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Emily is an English Literature graduate who has interned at number of publications at Bauer media including, Heat, Closer and More! magazine. Currently working as an editorial assistant for a publishing company in London, she is keen to continue writing for Wannabe Hacks providing advice for aspiring journalists as well as sparking controversial debates.
Posts by Emily Handford
12. June, 2012
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Why I’m leaving Wannabe Hacks
As you may have noticed I haven’t been writing much for Hacks recently. I have been struggling with demands of juggling working life and producing consistent work for the site. So I have come to the difficult decision to leave my role with Wannabe
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Nicole Froio – How I fell out of love with student media
My student media career was relatively long. I started as a very keen first year writer for Forge Press and became news editor for my second year which kept me busy most hours of the day and pretty much killed
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George Berridge – Things they don’t tell you when you’re training to be a journalist
It’s Sunday night. 3:12AM. Your head is full of stories, problems, facts and figures. Then, as you twist restlessly in bed, your body in the lurching throes of caffeine-induced shakes, it hits you like a sledgehammer. That terrible question you’ve
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The Express and Star need to compete online
Robert Grant is a 22-year-old wannabe from Surrey. He is a final year undergraduate at Bristol University studying Politics and French. During his time at Bristol he has contributed to Epigram, the university paper, and wrote a blog about his year
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How to get your covering letter noticed…for the right reasons.
So we’ve had plenty of advice on how to write the perfect CV here at Wannabe Hacks, but what about the other daunting task of writing a covering letter? Perhaps just as important as a C.V, it is what completes
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Caroline Mortimer: How to ‘make’ the news
Caroline is a final year undergraduate at the University of Birmingham and part-time freelance journalist. She has written for various (mainly online) newspapers and magazines such as the Huffington Post, Redbrick and the Guardian. All of her work can be found
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The Trinity Mirror job cuts: Death of the media or a transitional change?
Job cuts in the media seem to be rife at the moment. With Trinity Mirror cutting more than 75 editorial jobs as well as rumours that The Guardian are set to lose more staff, times are tough. Death of print
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Why campus reporters should ‘Like’ the Facebook ticker
We’re going Facebook crazy at the moment. Yesterday The Entreprenuer argued journalists were a bit late to get to grips with how to use Facebook. This morning The Postgrad said that Facebook could be more useful than Twitter and now
2. February, 2012
Advice, Comment, Getting started, How to guides, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Work experience and interning
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What I’ve learnt from my job so far…
So nearly three months into my job and what have I learnt so far? Was it everything I expected? Kind of and more, so here are a few handy tips to help first jobbers, aspiring editorial assistants and wannabe journo’s get
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Is forcing young graduates to work for free the right way to solve the unemployment crisis?
You couldn’t have missed the story of Caitlin Reilly’s experience of the current government work scheme in the news recently, where she was forced to work for free at Pound Land. Okay, so it was only for two weeks, hardly