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You know something's getting to you when..


You have your first Catch 22 dream. I don't mean a fish dream like the one Yossarian has in  Joesph Heller's Catch 22, but a dream about the Catch 22 Academy...what can it mean? And no answers from Freud...I already know what you'll say about it!

Catch 22 Media partners

Catch 22 is linked with various different media partners and if we are all good boys and girls in the Catch 22 office we will get to do an internship with one of them. It would be a dream to do an internship with....

Bauer Media

With over 80 radio, magazine, TV and online UK media brands, which includes Mojo, Q, heat, GRAZIA, Closer, and FHM, it would be silly not to want to do work experience with Bauer. Bauer Media reaches over nineteen million UK adults across multiple media channels. Bauer owns flagship celebrity weekly Closer which has a weekly circulation of 526,713 and competes with OK! magazine.

My dream placement would be with Mojo, a mag targeted at a predominantly male and affluent audience and with me being a 22 year-old female with a mountain of university debt behind me I think it's a perfect match. So why Mojo? It is now the biggest-circulation paid-for music magazine with an average monthly circulation of 98,484, edging just in front of Bauer's other music magazine Q. In recent news Bauer has been shortlisted to acquire the BBC's £100m magazine portfolio along with three other bidders.

The Economist Group

Brands include the Economist Online, Economist Intelligence Unit, Economist Conferences, Economist Corporate Network and Intelligent Life. The Economist is a weekly international news, politics and business publication like no other. It is printed in five countries, worldwide circulation is now over one million, and The Economist is read by more of the world's political and business leaders than any other magazine. It's competitors include Time and News week.

Why The Economist? It presents worldwide news and politics in an intelligent and thought-provoking way, plus the grammar, punctuation and vocabulary are the epitome of an excellent writing style.

Recently The Economist launched it's first iPhone and iPad apps, setting a target of reaching 1 million subscribers in the next three years.

Conde Nast

Conde Nast is an international magazine publishing company with heavyweights Vogue, Glamour, GQ and Vanity Fair all under their belt. Vogue is Conde Nast's flagship publication with an average circulation of  220,000 a month and competing in the market against Harper's Bazaar.

My favourite Conde Nast publication is easily Wired magazine, covering a broad range of topics and providing an insight into how science and technology shape our world. Conde Nast recently launched iPad editions of December issues of Vogue and Wired.

 

30 Seconds In The Mind Of...

Jermaine Haughton, West Ham fanatic and fellow cohort here at the Catch 22 Academy gives me a glimpse into his everyday life...

So Jermaine, what's your guilty pleasure?

Hannah Montana, I don't know why but for some reason I like it.

You're on Britain's Got Talent what do you do to impress Piers?

Oh that's an easy one I'll just show them my football skills.

You're on death row, let's not get into why, but what's your last meal?

Oooh a big steak, a t-bone steak and a mountain of ice cream with each layer a different flavour, and a nice cool drink something like champagne.

What's your most embarrassing moment?

There's so many, where do I start? There's the one where I got off with a midget, I was quite drunk, understandably. That's the safest embarrassing moment I can go for.

What's your biggest regret?

Probably getting off with the midget.

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Website: www.facebook.com

Song:

West Ham - I'm forever blowing bubbles

Youtube clip: The Peckham Terminator

Uh Oh, I'm still not getting used to these deadlines!

Uh Oh, I'm still not getting used to these deadlines!

As you have probably guessed my name is Chloe (yes I wasn't trying to fool you or bluff with my blog title, that would be extremely silly, and I'm rather glad that my name begins with a C otherwise it would not have worked as well. Cheers Ma and Pa). Anyway I've digressed and I've got a deadline looming so...what's this all about?

Well I'm an aspiring journalist and I'm currently sitting in the warmth of the Catch 22 offices at the Bernie Grants Arts Centre where the Catch 22 Academy is based. I am halfway through the course; a jam-packed 12-week programme that teaches young and aspiring journalists (who may lack experience but make up for it with passion) about what it really takes to cut the mustard in the journo world.

I've learnt so much I feel like my brain is about to blow up: Interview techniques, transcribing, court reporting, how to write and pitch feature ideas, most of all it has taught me that almost anyone can write but if you don't have the determination to succeed then you might be sent packing, Lord Sugar style.

By packing loads into the course and giving us a chance to sample many different areas of journalism it gives us a good idea of what we might like to do and highlights our strengths and weaknesses and by providing you with the tools to succeed it really boosts your confidence and motivates you in a way that this man would be proud of:

 

So where does it all go from here? Well I'm currently writing my feature for the Catch-22 magazine which will come out in Spring but before then expect to see lots more from the catch-22 office on here and maybe one day I'll be as big as Tony Wilson, journalist, broadcaster, Factory records owner and also the man who discovered these guys:

"Do what you're doing, say what you're saying....Sounds good to me"