First-year students at La Trobe University have started blogging en masse. Here’s where they’re up to.
Passionate about women’s rights and gender issues? Want to gain experience as a writer? Check out the opportunity that The Safe World International Foundation are giving you!
Cass Savellis attended the Walkley Media Pass Student Industry Day on Friday, at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre in Melbourne. It was jam-packed with industry professionals who shared their tips and experiences they’ve gained over their careers. She took their advice and turned it into a list of significant freelance journalist pointers.
First-year students at La Trobe University have started blogging en masse. Here’s where they’re up to.
Passionate about women’s rights and gender issues? Want to gain experience as a writer? Check out the opportunity that The Safe World International Foundation are giving you!
Cass Savellis attended the Walkley Media Pass Student Industry Day on Friday, at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre in Melbourne. It was jam-packed with industry professionals who shared their tips and experiences they’ve gained over their careers. She took their advice and turned it into a list of significant freelance journalist pointers.
Hear from founding editor (and now La Trobe University academic), Erdem Koc and our current editor, Joely Mitchell, about the aims and purpose of upstart — the magazine for emerging journalists.
First-year students at La Trobe University have started blogging en masse. Here’s where they’re up to.
Passionate about women’s rights and gender issues? Want to gain experience as a writer? Check out the opportunity that The Safe World International Foundation are giving you!
Cass Savellis attended the Walkley Media Pass Student Industry Day on Friday, at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre in Melbourne. It was jam-packed with industry professionals who shared their tips and experiences they’ve gained over their careers. She took their advice and turned it into a list of significant freelance journalist pointers.
The 2011 Ossie Awards for Student Journalism winners were announced at the annual Journalism Education Association of Australia conference in Adelaide this week.
In the latest episode of ‘Behind the magazine’, Katharina Hackler interviews upstart’s heart and soul, editor Ashley Fritsch, about her role over the past semester, her passion for journalism and her love for her country newspaper.
For the past year, Sean Power has been giving up his Sunday mornings to volunteer for Vision Australia Radio, hosting a youth-run program. Katharina Hackler chats to him about his work and love for radio.
Sofia Monkiewicz is the latest editorial member to be put in the upstart spotlight. She speaks to Katharina Hackler about her role, enthusiasm for arts journalism and her dream of becoming a theatre critic.
Are you currently studying journalism or media? Do you want to liaise with the industry’s finest? Then enter the Media Super Student Award for excellence in student journalism.
Zoë Foster is an ever-present voice in the world of beauty and dating, but who is the person behind the persona? Penny Evangelou sits down with the quirky queen of the glossies to talk about all things blogging, beauty and boys.
This week we welcome a new editorial team at upstart, all of whom bring very different experiences and enthusiasms to the magazine. We hope you like them. And we want you to pitch your stories to them.
How did four La Trobe students turn their university assignments into ABC Radio National pieces? Find out here.
Entries for the 2010 Ossie Awards for student journalism are now open.
The ‘Tom wants a job’ campaign is over. Tom has been offered a job as a junior reporter at Crikey.
For those students who missed out on the event last week, Sharon Green reports on the key discussions from the MediaPass Student Industry Day in Melbourne.
Had any pieces run on upstart lately? Think that assignment you scored an ‘A’ for might be up there with your best work? Then maybe you should think about entering the Media Super Student Journalist of the Year awards. But get moving, your submission has to be in by 3 May.
Not only did he survive an encounter with lions and tigers – Tom Maclean also learnt how to shoot TV news stories and even met the German Chancellor while completing his degree as at the Missouri School of Journalism as a La Trobe exchange student.
Australia Day; it’s all about beaches, barbecues and beverages. But for Nisa Terzi, amongst all that green and gold, January 26 is also a day of Turkish delights.
The Australian dollar is still climbing. Whilst economists are talking about trade deficits and advantageous foreign investment, Ryan Jon discusses the impact our strengthening currency may have on student life.
Despite the record heat, upstart has survived the festive break and made it back for the start of a new year. It’s the dawn of 2010, a year we hope holds plenty of exciting developments in store for emerging journalists.
