FREELANCE journalist Anne Wollenberg specialises in entertainment, technology and workplace issues and also works on more general or 'real life' features.
She writes for newspapers and a mixture of consumer, trade and customer magazines. As a result, she says that “working” has involved "interviewing everyone from members of the Lost cast to a woman whose husband is impotent."
Anne is a fellow member at JournoBiz and I know I speak for more members there when I say that her success in her freelance career, just 12 months in, is an inspiration.
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SO you think life on a local paper is just about flower shows and lost dogs?
On some days you may be right – especially as regional titles are increasingly turning to ‘community’ news in an attempt to boost flagging sales.
But any aspiring journalist who turns their nose up at their local paper is not giving the ranks of hugely talented staff working in the regions their due.
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