future events

Schmooze & Booze is a regular networking event for young journalists and other media workers, started by , a 23-year-old sub-editor who wondered how it was that all middle-aged journalists knew each other. So she created Schmooze & Booze: the first was held in August 2006 at the Commercial Tavern in the East End, the second in the Angelic pub in Islington in October, and the third at the Southwark Rooms in November.

The events now attract more than 200 people, from all kinds of media and media-related jobs. We hope they provide a relaxed setting in which to make interesting and useful contacts, without the awkward silences and enforced jolliness of more formal networking.

Email with your name and job title to get on the mailing list to hear about future Schmoozes.

Most of our events are open to all, although they are targeted at youngish media types, who are starting out in the industry - and, of course, anyone in a position to employ them. Every few months, we will be following the precedent set by our April 2007 event, News and Booze, and hosting an evening just for journalists.

Our last two events were in The Distillers at Smithfield, and Akbar in Soho. Pictures of the evenings, and of previous Schmoozes, can be found on our gallery page.

Next Event

Our next S&B will be held on Monday, March 15 from 6.30pm at Kettners in Soho. It's a joint event in collaboration with Cath Quinn, author of freelance journalists' guide No Contacts? No Problem! and sponsored by Response Source. Email schmoozeandbooze@googlemail.com for mailing list updates.

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One final note: We've had a problem recently with people RSVPing and then not turning up. This makes Helen sad because she has to turn away scores of would-be attendees when the list fills up. So if you say you're going to come and discover you can't make it, please give her 24 hours' notice so your place can go to someone else. Serial offenders will be given lower priority for attendance at future events - or even removed from the mailing list if Helen gets really cross.

P.S. Do check out our sponsors at Press Gazette plus the excellent Champagne Socialist, Stirred Up and Pen Pusher magazines.