Featured speaker:
Tom Bradby

Political editor,
ITV News

Featured speaker:
Toby Young

Associate Editor,
The Spectator
Political columnist,
The Sun on Sunday

Featured speaker:
Roy Greenslade

Professor of journalism,
Columnist, The Guardian/Evening Standard

Featured speaker:
Peter Beaumont

Foreign Affairs Editor,
The Observer

Featured speaker:
Jenny Kleeman

Journalist and
documentary-maker

Featured speaker:
Helen Lewis

Assistant editor / columnist,
The New Statesman

Featured speaker:
Nick Wood

Director, Political Tours

Featured speaker:
Camilla Long

Columnist,
The Sunday Times

Featured speaker:
Simon Hattenstone

Features Writer,
The Guardian

Featured speaker:
Tim Ingham

Editor, Music Week

Featured speaker:
Amber Elliott

Political editor, Total Politics

Featured speaker:
James Ball

Data journalist, The Guardian

Featured speaker:
Belinda Goldsmith

Global head of editorial learning,
ThomsonReuters

Featured speaker:
Andrew Testa

Photojournalist

Featured speaker:
Amelia Gentleman

Social affairs special projects.
The Guardian

Featured speaker:
James Fair

Environment editor,
BBC Wildlife

Featured speaker:
Sean Coughlan

Education correspondent, BBC News

Featured speaker:
James Eder

Co-founder and director,
Beans Group

Featured speaker:
Kelly Rose Bradford

Freelance journalist

Featured speaker:
Dave Lee

Technology reporter,
BBC News

Featured speaker:
Jo Payton

Freelance journalist
and broadcaster

Featured speaker:
Saba Salman

Freelance social
affairs journalist

Featured speaker:
Lucy Jolin

Freelance journalist
and author

Featured speaker:
Rhian Jones

Journalist apprentice

Featured speaker:
Janet Murray

Education journalist

Featured speaker:
Louise Tickle

Freelance journalist

We’re not going to lie…getting into journalism isn’t easy. It’s always been a competitive industry, but in a tough economic climate, getting a foot in the door has never been so hard. So how can you make sure you stand out from the crowd?

So You Want To Be A Journalist is your chance to find out. This unique, one-day conference brings together top industry professionals from newspaper, magazine, online and broadcast journalism. They’ll give you the inside track  – warts and all – on the skills, attributes and experience you need to break into the profession.

About Us

So you want to be a journalist is the brainchild of two national freelancers who both retrained in journalism from other careers…

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Video/Imagery

See video and photographs from our April 2012 event, courtesy of attending media students from Bournemouth University…

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Venue

City University: located in the heart of London, within easy reach of several central underground stations and just a few stops from the West End…

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Competition

Exclusive competition – become a part of an elite squad of StudentBeans writers and get your work published on StudentBeans.com…

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