Ella Walker

The fact we were nibbling peanut butter on toast and reading the label on the Lurpack, not the Sunday supplements, should have been a sign.

The chat was magazines, specifically: which ones would you say you read if you were asked in an interview?

In a house full of journalists,...

When it comes to magazines, I always start from the back. Not only do they seem somehow weightier that way, but starting at the front you have to wade through 30 pages of ads, a contents page (dull, dull, dull...) and an editor's letter (these are almost always skippable, especially...

One of my favourite things to do is finding out how the hell my favourite journalists managed to wrangle themselves a job.

I'm always scouring blogs and scrolling through Twitter bios to track down the definitive route into writing and -- *cough* -- how to get paid for it.

So,...

At my house, an underappreciated Cambridge terrace filled up with me and two boys (also graduate journos), talk is always turning to the fact we've pitched ourselves into an industry that is having a bit of a flail.

Thanks to this little ditty on Press Gazette last week, the...

The Hour on BBC2 is very misleading.

Upsettingly so. Watching Romola Garai wear pencil skirts and chat-back at her superiors looking both incredibly chic and as if it is the 'done' thing, is the stuff of journalism dreams.

Ben Whishaw's skinny, earnest frame, Dominic West's slicked-back charm and Anna...