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Four things I’ve learnt from my first job in journalism
In January, after months and months of job hunting, I finally started my first job in journalism as a staff writer for GoThinkBig. It’s been nearly three months now so I thought I’d share how I’ve got on and what
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Moving to London to get a job in journalism
Unless you follow my Twitter feed, you probably don’t know it’s my birthday today. However, now that the novelty of turning 22 on the 22nd has started to wear off, I am starting to reflect on my life and my
10. October, 2012
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Dealing with unemployment
As of 9pm last night, I am officially unemployed again. Yesterday was the last shift of my five weeks of subbing at a national newspaper (that I wrote about here). And I’m pretty sad it’s over to be honest. It
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Job hunting: Never underestimate the importance of contacts
It’s been said time and time again: it’s not what you know it’s who you know. It’s a total cliché. But it’s also fairly true in journalism. And it’s something that has annoyed me quite a lot when trying to
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Local newspapers: Redundancies and opportunities
April has proved to be a month of doom and gloom in local newspapers. Over the last month, numerous local newspapers have gone from being dailies to weeklies, cut evening and weekend editions and had major restructures. All of these
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What are your top five journalism apps for smartphones?
It’s getting to be that time of year and if your family is anything like mine, you’ll be bound to get at least one or two iTunes gift cards. Instead of scraping a few ideas of what album to buy
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Jamie Lewis: A job in journalism without a degree – It’s about bylines, not money
Jamie Lewis works for International Business Times and blogs for the Huffington Post. OK, we all know that journalism is tough to get into, that’s why you’re reading Wannabe Hacks, right? What if I could give you an option you’ve
28. July, 2011
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Online journalism CV workshop #2: your tips, hints and advice
And so, after an extremely successful online CV surgery last week (the operation was a complete success doctors!) we’ve decided to have another crack at another possibly sick patient. On the CV examination table this week is Nizaar Kinsella (@NazKinsella).
21. July, 2011
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Online journalism CV workshop: share your thoughts!
Not long ago I posted a little CV workshop for young and graduating wannabe journos to use at will. It was loaded with tips and had some great feedback from our readers… but in the piece I also mentioned that
8. July, 2011
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Journalism CV tips from the Hacks and experts
[What we're planning to do with this piece is maybe run an online CV workshop, where you can send in your CVs and we'll do our best to send them out and get some feedback! How does that sound? Interested?
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Hi Ellie. Brave of you to put this up - I remember getting some tough love about a year ago....
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Hi Ellie. I've just had a session on CVs, so I'll hopefully be able to share some of the advice I...
