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Graduating

I graduated from PMA on Friday. I guess that makes me a fully qualified journalist now, or something. I still feel as though I have a lot to learn. It was quite strange to stumble home after celebrating on Friday night with no nagging feeling of needing to be at my desk studying, or practising [...]

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Eye on the prize

Well since July 5th I have written somewhere in the vicinity of 50 news stories, five features, subbed innumerable articles as well as spending about an hour and a half each day working on my shorthand (I’m not getting better very quickly). Of those 55 stories, I have had to resubmit many of them several [...]

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The essential Martin Salter

This is another piece that I wrote on the course… A river runs through Martin Salter’s life. It’s the Kennet. A keen angler, he bought his first house on its banks so that he could fish from his garden. The Kennet also brought him into politics “Reading council banned fishing and I thought that was [...]

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News journalism and Ad Sales – fairly similar

Most journalists, and most media sales people exist in a kind of tenuous harmony with each other. Journalists hate sales because they muddy their integrity. Salespeople don’t like journos because they seem to be a drain on on company finances. I’ve now done both and am beginning to think that they are a lot more [...]

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