We have just been asked to do an exercise where we pick out magazines and newspapers that we would like to work for from the partners of Catch22. These are the companies that give Catch 22 the money to run the course in exchange for getting one or two of us (the students) as an intern when the course has run its course.

One paper that I would like to work in on the sports pages is The Mirror. I admire the sports coverage on The Mirror so it would be more than I am hoping for. It's main competitor is TheSun,b it has a circulation of 3.5m readers daily and is owned by, and is the flagship for, Trinity Mirror, a huge conglomerate of national and and less well known papers.

Even more exciting would be if I could work on Q Magazine. I love music and writing about music so this would be really cool. They are a part of Bauer Media which is a giant of publishing company who own FHM, MOJO and Empire magazine. They have so many publications I wouldn't be able to say who was their Flagship magazine. They also have apparently lost count of how much they sell because I couldn't find any circulation figures on their website.

Another one that I found that would be a great magazine to work for because I love football would be Four Four Two. They also have a football website which is good quality and well written. Their competitors include Team Talk.com and The BBC Sports website. Four Four Two is owned by Haymarket who own a LOT of publications and websites. So many that I have lost count. They are also too busy to keep count of details like their circulations. They also do magazines for the BBC as well as publications like Sports Car.

Today in Catch 22 we were asked to interview another person in a Q and A style who is a part of Catch 22. I descided to ask Rianna some short questions


Thirty seconds in the mind of Rianna:
How old you?
18

What do you think of Catch 22?
It's absolutely brilliant. It's a great opportunity.

Do you like Jam?
Yep

How much do you like jam?
50%

What is your favorite time of day?
The night time.


Here is a picture of Rianna along with her favorite video:

First Blog

Hi Everybody My name is Joseph Wolfson, I am a journalism student at Catch 22 magazine.
www.catch22mag.com here are some examples of student blogs from the past at Catch22http://www.catch22mag.com/academy/student-blogs
I'm blogging at last!  I'm completely new to this but I will give it a go non the less. It took ages, I had to jump through many hoops to get here. I thought that my yahoo e mail account wouldn't work so I spent ages trying to create a google one but my yahoo address worked in the end so I feel releived now.
I am supposed to link two websites that I have found useful so here they are;
www.bbc.co.uk; and www.guardian.co.uk both of which have been invaluable on the morning feature meetings, which, by the way i really enjoy. It has proved to be a tough but fun skill to learn.

This is a video which inspired me to write my feature. It is the legendary one love peace concert where Bob Marley made the two warring leaders of the political parties shake hands above his head.


www.twitter.com Which I only joined as part of the course but I am vowing to get more acquainted with. If only because I couldn't get any decent ideas from it.