Alan Geere

Don’t know your art from your elbow? Never fear, there are magazines to help. Alan Geere heads along to the newsstand.

Lockdown life made getting hold of newspapers and magazines difficult, so a good opportunity to examine the online news and current affairs output. Alan Geere logged on for his daily fix.

Stuck indoors, there was no better time to think about being in the country. Of course, there are magazines to hold your hand every inch of the way as Alan Geere has been finding out.

Bicycles might have been around for 200 years but they are still in fashion for exercise, transport and fun. Alan Geere takes a tour round the cycling magazines on offer.

People are watching more telly than ever during lockdown. Alan Geere finds plenty of TV magazines to keep viewers company on the sofa.

We’ve all spent plenty of time inside our houses over the past year, so perhaps it’s time to look again at the ‘interiors’. There’s plenty of help on the newsstand, as Alan Geere finds out.

Forgotten how to dress up to go out? Never fear, the fashion magazines are out there to help you. Alan Geere braves the catwalk.

Millions of people in the UK watch golf, play golf and spend their money on equipment, tuition and travel. There are publications devoted to all aspects of the sport, as Alan Geere finds out.

Classical music has been around for ever. And it’s not going anywhere if these magazines have anything to do with it, as Alan Geere finds out.

Problems with foreign travel and increased pressure on spending money mean it looks like staycations are, well, here to stay. Caravans and camping are a home away from home and, as Alan Geere finds out, magazines have every angle covered.

Magazine lovers from the Look and Learn generation (1962-82) will recognise these titles, tackling serious topics with the approachability to engage those sought-after teen and tween readers. Alan Geere steps back, and forward, in time…

Read all about it! It appears the appetite for books and culture is undiminished by world turmoil and strife. Alan Geere explores the world of literary magazine publishing.

Community news, hyperlocal, social enterprise – call it what you will, the non-traditional route to independent publishing is a thriving sector for journalism as Alan Geere finds out.

Alan Geere takes on the might of artificial intelligence in the race to write the perfect piece for InPublishing.

Plenty have tried, but few have succeeded in cracking the local magazine market. Alan Geere looks at the success of Round & About, now celebrating 30 years of publication.

Under one roof at the Regional Press Awards were 250 of the great and the good, the has-beens (sorry, judges) and the will-bes. So, what better place to take the temperature of the industry? Alan Geere was there with his thermometer of news…

Now, now, settle down at the back, no tittering, please. In this always-on media age, Slow Journalism really is a thing, as Alan Geere reports in this quick read.

Should journalism concentrate on ‘telling it how it is’ or is there a wider responsibility to offer hope and optimism to a jaded readership? Alan Geere looks at whether constructive journalism could offer some answers.

While the big guns of the regional press study the gloomy portents about ‘news aversion’ and ‘platform resets’, the independent sector of smaller publishers are still queuing up to have a go, as Alan Geere reports.

What happens when you put Britain’s brightest and best young journalists all together in one room? Alan Geere went along to the NCTJ Awards for Excellence in Manchester to find out.