SEO AND NEWS WRITING
Let’s talk about SEO and good practice for SEO in news site maintenance and development.
DUSTING OFF THE INTERVIEWER COBWEBS
I’ve been putting myself in the way of something that I find fairly scary these past few weeks. Interviewing. I’ve been dusting off the cobwebs on my social skills, getting out there, and ingratiating myself on the public at large.
ON BEING AN EDITOR: DONE AND DUNNING-KRUGER
Recently, as part my MA course, I was involved in a mass group project intended to simulate a day in a newsroom. It lead to some interesting discoveries about myself and my level of readiness for the field.
RETURNING TO UNIVERSITY AS A MATURE STUENT: REDEFINING TIME AND PLACE
When I started my undergrad in 2009, we hated mature students. They were so clever. So confident. So fashionable. So fully formed as people. Now that I’ve returned to university as a mature master’s student at the decrepit age of 31, I’m sometimes afraid to open my mouth.
FINDING YOUR ONBOARDING POINT IN HISTORY
This week I came face to face with one of the biggest fears I have in my ongoing (and hopeful) career change to journalism. That is, building a knowledge base and having reasonable confidence in it to the point that I can write authoritatively on a news subject. Let’s explore that.