Linda Harrison looks at the only city in a county famed for its landscape, Poldark and a good serving of celebrity chefs
on the scene,” says Emily. “The photos went around the world. I’ve been out to Afghanistan and Norway photographing the Marines and the Army but here in Cornwall it was a different kind of drama. It’s one of the most dramatic things that’s ever happened in Cornwall in my lifetime.” Most of the media in Cornwall is based in historical Truro in mid-Cornwall, with its stunning cathedral and Georgian architecture. It’s the county’s only city and those who live and work there say it has quite a different feel to other UK cities. “Truro’s a lovely city, although it’s really a large market town that’s got a posh cathedral attached to it,” says Graham Smith, a reporter for The Cornish Guardian.
The main media employer in Truro is Local World, which has weekly newspapers The Cornish Guardian, The Cornishman and The West Briton.
Graham, former political and current affairs editor at ITV South West, covers the Wadebridge t
to Padstow area for The Cornish Guardian. He s
beaches and the moors.
says the best thing about living in Cornwall is t
the lifestyle – the big open sky, the sea, miles of b
“The scenery you see in Poldark on Sunday evenings is real,” he says. “Most people don’t d
The BBC also has an office in Truro, producing BBC Radio Cornwall as well as
C stories.
“On 16th August 2004 I found myself photographing the Boscastle floods and I was the first professional photographer
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“Cornwall is like a magnet; you try other places to live, try the adventures of living in the big city or traveling the world but it pulls you right back in,” says Emily Whitfield-Wicks, a freelance news and editorial photographer.
“Working as a news and editorial photographer in Cornwall
can have its limitations – you are right down on the tip of England and it’s a long way to everywhere else. There are some dramas you won’t see; for instance, you are very unlikely to get a major riot, so there are certain big news stories I won’t get here.” However, Cornwall has not been without its big news
reports for BBC Spotlight, the regional TV news programme for the South West of England. Elsewhere in Cornwall, broadcasters include commercial radio station Pirate FM and community radio Source FM. There’s also the Voice series of weekly newspapers, with editions including St Austell Voice and Newquay Voice. Packet Newspapers is in Falmouth and is owned by Newsquest, while Falmouth also has a well-respected media studies centre. The Sunday Independent is a sports-led, long-established regional Sunday based in the market town of Liskeard. Meanwhile, Tindle Newspapers has an office in Launceston, north Cornwall, publishing long-established titles including the Cornish & Devon Post and The Cornish Times. Stuart Fraser, Sunday Independent assistant editor, has
worked in Cornwall for more than 30 years. He says: “Although Cornwall has changed in many ways, the media is still dominated by old established names – the BBC, Western Morning News, Radio Cornwall and some very long- established weeklies.
dress like that any more of course – although some do still talk like that.”
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