Profile: The Maverick
- Name Alice Vincent
- Location London
- Twitter: alice_emily
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- Email: maverick@wannabehacks.co.uk
- Website: http://www.alicevincent.net
Profile
Alice is currently working at Wired.co.uk, having moved to London in the start of this year. After graduating from Newcastle University in summer 2010, she fled rural Buckinghamshire to spend three months in New York interning at NYLON magazine. Alice's main editorial interests lie in culture and the arts, and when not tweeting fanatically, writes about them for The Arts Desk and other publications.
Posts by The Maverick
1. September, 2011
Advice, Digital and online, Freelancing, Guest posts, Industries, Reporting, Routes into journalism
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Julian Benson: Last minute assignments and covering festivals
Continuing to serve no benefit to society, Julian Benson found himself telling people he was a ‘freelance writer’. He recently managed to spend a month at PC Pro after a case of mistaken identity landed him an placement, he hid
31. August, 2011
Comment, Industries, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Work experience and interning
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End of summer and a new start for Hacks
I always get excited by this time of year. There’s a nip in the air, an urge to put opaque tights on and that slight anticipation that accompanies new beginnings. It’s been nearly two years since I started a new
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An ode to writer’s block
I wrote this a little while ago for an arts writing competition – which, you may not be surprised to learn, I didn’t win. It’s not a very good entry. We don’t often post up non-Hacks writing on the site,
22. August, 2011
Advice, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Work experience and interning, Writing
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Making relations with press relations
PR’s been an issue of contention on Wannabe Hacks in the past – and here I’m not going to discuss the merits or downsides of journalism’s best frenemy, but merely how to get along nicely with them. Because whether you
19. August, 2011
Comment, Finding a job, Industries, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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The rise of the celebrity intern isn’t doing wannabe hacks any favours at all
[Update - see the Freelancer's response to this piece here...] It was the reason I couldn’t watch The City. It was the reason I would ruin my flatmates’ hangover viewing of Running in Heels by squealing at the TV during
17. August, 2011
Digital and online, Finding a job, Freelancing, Guest posts, Industries, Routes into journalism
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Sam Parker: An open offer to wannabe hacks
Sam Parker is editor of Asylum.co.uk. Get in touch with him at @samparkercouk or sam.parker@teamaol.com. When I started out in journalism, a lot of old hands – including A. A. Gill, no less – told me: ‘never write for free’. The idea
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What’s great about being a Wannabe Hack
Intern Come Saturday morning Wannabe Hacks will have been running one year to the day – it has given me opportunities I simply could not foresee as I walked out of my last exam about 15 months ago. It has
11. August, 2011
Advice, Finding a job, Industries, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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How I’d be better at work experience now
As we near the end of our year as the Wannabe Hacks (have you heard we’re looking for Hacks 2.0? You can apply here if you want to be considered!), we’re all getting a little contemplative. The Chancer’s looked back
8. August, 2011
Advice, Industries, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Work experience and interning, Writing
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Looking back: how I’ve improved my writing
It’s been nearly four years since I first got something in print. A 50 word single review in my student newspaper – under somebody else’s byline, no less – which I was enormously excited to see, hold and read. While
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The highs and lows of freelancing
The unthinkable has happened: I’ve started to be commissioned things. To write. For real publications. For money. In short - freelancing, something I’ve always had so little confidence in my ability to do in the past. The reasons why I