By Striking up an unusual friendship with an England international, being mistaken for a soccer star in China, and attending World Cup finals – that’s just some of the ups and downs of working as The Guardian’s London football correspondent. Ex-City student Dominic Fifield (Newspaper, 1999) talks to Katie Burton about life
XCity Plus catches up with Nicholas Coleridge to talk dirty martinis and Vogue covers
XCity Plus caught up with Nicholas Coleridge, the former managing director of Condé Nast Britain. For 26 years he oversaw the production of some of the country’s most famous glossy magazines including Vogue, Tatler and GQ. Coleridge is now chairman of the Victoria and Albert Museum – where we met
Meet the 65-year-old barrister swapping the law courts for City journalism
It’s not unusual for City’s journalism courses to attract those who have spent a few years in the working world. Many people leave university and go straight into a job before realising that journalism is what they want to do. But this year, one man has taken this a step
In defence of Twitterphobic journalists
On day one of the Magazine MA at City you are now instructed to set up a Twitter profile and craft an eye catching tweet. Of course, for many journalists Twitter is crucial. It provides a means to track news, find stories and show-off (sorry – distribute work). But there
