
Head of Writing & Presenter
A former newspaper editor who took on corporate communications roles in football and the arts, Damon’s now on a restless quest to preserve and promote the power of authentic stories in a world of artificial interference.
Hilary Burton and Damon Parkin began their working lives as local newspaper reporters. Their careers as writers blossomed as they moved, individually, to Smash Hits and a Premier League football club, regional theatre and into corporate comms. They discussed the decline in local media, whether social media is a valid substitute, and if local means anything any more.