Ask The Industry Podcast

Tom Walker is better known as Jonathan Pie (@JonathanPieNews) a satirical news reporter character who is an idealist at heart but can't stand the way his job often pans out. In little over a year Tom has grown a dedicated and engaged social media audience of people who believe in Pie's words but also those who do not. I got him on the podcast to talk about -  How he came up with the idea, how it has developed and if he thinks it would have worked 6 or 12 months ago.How he dealt with getting “shit” from his audience who felt he was wrong for taking sponsorship from Russia Today TVHow he has to watch the ways he makes money from Pie because of the nature of the character.The nature of offence and satire.How he remains topical when the face of politics changes so fast. How close is Tom to the character of Pie?AND MORE!This podcast would be useful to anyone interested in writing satire or character comedy as well as people trying to build their own social media audience.You can find Jonat