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26. March, 2013
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While freelancing, stories can emerge from anywhere
We are always searching for the next story, the next opportunity to write up something and produce a strong piece of news. Without searching too hard though, it is amazing how a story can fall right into your lap and
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Emanuelle Degli Esposti – There are many forgotten stories of the Arab Spring
There is a sense of doomed inevitability when you open a newspaper (or load a webpage) these days and see the word “Syria”. Cue a mass of words describing, in grim detail, the most recent “massacre”, “tragedy” or “catastrophe” that
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Nicole Froio – How I fell out of love with student media
My student media career was relatively long. I started as a very keen first year writer for Forge Press and became news editor for my second year which kept me busy most hours of the day and pretty much killed
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Why campus reporters should ‘Like’ the Facebook ticker
We’re going Facebook crazy at the moment. Yesterday The Entreprenuer argued journalists were a bit late to get to grips with how to use Facebook. This morning The Postgrad said that Facebook could be more useful than Twitter and now
25. January, 2012
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Emily Ding: How can I become the narrative journalist I want to be?
Emily Ding is a twenty-something barrister turned freelance journalist-writer (that takes care of the identity crisis) based in London who aspires to longform narrative journalism. Follow her at www.mock-heroic.net and @mock_heroic. I’ve always wanted to write. As a teenager I
28. June, 2011
Routes into journalism
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Jobs in Journalism: Would you sell your Gran for a story?
This is of course a daft question, but a difficult one to answer for young hacks. Often as young journalists we are asked how far you would go in pursuit of a story. How many lines would you cross in
14. March, 2011
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The worrying trend of ego in young journalists
Paul Bradshaw, in his inaugural lecture at City University London, entitled ‘Is Ice Cream Strawberry?’, flagged up ego as a journalist’s biggest problem. He said: “It is ego that leads us to report on a story without linking to our
6. February, 2011
Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Radio, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Television, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning, Writing
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Nigel Barlow: Where stories come from
Nigel Barlow is a freelance journalist specialising in media,politics,business and economics. and travel. He is co founder of Inside the M60, hyperlocal newsite for Manchester he blogs here and tweets here When we first launched Inside the M60 last April, we
15. October, 2010
Routes into journalism
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Three ways to use Facebook as a news gathering tool
News reporting is increasingly becoming about getting stories 1) that other media organisations don’t have and 2) faster than everyone else. To this end, many journalists are using Twitter as a tool to gather news stories via the updates of
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