Profile: Jonathan Frost
- Name Jonathan Frost
- Location York
- Twitter: @Frost_J
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- Email: jonathan@wannabehacks.co.uk
- Website: http://www.ocqur.com
Profile
Jonathan is a digital journalist and graphic designer. He is currently a second year student at the University of York, studying English Literature and Linguistics. He is Founder and CEO of Ocqur, a platform for breaking news, which is due to launch a product later this year.
Posts by Jonathan Frost
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Are we sidelining academic degrees?
Over the last week, I’ve written 3000 words on Chaucer’s House of Fame and had an exam on Language Acquisition (baby talk, essentially). I’m all over transferable skills, and but I did wonder last week just how helpful consuming several
16. January, 2012
Advice, Comment, Finding a job, Getting started, Routes into journalism, Work experience
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Out of touch career advice is worthless
As a young person without a job, and with fairly minimal job prospects, there is nothing I resent more than career advice along the lines of “you’re not trying hard enough,” ”just get on with it,” and “get a foot
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The Entrepreneur decides on his #journoresolution
Earlier this week we had a tweet from @olliepelling, who has bravely decided that he will be pitching and hopefully writing for no less that 100 publications in 2012. It’s one hell of a resolution, and one that will certainly
11. January, 2012
Routes into journalism
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Come to the 2012 Wannabe Hacks website launch and meetup
We’re having a meetup, and you’re invited! It’s been a while since the last one, so we’re hoping there will be lots of journo faces, old and new. It’s also the first official meetup with Hacks 2.0 at the helm, and
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Hannah Clugston: Leveson should be looking at the gossip mags for bad journalism
Hannah Clugston is an aspiring fashion journalist, based in York and Sheffield. She works part-time for the Yorkshire Post and the York Press, and was previously the Nouse Comment Editor. She has also interned at various magazines and dabbled in
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CUNY’s new MA Entrepreneurial Journalism course is the opposite of what we need
The City University of New York has recently announced it will run a new MA course at its Graduate School of Journalism: Entrepreneurial Journalism. I have some issues with this, primarily: could there be anything less entrepreneurial than spending thousands
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Wannabe Hacks Guest Post Awards – The final shortlists
The hottest prize in journalism moves one step closer to finding an owner today as we release the shortlists for our Guest Post awards. No, one of these lucky few won’t bag themselves a work experience stint or even something
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Forget the iPad, let’s enjoy reading on the web in 2012
Why is it that the iPad has all these beautifully designed apps for consuming news, but a similar experience is so hard to find when browsing the web? I don’t have any statistics to back this up, but I’d bet
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Chris Mandle: Am I a writer or a journalist? One hack’s identity crisis
Chris Mandle completed his NCTJ in Multimedia Journalism at the start of 2011, and has worked as a freelancer at FHM, The Fly and NME. He is now Style & Grooming Editor for Blokely, and can be found tweeting at @chris_mandle. It took me
20. December, 2011
Advice, Finding a job, Getting started, Guest posts, How to guides, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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