Should you trust every site you visit? No, you shouldn’t, especially if they arrived in your email address, passing the spam filters and offering you an amazing experience if you give them your bank account number. Trusted websites will likely be noticed at first glance, but there is always more to look for. When going…
Up To Speed Journalism’s Founder Tom Hill gives careers advice on becoming a journalist in a new series of posts on the Up To Speed blog. We hope you find the advice helpful. Over the next few weeks we’ll be covering a range of topics including tips on how to write for print, online, radio,…
A graduate student on Up To Speed’s NCTJ course has been combining her academic knowledge with her journalism skills on a unique work placement. Lucy Woods, 21, has spent six weeks at Current Archaeology, where she has been working on its annual supplement, Digs Guide 2013. The placement comes six months after Lucy left the…
Whilst work experience was a little daunting, I was also looking forward to putting everything I have learnt at Up To Speed into practice. During my time at Perfect Wedding magazine, published by Immediate Media in Bristol, I was able to indulge my two favourite things: weddings and writing! Finally, I could write ‘touchy feely’…
By Tom Hill, Course Director and Founder, Up To Speed Journalism. Tip #2 Mimic Your Heroes The best writers read a lot, the best songwriters listen to a lot of music and the best film directors watch a lot of movies. And when they come to produce their first novels, songs, and films, they often…
To mark the end of the first decade of the new Millennium, Up To Speed ran a features writing competition open to students from university newspapers all over the UK. Robin Morgan, from Cardiff University’s Gair Rhydd, won the Third Prize of £50 with this entry. The Noughties: ‘Has it been a decade of despair…
To mark the end of the first decade of the new Millennium, Up To Speed ran a features writing competition open to students from university newspapers all over the UK. Marcus Greenslade from Reading University came second and won £100. Here’s his entry. “Has the Noughties been a decade of despair or the dawn of…
By Tom Hill, Course Director and Founder, Up To Speed Journalism. In the latest of our series of practical tips for people who want to succeed as reporters, I’m taking a look at one of the most common mistakes people make when they first start chasing stories. Tip #8 Don’t Rely On Email Effective communication with…
