Category Archives: Jschool 2011

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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my vim & vigour

By Teresa | Published: Friday, 11th November, 2011

Of all the weeks in all the weeks of this year, why this week? Why was my vim & vigour so low? Beginning the week with a broken 4-hours of sleep didn’t help. I could have done a lot more if my vim & vigour was at even a reasonable level. A voice (a very [...]

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In the land of newsqueens

By Teresa | Published: Wednesday, 9th November, 2011

Three days ago I came to News Queensland. It’s a wide and bustling but friendly land. I will only have time to navigate part of this land. But that’s okay. I’m staying in the Courier-Mail area. Like going France for two weeks and never leaving Paris. But who wants to see a whole country express [...]

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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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Goodbye to Investigative Journalism and the ‘h’ in Verandah LINDA BRADY INTERVIEW

By Teresa | Published: Sunday, 23rd October, 2011

Many moons ago, a young, adventurous journalism graduate from Rockhampton set off to see the world. First stop, an internship in Canberra’s corridors of power, was disappointing. “The whole political reporting gig left me cold. “It was such a pretentious and contrived piece of theatre and the reporters took themselves far too seriously.” So she [...]

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