Author Archives: Brittany

Lucky…

By Brittany | Published: Sunday, 20th November, 2011

I started my first day with a sense of trepidation… Unlike my usual organised self, I hadn’t visited the newspaper’s office before my internship started. Luckily, a drawling American noticed my indecision when I got off the train (I was eeny-meeny-miny-moing whether to go right or left) and gave me directions. “You see that crane [...]

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The last huzzah!

By Brittany | Published: Saturday, 5th November, 2011

Teachers, family, friends, esteemed guests and fellow journalists, This speech was possibly the hardest piece of writing I have had to do all year. After all, how could I do justice to the past year without making any style or grammar mistakes? And should I use the inverted pyramid style? Or go for a punchy [...]

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Interview with SA’s Sunday Mail Editor Megan Lloyd

By Brittany | Published: Tuesday, 4th October, 2011

As you walk into Megan Lloyd’s glass-walled office, you know you are in the presence of someone who has made it. A room with a view, one wall is covered with the front page of past Sunday Mails while every desk surface is hidden under three inches of paper. Megan Lloyd herself, the Sunday Mail [...]

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Afternoon Delight

By Brittany | Published: Tuesday, 13th September, 2011

Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight… For the past two days, I have volunteered at a community radio station down at Victor Harbor (a beach town about an hour out of rAdelaide). Now, while it hasn’t been as intense as my two week internship at the sunday paper, it certainly has been interesting [...]

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And that’s a wrap!

By Brittany | Published: Saturday, 10th September, 2011

My final two days passed in a whirlwind of learning curves, successes, failures and phone calls. Thursday night my sister had dragged me shopping, a horror all to its self. But on the upside, I was able to swagger into the office on Friday with lovely new shoes. So with my feet feeling rather pretty, [...]

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