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18. January, 2011
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Blue Monday and a Blue Maverick
I pride myself on being a positive person, taking knock-backs in my stride and making do. However, I think I may have potentially hit a small stumbling block in my normally energetic plight to become a journalist. Take one underestimation
16. January, 2011
Advice, Digital and online, Getting started, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Routes into journalism, Television
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Five tips to create original journalism (away from the computer)
We certainly live in a brave new world of journalism. There’s a plethora of resources, tools, legislation (FOI is just one example), all of which have added to the journalist’s armoury. But the advent of social media and IT based
16. January, 2011
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Lamposts and shop windows is where you find news
Being a reporter isn’t just about writing flowing prose. It’s about sourcing the story, finding a lead and getting that tip off. And that can be tough, especially if you’re on work experience and trying to make a mark but
15. January, 2011
Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Newspaper, Reporting, Routes into journalism
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Rachel McAthy: A day in the life of Journalism.co.uk reporter
From the moment I get up in the morning I try and get a grip on the conversations of the day so far within the journalism industry, catching up on Twitter and checking emails I have received overnight such as
14. January, 2011
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Ed Oldfield: Times change but good journalism stays the same
Ed Oldfield, a production journalist with South West Media Group in Plymouth, considers what has changed in the industry over the last quarter of a century. Ed has set up a website, www.beajournalist.talktalk.net, aimed at entrants to the industry. For
10. January, 2011
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Reporter’s week, it’s all about the buzz.
My desire to be a journalist never stemmed out of getting a scoop or spreading the word from a crime scene. The kind of reporting I was, and remain, interested in doing isn’t that which people typically associate with hard-nosed,
8. January, 2011
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The Maverick on online news – Journalism.co.uk
While tourists and musical-goers flock around Picadilly Circus, I’m writing this amongst the rattles of the number 12 “devil bus” on an hour long ride home. Home not being some far-flung commuter town, but South East London. Since I’ve started
13. December, 2010
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The Pro-Blag: are you brave enough?
Blagging tickets to your favourite gig or sneaking backstage may be one perk of being a rookie journo, but of late I’ve been finding myself ‘Pro-Blagging’ – an entirely different beast. Increasingly as I try to ‘make it’, I find
6. December, 2010
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X-Factor? I’m A Celeb? They’re all much better on Twitter
Reality TV is the pop culture people love to hate. Beyond hate. People revel in performing intellectual snobbery upon its formulaic structure and money-grabbing associations. And yet it’s one of the main reasons behind the readerships of glossy weeklies at
29. November, 2010
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Too proud to write for “The Daily Fail”?
When you’re looking for something, you’d be amazed how quickly your standards lower. We’re talking about jobs here as opposed to that desperate 4am scanning of the dance floor… On Sunday Giles Coren wrote a column much like those he
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