Award-shortlisted freelance journalist
Hi, I'm Jeremy. Welcome to my journalism portfolio. Here you'll find examples of my work and the services I offer.
About me
NCTJ qualified (National Council for the Training of Journalists), I've worked as a chief reporter and news editor on regional newspapers, covering stories ranging from election campaigns, council debts and nurses' strikes to visiting the Falkland Islands with the Royal Engineers.
I cover cricket and other sports for regional, national and international titles. As well as regular match reports, news stories, interviews and retrospectives, I write in-depth features examining key issues facing sport.
My other passions are music, film, television and theatre. I contribute to a number of magazines and newspapers, interviewing new and established artists and looking back over key moments in musical history. Anything involving the Beatles will always spark my interest.
With a strong understanding of a good story and plenty of curiosity, I enjoy covering a wide range of other stories. I can write short, snappy news copy as well as in-depth features.
Do you need help with public relations? I've delivered press office and crisis response services for high-profile public sector organisations. Roles also included editing and writing for corporate in-house and business-to-business magazines.
All good communications though, starts with a good plan. I'm passionate about helping organisations improve the way they engage with their customers, media and stakeholders to better support their objectives.
In the end, what I do comes back to telling compelling stories. If I can help, please get in touch.
Featured Articles
Explore a featured selection of my recent work below.
Lewis Gregory promotes positivity in Somerset's search for the missing piece of the puzzle
In the second part of the penultimate county focus feature on Somerset, JEREMY BLACKMORE speaks to the newly installed club captain on County Championship silverware, Shoaib Bashir and feeding off last season's Blast success.
Rhythm, Playfulness: William Doyle On 'Springs Eternal' - Stereoboard
It was an experience that proved freeing for a self-professed perfectionist and if ‘Great Spans…’ was minimalist by necessity, its successor is ambitious in scope and finds him at his most confident and assured, delivering the strongest vocal performances of his career.
Celestial Candyfloss and French Electricity: Gruff Rhys Takes Another Leap Into The Unknown
Return of the Oxygenius (PDF)
The joy of revolution - PDF
Kosmische dancers: the trancelike tales of Tangerine Dream
Red Hot Rew
Three months on as the backbone of his county’s batting and a thousand runs to his name, he is still finding things hard to process. “I never thought I’d be sitting here as leading run scorer in Division One,” he exclaims. “Not a chance. It’s so weird!”
His emergence has had purists purring and statisticians rewriting the record books. But while his sheer weight of runs has garnered headlines, it is how he’s accumulated them which has earned him admirers and seen him widely tipped as a future England candidate.
Like many left-handers Rew, 19, makes batting look effortless, driving exquisitely, showing clinical precision in the way he times and places the ball. But there’s a solid defence too and an ability to play off front or back foot.
More than that is what his coach Jason Kerr calls his superpower: an ability to stay in the moment, keep things simple and play each ball on its merits. ‘Mature beyond his years’ is a phrase you hear most when you speak to those who know Rew best, although a cheeky, boyish grin quickly gives away his age.
Revolution in the second city
Blackmore asks Neil Smith, Tim Munton, Andy Moles and Paul Smith about
Warwickshire’s unparalleled cross-format domination in the mid-1990s
Masterminded by innovators Bob Woolmer and Dermot Reeve, Warwickshire dominated county cricket in the mid-1990s, writing themselves into the history books with an unprecedented treble in 1994 and following it with a double in 1995.
A competitive Bears squad were boosted by two of the greatest overseas stars. Brian Lara amassed over 2,000 runs in their 1994 Championship success including a world-record 501 not out – not to mention six centuries in seven innings. Allan Donald spearheaded the attack in 1995 with 88 Championship wickets at just 15.48.
Vive Le Style Council! (PDF)
reinvent himself.
Hailed today as a musical chameleon never afraid to leave his comfort zone, Weller had shown the first signs of his need to move on by splitting the Jam at the height of their fame. If that distressed fans of the Mod icon, even more shocking was what was to come as he emerged with a new band – the Style Council – a new sound and a new look.
Nearly four decades on, we can see how radical a change it was – and how Weller astutely turned his focus from strife-torn, divided Britain to a new optimism defined by Europe. Out went the Union Jack iconography and guitar-driven songs influenced by the Beatles, Kinks and Small Faces. In came a continental approach to clothes, artwork and music, drawing inspiration from La Nouvelle Vague, modern jazz and composers like Ravel and Debussy as well as American gospel and soul.
Forming the Style Council with keyboardist Mick Talbot, the pair bonded over a love of Michel Legrand soundtracks, French fashion and Rive Gauche cafe culture, far from the suburban streets of Woking and south London where the pair had grown up.