Work experience
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
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Putting FOI into practice: how I got a front page on work experience
Over the week, The Postgrad has been looking at the Freedom of Information act. She’s covered why it’s a great tool for journos, what information you can get and from who, and even provided a template for your very own
9. November, 2011
Advice, How to guides, Magazine, Newspaper, Routes into journalism, Work experience
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How to make interning for free possible
With the current debate raging over whether interning for free is right, or in fact even against the law it certainly is a hot topic at the moment. But unfortunately there is no hiding the fact that to get a
28. October, 2011
Advice, How to guides, Magazine, Newspaper, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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Tips on how to get out of the internship cycle and into your dream job.
Since my last post fellow Wannabe Hacks may think that I postively hate internships and had a miserable time doing them. This isn’t the case. I was pointing out how I could see how publishers encouraged by the economical downturn and lack
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Laurens Cerulus: Tips for learning to pitch as an intern
Laurens Cerulus has just started the MA International Journalism at City University London. He interns at Monocle after-hours. Born, raised and academically (de)formed in Belgium, he’s now discovering the oddities of British media. He also blogs here – sometimes –
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Learning from women’s weeklies: an interview with Natasha Wynarczyk
‘Real life’ women’s weeklies might be overlooked by young journalists in need of work experience. Usually we aren’t the target readership for these often garish, always fascinating cheap reads. Yet they are among the most widely read magazines: Take a
5. October, 2011
Finding a job, Guest posts, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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Rhiannon Williams: What I learnt at The Telegraph
Rhiannon Williams is on the Newspaper Journalism MA course at City University. Following illustrating and writing duties for York Uni paper Nouse, Rhiannon undertook six months of work experience at York’s local paper The Press. She writes regularly for Soundsphere and the film section
23. September, 2011
Advice, Comment, Finding a job, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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You say tomato, I say tomahto. You say work experience, I say internship. Let’s call the whole thing off.
Coming off the back of The Intern’s post earlier today about the breakdown of work experience and internships – I figured it might interesting to talk about what it’s like in the US. Well, it’s rather simple. I can’t for the
23. September, 2011
Advice, Getting started, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Work experience, Work experience and interning
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What’s the difference between an internship and work experience? And which one would suit you?
Work placements, work experience, internships…you name it there seems to be a hell of a lot of different terms for getting experience in journalism. But what do they all mean- do they just mean the same thing? The terms can
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Getting something out of a bad work experience placement
As I started my placement with Future Publishing earlier this summer, they announced a 45% fall in profit, adding that publications were under review. Following a tense week of nerves and speculation, Future said it would sell or close eight
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