Photojournalism

20. June, 2011 Digital and online, Finding a job, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Television, Training schemes, Work experience, Work experience and interning

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Top 50 journalism work placements | an infographic

by The Student

Last week, you may have seen we ran our list of the 50 best journalism work placements, as voted by the readers of Wannabe Hacks (You can see a full list here: 50 – 41, 40 – 31, 30 – 21, 20 – 11, 10 – 6

16. June, 2011 Digital and online, Finding a job, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Television, Training schemes, Work experience, Work experience and interning

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Top 50 journalism work placements | 20 – 11

by The Student

Here we go, another ten brilliant journalism work placements, as nominated by you guys. This is our fourth installment of the Wannabe Hacks top 50 (see 50 – 41, 40 – 31 and 30 – 21) and today we’ve pulled

15. June, 2011 Digital and online, Finding a job, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Routes into journalism, Television, Work experience

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Top 50 journalism work placements | 30 – 21

by The Student

Things are really hotting up in our top 50 journalism placements list. We’ve already had our first two lots of nominations (see 50 – 41 and 40 – 31) and today we’re giving you the third batch which contains our

14. June, 2011 Digital and online, Finding a job, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Television, Training schemes, Work experience, Work experience and interning

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Top 50 journalism work placements | 40 – 31

by The Student

So we’re hurtling through the Wannabe Hacks top 50 places to do journalism work experience. Yesterday we explained how we decided the list and unfurled a fine group of ten placements to kick us off; today we’ve got another sterling set which

13. June, 2011 Digital and online, Finding a job, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Television, Training schemes, Work experience, Work experience and interning

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Top 50 journalism work placements | 50 – 41

by The Student

Six weeks ago, Wannabe Hacks set out to find the best work experience the industry has to offer. Almost 80 nominations and a lot of debating later, we can officially reveal the first instalment of our top 50, detailing work

30. May, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning

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Kickin’ and screaming it old school – are we being made lazy by the internet?

by The Maverick

In the last 48 hours I have been forced to live the life of a more old school journalist. I’ve been without Cheryl, my beloved Blackberry, for a unfathomably long time (actually about three weeks) since a nasty water bottle

27. May, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Finding a job, Getting started, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Radio, Routes into journalism, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Television, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience, Work experience and interning

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How to get work experience | part four: chasing up your email/letter and forging contacts

by The Student

So you’ve got it into your head to do work experience over the summer, you’ve put together a decent cover letter and flagged up all your strengths on your CV – but what happens next? Chances are you won’t be

25. May, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Finding a job, Getting started, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Routes into journalism, Student media, Television, Work experience, Work experience and interning

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How to get work experience | part two: write an eye-catching cover letter

by The Student

With the end of our search for the top 50 work experience placements fast approaching (you should nominate if you haven’t already), we’ve been thinking about how to go about getting work experience in the first place. Yesterday The Chancer

11. May, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Finding a job, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Radio, Television

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LinkedIn: is it useful for journalists?

by The Maverick

“Every time I get a LinkedIn invitation a LOLCAT dies” - if this sentence is nonsensical to you, then it’s a pretty good representation of how much I understand the existence of LinkedIn. If you do understand it, then you’ll appreciate how

3. May, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Finding a job, Getting started, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Radio, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Television, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience, Work experience and interning

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The Wannabe Hacks nominate their best journalism placement for our top 50

by The Student

Wannabe Hacks have launched their quest to find the top 50 journalism placements in the world and are asking YOU to nominate your best internship or stint of work experience. Here the Hacks reveal their top placements and why they