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The journalism student’s life
My journalistic life recently has involved renting myself to pay the bills, talking to drug dealers in a pitch black park, and uncovering which shops are selling fireworks to under age youths in Chatham, Medway. Alongside this I’ve been working on an investigative piece for my final year project. I don’t want to tell much about it at the moment, except that I’ve found out that the BBC are working on a very similar documentary, so the competition is on. It’s myself vs a much larger, more experienced, and better-resourced BBC. I’m looking forward to it. As usual we’ve been kept busy at the Centre for Journalism. In fact you can even hear one of our students...
Read MoreI’ve been a bad blogger.
Okay, I totally suck at it due to time restraints. If anyone has flicked through my website recently, it is still full of ‘updating over spring break’ rubbish. That obviously never happened. It’s still a vacant waste of space. Let me explain what I’ve been doing… It was a completely mad year at university, although not for the stereotypical reasons you’d think. I know I’m a horrific time waster, but I did work hard this year. I even missed out on the UMSA award night where I won the ‘outstanding achievement award’, voted by students, for my magazine work this year; I was studying for an exam. I wont lie, my enthusiasm evaporated a few times over the...
Read MoreIt’s been a while…
As predicted my website has turned into another never-updated-feature-of-my-life. Albeit, as always, I have an excuse: us journo students are forever busy. End of term was a mad rush to meet deadlines amidst my usual dilemma of computers crashing on me hours before deadline and my other clumsy antics. When I launched my site, with the champagne flowing, I had the brilliant idea of revamping it all over spring break. What we didn’t realise was our exams were straight after our break and typically two and a half weeks of my holiday have already vanished – so maybe you’ll have to wait until mid-August when I plan to finally have free time. Between recharging my...
Read MorePhotos: scarecrow
I found this scarecrow on a walk a couple of weeks ago. I went back to take a picture the following day and some thoughtless thugs had trashed it. Thankfully it’s been fixed, so I thought I’d share them with you. Happy Easter.
Read MoreCatherine Quinn’s tips for freelancing
‘Never say you’re a student journalist, ever’ was the advice given to us at the Centre for Journalism today by the freelancer Catherine Quinn. Why? Because it often ends up potential interviewees suddenly becoming too busy to help and leaving the soundtrack to my life being ‘Don’t hang up’ by The Orlons. I thought I’d share some other tips she gave us after talking to some journalism students at the NCTJ student council, who said they’d like some information on freelancing: - Quinn said that being a freelancer is the ‘ultimate sales job’. It’s 70% selling and 30% writing. - Different editors like different styles of pitching....
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