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Digital dreams: my new online job at UBM

Posted in Health & lifestyle, Media, Previous employers, Writing samples on May 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »

At the end of March, I left my comfy position as a feature-writer at Progressive Digital Media and took up an online internship at UBM’s health magazine, Pulse. Since then I’ve picked up a host of new skills and polished some older ones too. I was confident writing news round-ups, but I was no Kathryn [...]

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Ones to watch: Parthian’s Bright Young Things authors

Posted in Books, Previous employers, tagged , , , , on September 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Bright young things can come from anywhere – is it time that we paid more attention to Parthian? Back in April I reported on the Welsh publisher’s awesome cover art for Bright Young Things, novels from authors under-30s. Now it has just emerged that one author, JP Smythe, has already been picked up by publishing [...]

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First Features: an insight into real-life feature

Posted in Previous employers, Writing samples, tagged , on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I spent two weeks with Katy Weitz’s agency, First Features, in January – and what an experience! I’ve never worked for an agency before, but Katy immediately got me onto the phone to some of her best clients. First Features helps people get their stories into national newspapers and magazines, so during the fortnight I [...]

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Bar reviews, drinksin.com

Posted in Previous employers, Writing samples, tagged , , , , , , on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In 2008/9 I was proud to contribute to the work of a global project called drinksin.com. The site’s a bank of bar reviews for the world’s best cities, and I wrote for the Reading and Dublin mini-sites. More recently, the company have created a World Cup iPhone app, which gives you a detailed run-down of [...]

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