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4. February, 2013 Advice, Production, Reporting
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What I learnt at the BBC ‘Get In’ roadshow in Salford

by Natasha Clark

What I learnt at the BBC ‘Get In’ roadshow in Salford The BBC’s Journalism Trainee Scheme and Production Talent Pool attract thousands of applications for their schemes every year. Understandably, it’s incredibly competitive. At the BBC Trainee Scheme’s ‘Get In’ roadshow last week in Salford, Simon Wright, Claire Prosser and Kate Hoyland
30. January, 2013 Advice, Production, Reporting, Tools
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Being smarter with your smartphone

by Liam Corcoran

Being smarter with your smartphone All this week, Digital Bristol, alongside the BBC, are providing a series of workshops and events to showcase the best and cutting edge technology currently in use, or that will be soon. The BBC are capitalising on this in order
11. January, 2013 Advice, Featured, Production
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‘Practice makes perfect’ – tips and tricks for wannabe broadcasters

by George Berridge

‘Practice makes perfect’ – tips and tricks for wannabe broadcasters One of the major obstacles that journalists find themselves facing is the sense of unease that overwhelms them when a piece goes live.  ’Is everything right?’, ‘Will people hate this?’ and ‘Do I dare look at the comments?’ are all
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
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