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Matthew Edwards is a soon-to-be English Literature graduate studying at Swansea University. He has worked with The Waterfront as a features editor for a year. He co-edits Huttstuff, an independent blog on video gaming news and culture. I will be graduating this year, and I hope to gather an online portfolio of my work, especially […]

It was great to meet Chris Wheal at the NUJ student workshop in Cardiff and listen to his knowledge and advice on law and ethics in journalism. In particular, his views on the Leveson Enquiry and the interview with Rupert Murdoch conducted in April. In response to Murdoch’s suggestion at the Inquiry that a employee […]

You’ve acquired some new skills – so what’s stopping you using them?  Unlikely though it may seem to people outside the business, journalists are creatures of habit. Admittedly not all of them are good, legal or healthy, but they are habits for all that. And part of the process of acquiring them involves having some […]

Jenny Sims tells a roomful of people how networking at the NUJ courses in Wales has led to a new venture in her journalistic life. I hate public speaking – even for three minutes. So it was with some reluctance I agreed to Anna Roberts’ email appeal. Project Manager of NUJ Training Wales, she was […]

Skillset Academi+ have launched their first short courses for creative media professionals.

Check out their course calendar for information and dates for the Marketing, Accountancy, Pro Tools, Digital Workflows and Film Production courses.

I suspect the above is a question that far too many journalists have had cause to ask themselves in recent months as the recession continues to take a heavy toll on our industry. Conversations with friends and colleagues in the print and broadcast sectors have tended to follow a depressingly familiar trend, when no sooner […]