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.
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Rik Sharma: How to get the perfect vox-pops
Rik has recently gained his NCTJ-preliminaries at News Associates, London, and is an aspiring sports journalist. He writes for bornoffside.net and can be found on Twitter here. There is something about standing in a street with a camera and a notebook
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Jamie Chadd: 5 things I learned from a journalism phone interview gone wrong!
Jamie Chadd can be found blogging here and tweeting here. On Monday morning I took a message from BBC South, regarding my recent work experience application for a broadcast journalism placement. I called back, and they asked if I was
27. July, 2011
Advice, Digital and online, Getting started, How to guides, Industries, Routes into journalism
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Twitter: the basics for aspiring journalists
Twitter’s an essential tool for young journalists to put themselves and their work out there. The micro-blogging site has just celebrated it’s 5th birthday, but while it’s near-impossible for those who have been Tweeting for the last few years to
26. July, 2011
Comment, Guest posts, Industries, Newspaper, Routes into journalism, Work experience and interning
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Simon Murphy: Should more young journalists be saying “show me the money”?
Simon is a Newcastle University graduate, where he was news editor of the student newspaper, The Courier, for two years. He has written for The Independent on Sunday, The Times, Press Association, The Journal and Sunday Sun in Newcastle, and
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How to: research effectively
Increasingly graduates are cracking into journalism through the perilous world of freelancing. We’ve discussed time and time again how it’s not an easy environment out there, but whether you’re choosing to carve a niche or embracing every opportunity going, research
20. July, 2011
Routes into journalism
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Liam Blackburn: What journalists can learn from the Murdoch select committee
Liam recently completed the MA Print Journalism course at the University of Sheffield. He has been on work experience at the Manchester Evening News and The Sunday Times and is about to start freelancing for Press Association Sport. He can be found blogging
18. July, 2011
Advice, Finding a job, How to guides, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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How to handle the summer break as a wannabe hack
If you’re a student, chances are you’re making the most of those paradisical summer holidays round about now. But while road trips, festivals and part-time work are all for the undertaking, these long breaks offer the perfect distance from curricular
14. July, 2011
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How can we have role models in an industry with such an uncertain future?
Do singular writers sell newspapers, or do news and features sell newspapers? Which make you want to be a journalist — the amazing columnist you aspire to be like, or the thrill of breaking a story as huge as the
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Do journalists need business cards? | DEBATE
Business cards are a bit like Marmite: you either love ‘em or hate. The old skool formality can seem out-dated but yet people still carry them around and swap them like phone numbers in a night club. But should aspiring
7. July, 2011
Advice, Digital and online, Finding a job, How to guides, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Routes into journalism, Television, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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What to wear on work experience | The girl edition
Deciding what to wear on work experience is often very tricky. How formal do you go? Tie or no tie? Does this pencil skirt much me look like a secretary? What does smart casual ACTUALLY mean? So Wannabe Hacks have