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50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (September 25, 2023)
I’ve had cause to consider aging recently, for a few reasons. It was my birthday ten days ago, but mostly because we returned to the UK to spend more…
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50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (September 18, 2023)
Returning to the UK with kids after 15 years abroad is as close as I’ll ever get to time travelling back to my youth. There are few things that remind…
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50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (September 11, 2023)
Does anything beat writing longhand into an unlined page? Page upon page of perfect blankness, an unsullied field of snow awaiting footprints, a smooth…
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40 calls for journalism/writing pitches (September 5, 2023)
A month into our UK return/relocation and one thing that struck me: where are all the bugs? Sitting outside on a summer evening in a garden beneath a…
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50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (August 28, 2023)
A reporter for a local newspaper recently misquoted a farmer, who told the reporter that “30 sows and pigs ended up in the river floating downstream…
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50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (August 22, 2023)
As we prepare to drive to a funeral - three generations of us - I consider the changes. In the beginning, birthday parties, celebrations of survival…
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James Durston
50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (August 14, 2023)
No messing about today. Calls for pitches below. — CALL FOR #PITCHES: I'm looking to assign an on-the-ground story from Maui/Lāhainā for @Voxdotcom that…
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