in a journalistic training programme.
Taking part will build your skills in storytelling & writing. You will be paid for published content.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
Not every day your organisation gets mentioned in @theguardian.com !
Good profile for our colleagues in Brazil.
Would love to see @theguardian.com do a feature on the breadth & diversity of street papers worldwide
Good profile for our colleagues in Brazil.
Would love to see @theguardian.com do a feature on the breadth & diversity of street papers worldwide
“It’s about [providing an] income and harm reduction – the harm of silence and loneliness,” says Rosina Duarte, co-founder of Brazilian street paper Boca de Rua, of her work and the international street paper movement in @theguardian.com this week.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
May 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Not every day your organisation gets mentioned in @theguardian.com !
Good profile for our colleagues in Brazil.
Would love to see @theguardian.com do a feature on the breadth & diversity of street papers worldwide
Good profile for our colleagues in Brazil.
Would love to see @theguardian.com do a feature on the breadth & diversity of street papers worldwide
I love print media! Kind of figures with the job that I do. But today, I am celebrating not just the survival but the evolution of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, @theobserveruk.bsky.social
I picked up my copy of the 12,177th edition today and it's under new management.
I picked up my copy of the 12,177th edition today and it's under new management.
April 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I love print media! Kind of figures with the job that I do. But today, I am celebrating not just the survival but the evolution of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, @theobserveruk.bsky.social
I picked up my copy of the 12,177th edition today and it's under new management.
I picked up my copy of the 12,177th edition today and it's under new management.
Lovely to finally say hello to @irvinewelsh.bsky.social last night at his event at Paisley Book Festival.
Irvine has been a long-term supporter of @theinsp.bsky.social & #streetpapers
I first saw him speak in the late 90s in Edinburgh. Great to hear about his new writing, music talents & tastes.
Irvine has been a long-term supporter of @theinsp.bsky.social & #streetpapers
I first saw him speak in the late 90s in Edinburgh. Great to hear about his new writing, music talents & tastes.
April 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Lovely to finally say hello to @irvinewelsh.bsky.social last night at his event at Paisley Book Festival.
Irvine has been a long-term supporter of @theinsp.bsky.social & #streetpapers
I first saw him speak in the late 90s in Edinburgh. Great to hear about his new writing, music talents & tastes.
Irvine has been a long-term supporter of @theinsp.bsky.social & #streetpapers
I first saw him speak in the late 90s in Edinburgh. Great to hear about his new writing, music talents & tastes.
A very busy day at the @theinsp.bsky.social International Network of Street Papers office in Glasgow today!
We had 21 people turn up for our open-lunch, which was the chance for people to find out more about INSP's Changing the Narrative on Homelessness & Poverty Journalism Training Academy.
We had 21 people turn up for our open-lunch, which was the chance for people to find out more about INSP's Changing the Narrative on Homelessness & Poverty Journalism Training Academy.
April 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A very busy day at the @theinsp.bsky.social International Network of Street Papers office in Glasgow today!
We had 21 people turn up for our open-lunch, which was the chance for people to find out more about INSP's Changing the Narrative on Homelessness & Poverty Journalism Training Academy.
We had 21 people turn up for our open-lunch, which was the chance for people to find out more about INSP's Changing the Narrative on Homelessness & Poverty Journalism Training Academy.
Reposted by Mike Findlay-Agnew FRSA
Check it out @mediamike.bsky.social - this is more or less my mantra when it comes to journalism
April 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Check it out @mediamike.bsky.social - this is more or less my mantra when it comes to journalism
Glasgow we are right here!
Spending part of today on the streets of Scotland's biggest city & the home to the @theinsp.bsky.social telling people about our Changing the Narrative Journalism Training Academy.
Spending part of today on the streets of Scotland's biggest city & the home to the @theinsp.bsky.social telling people about our Changing the Narrative Journalism Training Academy.
April 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Glasgow we are right here!
Spending part of today on the streets of Scotland's biggest city & the home to the @theinsp.bsky.social telling people about our Changing the Narrative Journalism Training Academy.
Spending part of today on the streets of Scotland's biggest city & the home to the @theinsp.bsky.social telling people about our Changing the Narrative Journalism Training Academy.
I have spent the last couple of days in gloriously sunny Amsterdam 🌞
This morning, I managed to visit the special Homeless in the City exhibition at the @amsterdammuseum.bsky.social. Great to see local street paper "Z!" represented in this.
This morning, I managed to visit the special Homeless in the City exhibition at the @amsterdammuseum.bsky.social. Great to see local street paper "Z!" represented in this.
April 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I have spent the last couple of days in gloriously sunny Amsterdam 🌞
This morning, I managed to visit the special Homeless in the City exhibition at the @amsterdammuseum.bsky.social. Great to see local street paper "Z!" represented in this.
This morning, I managed to visit the special Homeless in the City exhibition at the @amsterdammuseum.bsky.social. Great to see local street paper "Z!" represented in this.
It's the final night of @alisonmoyet.bsky.social for us tonight! Seeing her at #Paradiso #Amsterdam after seeing her in Dublin & Glasgow. We have travelled from Scotland especially.
What stamina to keep going for such an epic tour!
We just cannot get enough of her.
What stamina to keep going for such an epic tour!
We just cannot get enough of her.
April 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It's the final night of @alisonmoyet.bsky.social for us tonight! Seeing her at #Paradiso #Amsterdam after seeing her in Dublin & Glasgow. We have travelled from Scotland especially.
What stamina to keep going for such an epic tour!
We just cannot get enough of her.
What stamina to keep going for such an epic tour!
We just cannot get enough of her.
Productive day with @marzid.bsky.social at the wonderful The Social Hub in Glasgow.
No we are not in the next production of The Steamie, that would be fun though!
No we are not in the next production of The Steamie, that would be fun though!
April 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Productive day with @marzid.bsky.social at the wonderful The Social Hub in Glasgow.
No we are not in the next production of The Steamie, that would be fun though!
No we are not in the next production of The Steamie, that would be fun though!
How my taxi journey in Glasgow confirmed my thinking about shifting the narrative on poverty.
Read about it in The Herald:
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Read about it in The Herald:
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Shifting Scotland’s narrative on homelessness and poverty
Scotland’s well-known compassion isn’t necessarily as deeply embedded as the more socially conscious of us might like to think
www.heraldscotland.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
How my taxi journey in Glasgow confirmed my thinking about shifting the narrative on poverty.
Read about it in The Herald:
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Read about it in The Herald:
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Reposted by Mike Findlay-Agnew FRSA
Who says you can't talk guff & be professional in equal measure 😉
Great to have you on board @marzid.bsky.social for this exciting project. Let's do this!
Great to have you on board @marzid.bsky.social for this exciting project. Let's do this!
So bloody pleased to be working with old mate @mediamike.bsky.social again. Actually doing something AMAZING in between gales of laughter and talking guff...
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
Glasgow charity seeks participants to Change the Narrative on Homelessness
International Network of Street Papers secures funds to launch new journalistic training programme aimed at people who have experienced homelessness and poverty
www.insp.ngo
March 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Who says you can't talk guff & be professional in equal measure 😉
Great to have you on board @marzid.bsky.social for this exciting project. Let's do this!
Great to have you on board @marzid.bsky.social for this exciting project. Let's do this!
The hunt is now on for our first 10 participants to take part in this unique journalistic training programme. I am starting interviews this week:
tfn.scot/news/budding...
tfn.scot/news/budding...
Budding journalists invited to change the narrative on poverty - TFN
Exciting opportunity offered by leading organisation
tfn.scot
March 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The hunt is now on for our first 10 participants to take part in this unique journalistic training programme. I am starting interviews this week:
tfn.scot/news/budding...
tfn.scot/news/budding...
A rather brilliant & bizarre day yesterday spent at #TateModern at the #LeighBowrey exhibition.
Loved the eccentricities of it all, & the connections between fashion, club culture, deviation & the fight for justice. Also memory trip watching BBC's 'The Clothes Show' again.
Loved the eccentricities of it all, & the connections between fashion, club culture, deviation & the fight for justice. Also memory trip watching BBC's 'The Clothes Show' again.
March 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A rather brilliant & bizarre day yesterday spent at #TateModern at the #LeighBowrey exhibition.
Loved the eccentricities of it all, & the connections between fashion, club culture, deviation & the fight for justice. Also memory trip watching BBC's 'The Clothes Show' again.
Loved the eccentricities of it all, & the connections between fashion, club culture, deviation & the fight for justice. Also memory trip watching BBC's 'The Clothes Show' again.
Reposted by Mike Findlay-Agnew FRSA
INSP has opened applications for the Changing the Narrative project-a bold new initiative that will provide professional journalism training to ten Glasgow-based participants who have experienced homelessness or poverty!
Details can be found below.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
Details can be found below.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
March 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
INSP has opened applications for the Changing the Narrative project-a bold new initiative that will provide professional journalism training to ten Glasgow-based participants who have experienced homelessness or poverty!
Details can be found below.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
Details can be found below.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
Rather delighted with this vinyl purchase from Second Line Records in #Glasgow today.
Always loved #ChetBaker ever since The Talented Mr Ripley movie in the 1990s featured it 🙌
Always loved #ChetBaker ever since The Talented Mr Ripley movie in the 1990s featured it 🙌
March 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Rather delighted with this vinyl purchase from Second Line Records in #Glasgow today.
Always loved #ChetBaker ever since The Talented Mr Ripley movie in the 1990s featured it 🙌
Always loved #ChetBaker ever since The Talented Mr Ripley movie in the 1990s featured it 🙌
Scotland, listen up!
@theinsp.bsky.social is looking for people with direct experience of homelessness & poverty to take part in a journalistic training programme.
Taking part will build your skills in storytelling & writing. You will be paid for published content.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
@theinsp.bsky.social is looking for people with direct experience of homelessness & poverty to take part in a journalistic training programme.
Taking part will build your skills in storytelling & writing. You will be paid for published content.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
Glasgow charity seeks participants to Change the Narrative on Homelessness
International Network of Street Papers secures funds to launch new journalistic training programme aimed at people who have experienced homelessness and poverty
www.insp.ngo
March 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Scotland, listen up!
@theinsp.bsky.social is looking for people with direct experience of homelessness & poverty to take part in a journalistic training programme.
Taking part will build your skills in storytelling & writing. You will be paid for published content.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
@theinsp.bsky.social is looking for people with direct experience of homelessness & poverty to take part in a journalistic training programme.
Taking part will build your skills in storytelling & writing. You will be paid for published content.
www.insp.ngo/articles/new...
Last night’s reading was this concise report from @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social ‘Making the case for prevention: Public perceptions of homelessness’.
Data gathered by Ipsos UK asking British citizens what they think about homelessness, and how sentiments have changed over the years.
Data gathered by Ipsos UK asking British citizens what they think about homelessness, and how sentiments have changed over the years.
February 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Last night’s reading was this concise report from @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social ‘Making the case for prevention: Public perceptions of homelessness’.
Data gathered by Ipsos UK asking British citizens what they think about homelessness, and how sentiments have changed over the years.
Data gathered by Ipsos UK asking British citizens what they think about homelessness, and how sentiments have changed over the years.
Reposted by Mike Findlay-Agnew FRSA
Hear Ruth's story from Big Issue Australia, and the stories of other vendors, on our website below.
www.insp.ngo/articles/ven...
www.insp.ngo/articles/ven...
Meet Ruth, The Big Issue Australia vendor in Adelaide
“You will meet a lady who sells The Big Issue. At first, you will think this is a stupid idea, standing out there trying to sell the magazine. But you give it a go, and to tell you the truth, it will ...
www.insp.ngo
February 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hear Ruth's story from Big Issue Australia, and the stories of other vendors, on our website below.
www.insp.ngo/articles/ven...
www.insp.ngo/articles/ven...
