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28. March, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, How to guides, Industries, Reporting, Routes into journalism

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Deborah Bonello: How I overcame failure to become a foreign correspondent and create my own brand

by The Maverick

I was inspired by failure. I made my first foray into foreign reporting in 2005, when I flew out to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and started working as a freelance reporter. I got a few pieces on BBC News Online and

27. March, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries

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Sam Parker: Changing Media Summit… answers to the big questions?

by The Maverick

Sam Parker is assistant editor of AOL Music. Follow him on Twitter (@samparkercouk” target=”_blank”>@samparkercouk) or sam-parker.co.uk. For new journalists in 2011, there are as many questions being passed down as there are answers. Chief among them is no longer simply

24. March, 2011 Comment, Guest posts, Industries, Radio, Routes into journalism, Student media, Television

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Charlotte Lytton: with all this paper speak, where’s TV & radio?

by The Maverick

So you wanna write for the student rag? Why not the TV station or radio shack? Charlotte Lytton lets us know why there’s such a divide and what we could do to stop it… Writing for a university rag has

23. March, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Newspaper, Postgraduate course, Routes into journalism, Student media, Undergraduate course

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Daniel Bentley: Ripping up the student newspaper and why the web is the answer

by The Student

Daniel Bentley is online editor of Pluto, UCLan’s student newspaper, and a blogger at inkthink.org – he tweets media, tech and Burnley FC @djbentley What purpose does a printed student newspaper still serve? The only reason a student newspaper still

22. March, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Guest posts, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Routes into journalism, Student media

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Elena Cresci: The Siren is proof that alternative, new and entrepreneurial journalism exists for students

by The Maverick

Elena Cresci is editor, co-founder and writer of The Siren: Swansea students’ alternative approach to student journalism. Describing themselves as the “students you can’t shut up” The Siren is an interesting and inspirational take on how student media is no

16. March, 2011 Applications, Comment, CVs, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Finding a job, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Postgraduate course, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience, Work experience and interning

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Inspired & mentored? Marie Claire’s event fails to satisfy

by The Maverick

An event entitled ‘How To Get Into Magazines’ was never going to do what it said on the tin. Which is a great shame, given the 50 or so beautifully turned-out, bushy-tailed and bright-eyed, hungry young magazine journalists who turned

15. March, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Guest posts, Industries, Routes into journalism

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Adam Westbrook: ‘There’s lot of people talking about entrepreneurial journalism but not enough doing it’

by The Student

Freelance video journalist Adam Westbrook talks to Wannabe Hacks about entrepreneurial journalism and the importance of collaboration and starting a project at the earliest opportunity. Adam also talks about My News Biz, a fantastic nationwide search for the best new

14. March, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Radio, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Television, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning

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The worrying trend of ego in young journalists

by The Student

Paul Bradshaw, in his inaugural lecture at City University London, entitled ‘Is Ice Cream Strawberry?’, flagged up ego as a journalist’s biggest problem. He said: “It is ego that leads us to report on a story without linking to our

11. March, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Postgraduate course, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Student media, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning, Writing

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Katie Oakes: Student media pre-election coverage

by The Student

Our regular student media expert Katie Oakes takes a look at the different student newspaper stories coming out of the woodwork in the run up to the student union elections. March is election month when students all over the country

9. March, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Routes into journalism, Student media, Work experience and interning

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I’m an AA – Aspiring Arts – Journalist

by The Maverick

I’m finding it very difficult to write a post introducing arts journalism. Not least because it’s something that is not easily introduced. For a start, if I’m a journalist rookie, then I’m most definitely an arts journalist rookie – even