Covering Liverpool Episode 1: Paul Gorst talks journalism, social media scrutiny and spring rolls with Robbie Fowler

Welcome to the Covering Liverpool: Tales From The Press Box podcast.

A bit different, this, as rather than delve into current (Liverpool) affairs and debate transfers, tactics, team selections and the like, I wanted to bring you a little closer to the people whose job it is to tell you about all of those things. 

In short, I wanted to speak to people who, like me, cover the Reds for a living.

My first guest is someone I know well, and who holds one of the most prestigious and important roles - for me, anyway! - in football media. He’s the Liverpool FC Correspondent for the Liverpool ECHO, and one of the calmest and most level-headed reporters about. It is, of course, Paul Gorst.

So, in Episode One of the Covering Liverpool, Gorsty talks about his journalism journey, which started with a Sunday morning epiphany at the age of 13 and which has since taken him around the world with the Reds. 

He talks about those early days at the ECHO, chained to his desk and the endless cycle of the 12-8 shift, and about those first, tentative steps in the Anfield press box. I can relate to those stories, believe me!

We discuss social media scrutiny, the impossible job of covering the transfer window, that endless work/life balance quest, and of the huge difference it makes when Liverpool are actually good.

I found it to be a fascinating insight from one of life’s good guys, and I hope you will enjoy the chat as much as I did. Please let me know your thoughts - this is very much a work in progress - and if you have any suggestions regarding guests you’d like to see in the future, then I’d love to hear them too.

And hey, if audio podcasts are not your thing, then don’t worry. The full episode can be watched on the Covering Liverpool YouTube page. If you haven’t subscribed to that yet, then what have you been doing?! Get it sorted ;) 

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