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20. October, 2011
Advice, Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Finding a job, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Television
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The era of friends in low places: the Jobseeker gets sentimental
Job seeking has some bleak moments. When I started blogging in early September I wasn’t so much worried about the content I’d produce for you as someone seeking a job, but what I would call myself after I got a
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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
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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Do modern journalists still need the skill of shorthand? | DEBATE
The past week everyone has been chatting on Twitter about whether wannabe hacks really need shorthand anymore. With the rise of social media and online technology is the old school skill of shorthand simply dying out? So we ask, to hand or
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
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Diversity in journalism part 1: can diversity schemes change the face of the newsroom?
When it comes to race, UK journalism is a whitewash. Fewer than 7% of journalists and editors come from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to the Professional Publishers Association (PPA). Given that most of the UK’s journalism industry is based in
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Journalists should spend 10% of their time on social media
At last week’s news:rewired conference, I attended a session about Newsroom Architecture. The topics discussed were quite far-reaching, and in her presentation, Helje Solberg, executive editor of the norwegian paper VG, spoke about how her newsroom use social media. She
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Storify: misuse, monetisation, and the media.
Storify has to be hot property of the year, in the world of digital journalism. For those of you that have been living under a rock, it allows users to curate and compile social media in order to create a
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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