A new website for media people looking for love has been set up.
It will give people the chance to browse the members, see who is around, flirt and have a laugh - while enjoying a virtual pint, before deciding whether to make friends or take things a step further…
www.mediadates.com aims to bring fascinating and diverse people together, regardless of the medium they work in.
Members will be journalists, photographers, designers, technicians, PRs, media planners, advertising and marketing bods, along with hard-pressed administrative staff. They work in press, radio, film, new media and television, as well as in communications agencies and departments.
Fun, friendship and romance will be on the agenda, as media people’s unusual and demanding lifestyles may prevent them finding people with similar interests or qualities in the real world.
Founder Harriet Cross said: "Many members will probably be freelancers, working at home in isolation, or on demanding short-term contracts, which leave little time for socialising with colleagues.
"They will join a network of friendly, like-minded people. At mediadates.com they have an opportunity to gossip, find out about jobs, make new friends.
"A fair number of our members might (probably recently) be divorced, widowed or separated, and finding the dating scene has changed to a genuinely confusing degree since they were last single.
"mediadates.com will provide an insight into the world of singletons as it is now."
It is free to browse the site until November 1.
Harriet has been a journalist for more than 20 years. She has edited contract magazines, including Weight Watchers Magazine and titles for Barclays, Safeway and Iceland.
She also regularly contributes to the Daily Express.
Dipping in and out of predominantly female workplaces she was struck by the number of "gorgeous single women" searching for their Mr Right.
Co-founder Ros Love worked at the BBC in Portland Place and Tunbridge Wells for 25 years before taking redundancy early in 2006.
She saw how difficult it was for colleagues, working shifts to make or sustain lasting relationships with those unsympathetic to the demanding way the media works.
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