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Perfect Pitch

How to pitch to: Chat

13 August 2008

Editor Gilly Sinclair gives her tips on pitching to the women's real-life weekly

How to pitch to: Theme

6 August 2008
How to pitch to: Body and Soul

23 July 2008

How to pitch to: Front

30 July 2008
How to pitch to: BBC Focus

16 July 2008

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How I did it

At home with Pete Doherty: how I got access to the troubled star

14 August 2008

This month, Loaded offered a Hello!-style photo shoot inside the home of the famously shy and troubled Pete Doherty. Senior staff writer Jeff Maysh reveals how he opened the doors to Casa Doherty

My scoop opened floodgates to a tide of angry readers

7 August 2008

Reporter Jon Welch tells Méabh Ritchie the story behind his scoop on Government plans to flood the Norfolk Broads. The story was highly commended for the scoop of the year award in the Press Gazette Regional Press Awards

The tribulations of covering Entwistle murder trial from US

31 July 2008
Chickens come home to roost on an RSPCA-approved farm

17 July 2008

How I called full-time on football talent scout swindle

24 July 2008
How I lap danced my way to exposé of city strip-club boss

10 July 2008

Journalism Training

Journalists 'lack basic numeracy skills needed to report on business'

1 October 2008

Too many journalists lack the basic numeracy skills required to report on business and the economy, according to a group of senior broadcasters, financial experts and journalism tutors gathered at a Radio Academy debate in London ...

Mapping out a new way to report the UK

19 August 2008

“Reporting the UK” is an important phrase for us journalism educators in the BBC.

So bored with deadly dull target readers

11 August 2008
Let news from around the planet find you

28 July 2008

Teacher’s pet or pal?

7 August 2008
Foreign Bureaux cut-backs are in favour of low-cost kids with laptops.

14 July 2008

Legal Briefing

Child sex-abuse cases: Keeping reports safe

25 July 2008

Méabh Ritchie looks at the best way to approach a sensitive story about victims of child sex abuse, and what you can and can’t write

How to challenge a court reporting restriction: the essential guide for journalists

11 July 2008

Speaking at the Press Gazette Media Law conference, PA legal editor Mike Dodd urged journalists to challenge unreasonable and unnecessary court orders. Here he shows how to do it.