Sports journalism masterclass: 'Paid to do the thing I love - what a privilege'
John Gibson, who has been working at the Newcastle Evening Chronicle since 1966, last month won the Daily/Sunday Sports Journalist of the Year award at the Regional Press Awards. Here, ‘Gibbo', lets...
View ArticleMasterclass: TES editor Gerard Kelly
Since Gerard Kelly became editor of the Times Educational Supplement in 2008, tes.co.uk has won the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) award for Digital Product of the Year three years in a row....
View ArticleMasterclass: Freelancing in Tinseltown- make sure you charge $400 a day
Fancy plying your trade in the US of A? It is possible with careful planning and a bit of luck, freelancer Julie Moult writes from Los Angeles.I'd had itchy feet for some time before the grey London...
View ArticleTops tips on how to carry out a Fabulous A-lister interview
Beth Neil (@bethneil), celebrity editor at Fabulous magazine, was awarded interviewer of the year at the Society of British Press Awards earlier this year. Here, Beth shares the secrets to the perfect...
View ArticleUncovering Twitter's 'most shocking' sex offenders
We started this investigation when Mark Williams-Thomas approached us. He's been a criminologist and child protection expert for 20 years and used to be a police detective, so he's got a considerable...
View ArticleHow to make it to the top of a national at 28
Twenty-eight-year-old Archie Bland’s recent promotion to deputy editor of The Independent, makes him the youngest to hold this role in the paper’s history. The Indy claims he is also the youngest...
View ArticleHow to harness SEO and the keyword
Keywords, keywords, keywords. Everyone should by now know the importance of keywords and the potential increase in traffic they can bring to a website, but how much is enough and how much is just too...
View ArticleDavid Walsh: 'It was obvious to me Lance Armstrong was doping'
Walsh: 'A lot of people didn’t think it was appropriate to ask what were very necessary questions.'Sports reporters became 'fans with typewriters''I was the romantic who believed you could get to the...
View ArticleHow David Hencke exposed Whitehall tax avoidance scandal
David Hencke saw off competition from major news organisations to win Political Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for fledgling news website exaro. The judges described his...
View ArticleHow blogger Peter Jukes crowdfunded his way to cover the hacking trial
A blogger who secured more than £6,000 in funding from donors on the internet to live-tweet the hacking trial is planning a book on the affair.Peter Jukes has already written a book about the...
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