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Hyperlocal news: lots of work and little money
Gaz Corfield is a one-time student newspaper editor, founder and editor of The West Londoner local news website, and is now a social media specialist working in London. He is passionate about journalism (despite having sold out!) but just can’t see how it
7. February, 2012
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Jonathon Cockburn: How to make your radio bulletin sing
Jonathon Cockburn has had no formal journalism training, but after a year working as a Programmes Assistant at Radio Forth in Edinburgh he is now a Broadcast Assistant on BBC Asian Network’s main news programme – Asian Network Reports. He
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The power of a personal project: Wannabe Hacks meets Gaby Dunn of 100 Interviews
When Gaby Dunn graduated from journalism school with no jobs going, she didn’t just give up. She set herself a project. She decided she would interview 100 people in the space of a year and post the interviews, for free,
8. November, 2011
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What I learnt from Marie Claire’s: How to get into Magazines event.
Emma Greatorex is an undergrad student studying journalism at the University of Lincoln. She is also the Deputy Culture Editor of student newspaper The Linc. You can follow her on Twitter here: @emgreatorex. Over 50 young aspiring journalists attended the
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Martin Cloake: Solberg’s 10% rule proves we still don’t get social media
Martin Cloake is a journalist, award-winning author, editor, trainer and project manager. He writes and edits sport, finance, media and technology. When I read that Norwegian editor Helje Solberg had told last week’s News Rewired event that staff on her
19. October, 2011
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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
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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
28. September, 2011
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Getting subpoenaed: An interview with Toni Locy (Part 2)
In the last post, Toni Locy talked about the court case that almost landed her in jail for not revealing her sources. Here, she talks about facing that possibility and what we need to know as fledgling journalists. In late
27. September, 2011
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Getting subpoenaed: an interview with Toni Locy (Part 1)
Just two weeks ago the Metropolitan Police threatened to use the Official Secrets act as a way of forcing The Guardian to reveal their sources in their phone hacking scandal coverage The move, had it materialized, would have been an
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Interview with Lucy Vine: Senior news writer at More! magazine.
Whilst interning at More! Magazine I met the lovely Lucy Vine- More’s senior news writer. She’s interviewed countless celebrities and writes the main celebrity news features for More! Here Lucy talks to Wannabehacks about how she got her dream job
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