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9. May, 2012 Advice, latest, Production, Writing
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Review: Inside the Story

by Jonathan Frost

Review: Inside the Story Billed as a masterclass in digital storytelling by those who do it best, Inside The Story is a journalism ebook that wannabes shouldn’t pass up on. It’s an insightful and interesting collection of tips, beautifully presented. Inside The Story is
23. March, 2012 Digital and online, latest, Magazine, Production
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VIDEO: Behind the scenes at a magazine

by Hannah Bass

If I’ve been a little absent from Wannabe Hacks and Twitter of late, it’s because all my love, time and effort has been put into producing City University journalism school’s annual lifestyle magazine, XCity Arts & Culture. Somewhere in the
1. February, 2012 Advice, Digital and online, Industries, Newspaper, Production, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Tools
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The Hacks at news:rewired

by Jonathan Frost

The Hacks at news:rewired This Friday, the Wannabe Hacks are heading to Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired event, Media in Motion. We’ll be live blogging the sessions, tweeting, storifying, and also posting more traditional coverage over the course of the day. We’ll be doing this all over at
7. December, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Production
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Henry Taylor: iPad 2 as a mobile journalism tool

by Jonathan Frost

Henry Taylor writes for the The National Student, The Graduate Times, the University of Southampton’s Wessex Scene, and until June this year, was the Opinions Editor of the Soton Tab - he tweets @henryctaylor Thanks to the iPad 2, mobile journalism has been made a whole
3. November, 2011 Advice, Comment, Guest posts, Industries, Production, Radio, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Student media, Television
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Jamie Chadd: Getting involved in student media, a look at television

by Jon Offredo

  Jamie Chadd can be found blogging here and tweeting here. It always strikes me as funny to see the term “student media” bandied about as if it was easily interchangeable with “student press” when in fact most universities and student
18. October, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Finding a job, How to guides, Industries, Newspaper, Production, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Tools
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The Jobseeker covers an Occupation – on the cheap

by Jon Offredo

        A while back I blogged about covering riots, and the coverage of the London Riots. I’ve been following the Occupy Wall Street and subsequent movements across the US with a bit of a passing interest for
13. October, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Getting started, How to guides, Industries, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Production, Reporting, Tools
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Getting started with multimedia

by Jon Offredo

During one of my first forays into multimedia ever I found myself knee-deep and just a bit over my head. There I was standing in the middle of pigsty, trying to not get any more crap on myself than I
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

by The Maverick

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
31. May, 2011 Advice, Comment, Freelancing, Industries, Newspaper, Production, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Student media
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Designing pages of a newspaper is an unrecognised art – and this video proves it

by The Student

Newspaper design is the unglamorous side of journalism. Those that put together pages and page furniture (you find mostly in the tabloids) rarely get the praise they deserve – it’s not like writing, when you get a byline. But, as
4. April, 2011 Advice, Comment, Digital and online, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Postgraduate course, Production, Routes into journalism, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Undergraduate course
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Five things I learned during production week

by The Student

Five things I learned during production week Recently at City, we’ve been put through our paces during three intensive weeks of production working on two hyperlocal news sites, Islington Now and Hackney Post (and producing a 16 page not-for-publication copy). The aim of the three weeks is to
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  • mairigordon14 on Get a journo job: start your own paper

    I think the editor is right to say, start with print. Having worked at a couple local papers one thing...
    Posted May 17, 2012
  • Eastleigh_news on Hyperlocal news: lots of work and little money

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