I’m giving a careers talk on journalism at my old uni today. Any suggestions of good advice for wannabe journalists? What do people wish they’d been told whilst still a student?
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also am pretty sure Twitter is the only reason I've ever been published anywhere
social media truly is The Great Equaliser, which means that if you're not a middle class white cis straight person who's dad was an editor at the FT you have a better chance that an editor will pay attention to your pitch instead of being 1/500 random emails they get a day
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Did you post articles in other places beforehand? To showcase your work.
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no! i had only ever written for my student paper before i got commissioned. and pretty much ALL of the times i did, it was because i was either talking to an editor on twitter, or a writer on twitter flagged my pitch to an editor at their publication
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