Emma Gannon

Here's another official interview as part of my 'Career Chat' series. This week I am pleased to be interviewing Colin Campbell-Austin, Channel 4's People Development Manager. Here's some great pieces of advice for how you can kick-start your dream career in television.

EG: Hi Colin. Tell us a bit about...

Whether we like it or not, there is still a social stigma attached to online dating. It's something people feel slightly apprehensive about, maybe because they're often unsure of the correct 'internetiquette' of how to go about it properly. Even if people are regular, confident online-daters, it appears it's still...

Welcome to my new feature 'Career Chat' where I will be grabbing industry professionals for a coffee and a chinwag (or a quick email) about how to bag that dream job. I'll be picking their brains on what it takes to climb the ladder of success and how to stand...

Being an ex-English Literature student who can remember that stunned 'what now?' feeling as soon as the graduations robes were off, I thought back to what it felt like to not have anyone tell you how to get that dream job. With that in mind, I decided to ask Grace...

When I say the word 'diet' I desperately want to believe that is a word that symbolises an act of personal freewill, a word that is conjured up freely and solely by me. When I recently read up about the 'Ditching Dieting' campaign, it never properly struck me that there...

I have a confession, and this is it: I buy too many clothes. I will also admit that more often than not, I will buy lots of cheap clothes in one foul credit-crunching swoop. I will also buy something just because it's on sale. And yes, this means that sometimes...

When was the last time you visited the high street, and when was the last time you actually enjoyed the experience?

It only takes one episode of Mary Portas: Queen of Shops to bitterly inject with me with memories of the times I have sweated along Oxford Street only to...

It is widely and quite bluntly presumed that you are either creative, or you are not. To one person a lamppost can be the inspiration behind a thriller crime-scene novel set on that particular street-lit corner; and to some one else, it might just be a lamppost.

If someone sits...

One of my friends spends a lot of time in Rome. She (Sophia) is also known amongst our friendship group for bursting into energetic Italian in mid conversation. When she mentioned recently that I check out an Italian documentary she's been helping to work on, I politely agreed to watch...

I'm excited because today I got to interview one of my all-time favourite bloggers: The Frenemy. Being a manic-scroller-double-clicker and only truly comfortable speaking in 140 characters at a time, I usually scan blogs, but rarely properlyread them. However, when the perfect Hollywood stories of the really-rich-and-really-famous in Elle and...

Someone recently asked me if I could 'make' a viral video, as though it was something I could immediately produce, like a cup of instant coffee. As we know, 'viral' is something than happens, rather than something that just is.

According to this infographic, you are more...

Growing up in Devon, my younger sister and I would spend a lot of time outdoors. We would explore our overgrown garden, fall down badger holes, get stuck up trees and without a doubt, bring something inside from the wilderness to 'study', be it an odd shaped plant or an...

Fashion does not sit still for five minutes. This makes it a joy to watch, but a nightmare to keep up with. I've always been that person who would save up just enough money to buy something stylish (usually confirmed by my friend Grace who works undercover for the Fashion...

For some things there are simply no excuses. Getting too pissed on a work night and subjecting your poor colleagues to inhaling second-hand ethanol fumes whilst complaining about the phones ringing probably won't go down too well with the boss. Shimmying out of the window in nothing but a towel...

A topic that seems to be cropping up as of late in various forms is this idea of ownership. I'm not talking houses or cars, or something you purchase and then get a receipt for. I'm talking 'things' that aren't as obvious as the ownership of materialistic objects. More like...