Hey just got back from the Journalism event hosted by Blake Welton, a former UCLan Post Grad student.
The basis of the session was to introduce us to different sections of journalism such as editing and subbing. One of the main discussions was about how to cut articles down and knowing how to do that without changing the content or the meaning.
Since leaving UCLan, Blake has worked for many newspapers, reporting mainly on the sport, but he currently works for the Preston Citizen, as well as his own fanzine magazine, Invisible, which is for Preston North End supporters. Blake describes it as, “For the fans, by the fans.”
Most of the session was based on Blake using his own experiences in the media industry to some outline of the issues journalists face, whilst the rest was about us looking at how our careers may be dominated by such problems.
Nevertheless, it was also helpful to those who aren’t journalists, but are looking to writing for specialist magazines and journals.
Unfortunately, there’s no pics or interviews from this one, but I’ll be at the Detox Night tonight, so I hope to see quite a few of you there and that review will be up tomorrow!
Tata. x
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