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Top tips for the perfect interview
Even though it forms the backbone of what we as journalists do, the interview is a tough nut to crack. It requires more than just asking the big questions… Here, I’ve compiled a few tips and tricks that should help
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Let’s start another form of New Journalism
I’m bored. Don’t get me wrong, hacks; I am a news, politics and investigative journalism geek. But as much as I consume all this content and enjoy it, it does leave me a bit empty by the time I reach
15. March, 2013
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Copywriting teaches any writer valuable lessons
Copywriting. For any wannabe hack, the lure of commercial writing is always waiting in the wings as the ‘dark side’ of professional wordsmithery. Lending one’s pen to big business is seen as something of a Faustian pact with ambition and
22. February, 2013
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The seven lessons I learnt from local newspapers
As a wannabe arts and features journalist, I’d always set my sights on work experience at a national paper or magazine. But when my NCTJ diploma demanded I spend Fridays at a paper, the locals were an obvious starting point.
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What constitutes harassment by a journalist?
Last week this collection of tweets from the producer of Daybreak was re-tweeted into the public domain, showing him asking those who knew the late model Reeva Steenkamp, girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, if they would like to speak to the media
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The Santa Maria fire, Jimmy Savile scandal and why journalists must never forget
Coverage of the Santa Maria fire by the Brazilian media has been overwhelming. Whole spreads were allocated to it the day after it happened, bumping any other news to the back of the news agenda. The O Globo website has
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How to keep up in journalism while working that ‘meantime job’
I haven’t felt like a real writer lately. Like many hacks, I have so far failed to get a job as a reporter and settled for a “meantime job”. Honestly, I have been trying to keep up with the hacks
30. November, 2012
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An initial reaction to the Leveson report
Like most hacks, I’m still trying to get my head around the Leveson report. Not through lack of trying, mind you, but 2000 pages is a lot to get through. What I’ll offer up is my initial reaction. It’s the
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Receiving feedback and learning from criticism
I don’t know what I was expecting when I opened that email. I had worked so hard and for so long, I just wanted a chance to prove myself and show that I am a good writer. I have no
9. November, 2012
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How the US election gave me hope for student media
A few months ago, when I started writing for Wannabe Hacks, I wrote a piece about how student media sometimes suffered from a sort of complacency which undermined a lot of the hard work that went into it. If anything
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