THE DIY NEWSROOM™

Your award-winning communications handbook

Finally, someone puts method to the madness of communicating today.
Is your message getting lost in the cacophony of communications?  Would you like to be better recognised for the good work you do, and to do that within existing resources? 
The DIY Newsroom, is an award-winning textbook - a must-have playbook - for setting up a world-class communications team.
  • Discover Stuart Howie's 5-step SMART Way™.
  • Master your media without blowing the budget.
  • Learn how to craft, deliver and sustain superb communications.
  • Let social media work for you, not consumer you.
  • Stand out from the pack in your industry.

THE DY NEWSROOM™: CREATING COMPELLING COMMUNICATIONS

How COVID's helped us craft DIY comms

COVID has made us better communicators.  We're using new tools and going direct to our audiences.

Timeless essentials of ethos, pathos, logos

Aristotle mastered the art of making a heartfelt connection with his audiences with a simple three-way technique.

In government,
we trust - really 

The data is in - Australians have never trusted government more. Yes, I'm serious, and let me explain.

THE DIY NEWSROOM™: ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stuart Howie is a Canberra-based communication professional who puts a new spin on how to make a heartfelt connection with audiences. 
After a distinguished career as a journalist, editor and executive, Stuart left big media to set up a media consultancy.
Today, he is known as a communications entrepreneur who helps government and corporates discover, shape and tell their story for maximum recognition.
His quality hardback The DIY Newsroom has attracted international attention as a seminal work on how to win in today's Attention Economy.

THE DIY NEWSROOM™: QUOTABLE

Never before have we had so many ways to communicate. But never has it been so complex. We have turned communications into a field of study, as a science and a high art, and elevated it to an industry. ​But still, we are overwhelmed, confused and frustrated. However, there is a better way to simple, strategic and sustainable communications. The SMART Way.

​    - STUART HOWIE, writing in The DIY Newsroom

THE DIY NEWSROOM™: WHAT OTHERS SAY

The DIY Newsroom arrived today. I started reading it when I got home and couldn’t put it down until I finished it. Such a great read. Simple, elegant and immensely practical. The DIY Newsroom is about to be put to good use as I rebuild my new ‘newsroom’ ... I mean marketing team!
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​- Dean Gould, Chief Marketing Officer, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia
Ready to unlock your content superpowers? Stuart articulates the skills that every storyteller needs today and the blueprint for managers to build the decentralised newsroom of tomorrow.  
- Yusuf Omar, co-founder Hashtag Our Story, and Prince of Mojo (mobile journalism)