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Becky Barnes: Top tips in a tweet for aspiring hacks
Becky Barnes tweets at @beckybarnesb and blogs at dancingwithmissb.wordpress.com An experienced and well-respected journalist told me a journalist never stops learning, so this piece is for everyone; from aspiring students to old-hand hacks. Every journalist knows the importance of a
15. November, 2011
Advice, Applications, Comment, CVs, Finding a job, How to guides, Interviews, Routes into journalism, Writing
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Biding your time post-job interview
It’s been a few days since I returned from my rollercoaster of a job interview and while I’ve moved past my little snafu, I have to wait until later this month to find out if I’ve bagged the job.
11. November, 2011
Advice, Applications, Comment, Finding a job, How to guides, Industries, Interviews, Newspaper, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Writing
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The Jobseeker screws up: A lesson in the unexpected
Job interviews present a lot of challenges, but most are easily prepped for. You can do your follow ups, read the material and familiarize yourself with the area well before showing up. There are other variables that are a bit
8. November, 2011
Advice, Applications, Comment, CVs, Finding a job, Industries, Interviews, Newspaper, Routes into journalism, Tools, Writing
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The Jobseeker preps for an interview
At the time this post goes up – I’ll be on a plane, bound for a job interview. I’m writing this the night before (obviously) and am nervous to say the least. It’s all pretty nerve-wracking and sort of one
19. October, 2011
Advice, Digital and online, Expert Insight, Freelancing, Routes into journalism, Writing
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An Interview with Emma Cossey: Freelance Blogger and Social media journalist | Part two
We spoke to Emma Cossey on Tuesday about how she left her career in business behind to become a full time blogger. Here she continues our chat by giving her handy hints on how to make your blog successful. What do you
18. October, 2011
Advice, Comment, Digital and online, Expert Insight, Freelancing, Routes into journalism, Writing
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An Interview with Emma Cossey: Freelance blogger and Social media journalist | Part one
Emma Cossey is a freelance blogger/writer/web editor. Multi tasking numerous roles she freelances from her home in Reading where she writes for popular lifestyle blogazines for Aigua media; dollymix.tv, Shoewawa.com,OSOGLAM.com as well as other websites Dorkadore.com and ItsOpen.com. She also manages the social media
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How to do court reporting, part two: Writing up the report
Following my post last week about going to court, I actually went to court on Friday for a story. It was a bit of a disaster really, with lots of things going wrong, including the defendant in the case I
14. October, 2011
Advice, Comment, Getting started, Newspaper, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Student media, Writing
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Looking back: The Jobseeker’s first ever published piece of Journalism
Now that I’m back in the states and staying at my house for longer than a few days, the boredom has set in pretty quickly. After a day of trying to teach myself Ruby (someone help please!) I started rooting
7. October, 2011
Advice, Applications, Comment, CVs, Finding a job, Getting started, How to guides, Routes into journalism, Tools, Writing
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The Jobseeker’s slightly angry post about writing cover letters
The one thing I’ve found most frustrating about the job seeking process so far isn’t the rejection, the sort of transient lifestyle I’ve taken on, the up-in-the-air; down-in-the-mouth mood swings or just being flat out broke. It’s the cover letters.
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Making contacts
Whenever you ask a journalist for their tips on making it in journalism, they always harp on about the importance of contacts. That’s certainly my experience anyway. And I have to admit they’re right. I remember two years ago when
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