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1. February, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Guest posts, Industries, Newspaper, Routes into journalism, Student media
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Joseph Stashko: When a hyperlocal runs out of steam

by The Student

Joseph Stashko: When a hyperlocal runs out of steam Joseph Stashko is a student journalist, you can find him on Twitter here, read his blog here and keep up with Blog Preston here James Thornett, head of Homepage for BBC Online, discovered the difficulty of keeping a hyperlocal regularly
14. January, 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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Ed Oldfield: Times change but good journalism stays the same

by The Student

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 Advice, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Freelancing, Industries, Newspaper, Postgraduate course, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning
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Reporter’s week, it’s all about the buzz.

by The Maverick

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,
29. November, 2010 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Postgraduate course, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning
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Too proud to write for “The Daily Fail”?

by The Maverick

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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