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
5. July, 2011
Advice, Entrepreneurship, Getting started, Guest posts, Production, Routes into journalism
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Ashley Fryer: Digitising recipes led to launching a crowd-sourced cookery website
Ashley is a writer, blogger, baker and all round nosey person. She writes about women, commuting and Glee (among other things), and has recently taken up residence as a blogger on the Huffington Post. Her personal blog can be found
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Being a Huffington Post free blogger – what’s in it for wannabe journalists?
If you’re an aspiring journalist, unless you’ve had your head in a paper bag (metaphorical or otherwise) since April, you’ll probably be aware of online media leviathon, the Huffington Post, coming to the UK from its native America. For those
27. June, 2011
Comment, Finding a job, Industries, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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Where is the line between nepotism and networking?
Journalism is an industry that survives on contacts — but when does a professional connection stray into favouritism, and should we care when it does? It’s a question that came to me during an insightful talk given by Fiona O’Cleirigh
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Follow Friday: The Kaplans – educational ‘journalists’ on Twitter
It’s no big secret that we can learn things about journalism from Twitter. From being guided to content we otherwise wouldn’t see, to watching communities form and even the occasional job opportunity, the micro-blogging site has revolutionised online journalism and
23. June, 2011
Advice, Freelancing, Guest posts, How to guides, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Writing
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Laurence Green: case study – writing from press releases part #2
After Laurence Green’s piece this morning’s on tips for writing from a press release, he takes us through one that’s been sitting in the Freelancer’s inbox… ***
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Becca Cosgriff: Stumbling into journalism with Stylist magazine
Becca is 24 and has been living in South London with two housemates and one hamster for just over a year. She has a degree and Masters in Ancient History from the University of Nottingham, and is currently working as
10. June, 2011
Advice, Digital and online, How to guides, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Routes into journalism
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How to interview part 3: six tips on how to interview via email
It’s quite awkward to be finishing off our interviewing triple-header with a how-to of email interviews, because it’s fair to say they’re not considered as highly as face-to-face or phoners. Indeed, you’ve no personal contact, no verbal way of asking
7. June, 2011
Advice, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Work experience and interning, Writing
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Word Counts, TKs and Kickers – getting to grips with print restrictions
Bearing in mind my offline existence last week, it seems fitting that I had print deadlines to meet this weekend. That golden moment of opportunity sprung itself halfway through last week. While I have had a romance of grand whirlwind
1. June, 2011
Comment, Digital and online, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Work experience and interning
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Progress Report: The Maverick takes London
Six months ago I wrote my first ever Progress Report for Wannabe Hacks. I remember it vividly – laptop, parental home comforts, the slight tubby feeling which accompanies that time of year, and a fair amount of unease about the
30. May, 2011
Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning
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Kickin’ and screaming it old school – are we being made lazy by the internet?
In the last 48 hours I have been forced to live the life of a more old school journalist. I’ve been without Cheryl, my beloved Blackberry, for a unfathomably long time (actually about three weeks) since a nasty water bottle