DURING a previous life I worked for a few years as a motoring journalist. It was certainly one of the easiest and most over-privileged jobs imaginable.

Once a week at the very least, all the main motoring hacks (plus as many hangers-on and blag merchants who could make it) would be flown to Southern Spain, Italy or the French Riviera, put up in a top class hotel, issued with a brand new car to drive with abandon and generally treated as if the sun shone out of their proverbials. Not bad for a job that essentially boils down to saying “The latest model is a bit bigger, a bit better and a bit more expensive than the one it replaces” in anything from 500 to 1,000 words.

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I’M DELIGHTED to report that top-selling US business title Business Week has again picked up one of our stories, this time about attempts to ‘brand’ the entire Baltic region. Thanks also to our friends at Transitions Online who initially commissioned and ran the story.
To read it on the Business Week website, please click here.

To prove how environmentally friendly Baltic Features is, we even recycled some of the quotes for a Baltic Times piece about the specific experience of Enterprise Estonia, which is undoubtedly leading the field in the region. To read the unexpurgated version of what they had to say, click here.

MANY thanks to Latvia’s TV schedulers for providing a fascinating slice of comparative culture last night. It was the sort of stuff that should be added to every Media Studies, Sociology and Anthropology curriculum currently offered.

On TV1 was the gala concert of the Song Festival - the big one, that everyone talks about making the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. The amazing thing was that it did just that.

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