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Media Digest & The Daily Blot offer career kick-start

Media Digest now offers young writers the chance to get their work seen by a wide network of professionals, as it teams up with The Daily Blot. Read the full story

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Graduate gets job – via Twitter

Last week we wrote about the challenges facing graduates struggling to balance debts and the exploitative use of unpaid work experience placements in the media industry. Read the full story

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Illegal or not, will interns always miss out?

Illegal or not, will interns always miss out?

Last week we posted news on a report that concluded unpaid work experience placements – or internships, if you prefer to use more flattering terminology – are completely illegal under the Minimum Wage Act 1998. But all the reports in the world won’t make the media change its attitude to interns – or slaves, to use some honest nomenclature. Read the full story

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"The Daily Mail is being far too modest… the runaway success of the website owes very little to piggy-backing on 'the strengths of the newspaper'."


The Media Blog‘s Will Sturgeon credits Mail Online’s picture desk as the “engine room” of its booming growth after comScore named it the world’s biggest newspaper site.


(Source: The Media Blog)