By Japan’s peculiar Yakuza mafia magazine industry is explored in this year’s XCity. For XCity Plus, Marigold Warner and Tim Gunn present the story of its short-lived equivalent in the US: Mobster Times. “For us, it’s an angle. It’s not a passion: it’s a way to make money,” says Frank DiMatteo, a
By Stem cells, brain science and distant galaxies: An interview with research media officer Ryan O’Hare
Ex-city student Ryan O’Hare (Science, 2013) is a research media officer at Imperial College London. He sat down with Jasper Hart to talk science journalism, communications and muddling up time zones. Did you always want to be journalist? If you weren’t a journalist what would you be? I initially wanted to be
By The Intern Diaries: Journalists spill the beans on embarrassing internships
XCity Plus has put together seven stories to make you glad you aren’t an intern. Stevie Martin, holiday cover at Shortlist and Stylist and freelancer “I BCC’d everyone at Bauer Media; Grazia, Empire, Heat, Closer, asking where the toilet was. It also went to all the radio brands too, like KISS
By “Honoured” Sophie Barnes wins XCity Award for Grenfell Tower reporting
Sophie Barnes (Investigative, 2012) has won the 2018 XCity Award for her reporting on the Grenfell Tower disaster and investigations into fire safety, welfare reform and the effects of the benefit cap on vulnerable families. The deputy news editor of Inside Housing was chosen as winner from a list of
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