Last week, five of us left the comfort of the Magazine Laboratory (aka. MagLab) to go to London for the PTC New Journalist Awards with our course tutor, Jane.
Lottie, me, Amy, Ollie and Jess: the MagLab five at the PTC awards.
Whilst this not only gave us the opportunity to put on our gladrags, rub shoulders with journalistic types and have a fancy lunch, we also put our Twittering skills into practice and attempted to Twitter the day’s happenings – and got a little confused about hashtags and pipes in the process.
The day kicked off with three masterclasses with some of the industry’s top people.
- Shortlist’s editorial director, Phil Hilton and Vogue’s acting associate editor, Celia Duncan gave us some top tips for entering into the magazine industry (including the need to look good when under pressure and panic quietly).
How to walk in high-heels (and do well in magazines) by Lysanne Currie. Photo by valeyoshino.
- Skymag’s editor Lysanne Currie and Redwood Publishing’s creative director, Paul Kurzeja gave us an insight into the customer magazine industry (Lysanne also proved it’s possible to walk in extremely high-heels - hers were about 7-inches high. Impressive. A talking point at lunch).
- Management Today’s editor, Matthew Gwyther and United Business Media’s group director, Adrian Barrick revealed they both came from Woolwich where the first UK McDonalds was opened (as well as discussing the importance of web-based media). Interestingly, Ollie used to do stapling for Adrian Barrick; unfortunately he didn’t remember him or his stapling skills.
After exhausting the supply of nibbles and wine in the foyer, we proceeded to the ‘ballroom’ for lunch and the presentation of the awards.
Lunch by candlelight.
Check out some of the photos displayed on the Flickr feed on the right.
Photo by valeyoshino used under the Creative Commons Licence and is available on Flickr.
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