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Hearst will have to work hard to compete with YouTube stars
This week saw the launch of Hello Style, a new YouTube produced by Hearst – the publishers behind Marie Claire, Cosmo and Harper’s Bazaar. I was keen to watch the results – not least because YouTube have shelled out $10million
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Sexism and Samantha Brick: why I’m sick of the Mail Online
Unless you only learned to read this morning, you will have read Samantha Brick’s “Why do women hate me for being beautiful?” article last week and the hundreds of follow-up features and counter-arguments. I don’t even really want to get
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The Express and Star need to compete online
Robert Grant is a 22-year-old wannabe from Surrey. He is a final year undergraduate at Bristol University studying Politics and French. During his time at Bristol he has contributed to Epigram, the university paper, and wrote a blog about his year
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VIDEO: 3 questions I was asked at my first job interview
Yesterday I went for my first ever interview for a real journalism job! Up until yesterday I had no idea what kind of questions I might be asked in an interview for a magazine so I shot this video pretty
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This American Life and a rotten Apple
A few weeks ago I was driving back from my parent’s place to my apartment on Cape Cod. It was a solid 6 hour drive or so and on a Sunday morning my iPod wasn’t really cutting it. Nothing I
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Starting over with digital news
There’s been plenty of buzz over the last couple of weeks about the launch of the new ITV News site. Previously, it was a very watered down offering, and no match for BBC or Sky, as you might expect. Both
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VIDEO: Behind the scenes at a magazine
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
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Redefining local media: One & Other
“We’ve set ourselves a big task: to reinvent the industry. That’s not just for the sake of it, it’s because we think it’s broken as it is, and it has a lot more potential. There’s a whole generation that are
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DIY Journalism: A 16-year-old scoops everyone else
I’ve probably made it clear as day in plenty of past posts about my love for the DIY-ethos of this new-age, or whatever you want to call it, of journalism. I love reading, hearing and watching stories about young journalists,
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Should we embrace accountable commenting?
Facebook comments are easy to integrate, and will, I hope, help to raise the level of discussion on www.nouse.co.uk (the student rag, where I’m Web Editor). But they sacrifice anonymity in the process, and could drive comments that should be
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