A couple of you have been asking me about media work experience recently. Here is a blog post I created last year that I hope will inspire you. Getting work in the media is hard…really hard. However, with creative thinking and a bit of nerve you can get a shoe in the door somewhere. You can’t avoid the fact that in the media more than maybe any other sector, it’s who you know that gets you access. So first stop is that family friend, brother, sister, aunt or uncle.. get them to put in a word for you as early as possible. I’m a teacher now but in another life I worked in the media and got there by seeking out as much work experience as possible, I was lucky enough to end up with a job at Radio 1 but it wasn’t easy to come by and involved a lot of working for free, a bit of being shouted at and many, many early morning starts (like 3am) The first bit of real work experience I got was during my A levels working for a publishing company in London that wrote magazin...
