Posts Tagged ‘Journalism’
Every cloud
At work we have been enjoying what they call ‘down time’. Much like Supernanny’s naughty step, ‘down time’ is when IT take a look at the whole publishing system and what we complain about and screw up and then punish us by putting it offline to tamper with and ‘improve’. Yes, this is very dull. [...]
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Tags: boredom, Business, down time, Dubai, fired, Journalism, meeting, office, sales, travel writing
Being the new girl
I suppose it would be quite an anticlimax if I didn’t mention how my first week of work went. After all, I did spend months whinging about being unemployed and so surely writing about being employed in the media is much more interesting? This last week has been one of the longest in my life [...]
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Tags: Doubt, editorial, Journalism, nerves, new job, reporter, style guides, Work
I am open to the obvious changes that journalism is undergoing, the Internet has revolutionised how we access our information after all. However, after hearing Twitter rumours about Rupert Murdoch charging readers to read online news sites, I brushed the idea aside thinking nothing of it but a scheme that would go no further than [...]
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Tags: BBC, death of print, Guardian, Independent, information, iTunes, Journalism, News, newspapers, online, pay, pay for news, Rupert Murdoch, The Sun, The Times, website
An A – Z of Journalism
I wrote an A- Z of cycling in a previous blog about a year ago after reading Boris Johnson’s hilarious A-Z of cycling in the Times. I think its time some of the great industry of Journalism was quantified alphabetically. A – Alcohol. Self explanatory in these straitened times. B – By-lines, without one of [...]
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Tags: alcohol, Alphabet, editors, humour, jobs, Journalism, newspapers
I can see this as being a recurring theme in the next few weeks, today I had two job rejections within mere minutes of one another. Last week I endured a rather nerve-wracking job interview for an editorial position here in Salford (too good to be true by all accounts) sadly, as I actually wanted [...]
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Tags: application, employment, job hunt, Journalism, media, MediaCity, redundancy, travel, Work
The Price of Journalism
I have just paid for my last installment of rent and my exam re-sits. The total cost was over £700 for both of them. I reckon I have paid about £6,000 in total for my journalism studies including tuition fees, exams, materials, travel and rent. If I added alcohol expenditure to that list then you [...]
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Tags: Channel M, internet, Journalism, Kate Adie, manchester, media, money, print, radio, recession, redundancies, redundant, sack, television
Evening News gone wild west.
I am on my work experience week at the Manchester Evening News this week. Its easy to get to as its int he same place I did my TV work experience a few weeks ago. I was originally down to do a week of features at the MEN but that got cancelled and I managed [...]
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Tags: court, Journalism, manchester, MEN, redundancy, reporter, spotting, wild west
Channel M, cameramen and babies!
Well hello. Its been a jam-packed three days and tomorrow will be my final curtain call at Channel M before my stint on the Breakfast show in the future… when in the future even I don’t know but ti has been promised. Anyway I’ve been out and about on a lot of “packages” and “minis” [...]
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Tags: babies, camera, cameramen, cathedral, families, Journalism, mini, News, package, reporters, story, TV, woman
Well I have been super busy since Friday because after a hectic newsday on Friday I whisked myself off to Wales to go hiking for the weekend only to return yesterday, exhausted for an early nights and a 6am reveille today for my first day of work experience in TELEVISION! First things first though – [...]
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Tags: cameraman, Channel M, exam, fail, Final Cut Pro, Journalism, live, Magistrates court, NCTJ, newswriting, pass, Prunella Scales, reporting, shooting, Timothy West, work experience, Writing
So another day in the life of the trainee hack. The 60/70 shorthand exam came and went like so many fleeting passages about mundane Rutland Times-esque articles. I worked for the Rutland Times for a year and know exactly the sort of stuff they like to print. Hazel Blears when I met her at a [...]
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Tags: babies, court, exam, families, Helen Bowden, Journalism, magistrates, married, NCTJ, Rutland Times, shorthand, student, teeline, wine
