Beth Kirkbride
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Made it into a Taylor Swift Wikipedia entry, so I can die happy now
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I just got rejected from my dream job!!!! Whoo!!!!
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me: *has small inconvenience*
me: i guess the only solution is To Die
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'Olay?'
‘Olay.’
The Fault In Our Sombreros.
Nacho average love story.
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So, um, I wrote a rather personal thing that I've been trying to write for a while, mostly because y'know, closure.
NEWSPAPERS AND ORANGE JUICE: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN SOMEONE SAYS THEY DON’T WANT TO MARRY YOU?
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As a music editor my word is obviously gospel, Niall Horan's Heartbreak Weather is the album of 2020*, heard it here first
*excluding folklore OFC
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🚨 personal news!! 🚨 I'm going to be joining the Sheffield Star as Audience Editor from next month! 🥳
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Raising a glass to being paid for my first four figure commission 🥳 pre-publication and all 🥂
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Nothing ruined my uni experience more than the person who pointed out it was very possible I'd slept in the same bed as Boris Johnson
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Saw Elvis this time last week and honestly? Haven't stopped thinking about it since. Masterpiece feels like an understatement
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Not sure anyone particularly cares but since I've finished my 2022 Goodreads challenge, here are the best of the 31/30 books I read this year
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"I can give you the 37p if that helps?"
as someone who works in retail, I can assure you I don't give a shit either way mate
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🚨 personal news 🚨
I did my first freelance shift with OK! today and it was more than OK — it was super fun 🥳
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when u just want to be a rock god but your dad makes you go to church instead of band practice
http://t.co/obmpCyq0hM
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🚨 personal news 🚨 finally I get to do a positive one of these! I've been asked to do some freelance shifts after a trial shift today 🥳
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Some thoughts on writing for free:
When I started out aged 16-17, I wrote for free for a number of great blogs and websites, all of which were unpaid.
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Relationship tip: only text back once every four years so your fella learns to appreciate you as much as he does the World Cup 👍
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The Indie had over 30,000 views last month. I know that's not a lot compared to most mainstream outlets but it makes me so happy to see how much the site has grown in the middle of a global pandemic 🎉
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Do you want a list of journalism/media jobs NOT IN LONDON in your inbox every Sunday? Then subscribe to my FREE newsletter here:
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Guess you officially have to listen to my opinion now?
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"Men might find you too intimidating to date if you write about them", have to say, not particularly bothered about that 🤣 having Taylor Swift energy is my new goal in life
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Just got the biggest commission of my writing career to date, looking at the sum of money someone wants to pay me to write words like
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just got the best pitch rejection ever?? the editor told me how my idea could be better and then gave me suggestions for where else to pitch?? what a legend??
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I think it's genuinely scandalous that universities can offer journalism degrees without informing prospective applicants that the industry-standard (in the UK) is the NCTJ.
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The Indiependent has honestly enabled me to meet so many amazing talented young writers, its mad to think a blog I started on Tumblr in 2014 has snowballed into a full blown media outlet with 300+ contributors / editors and 4,000+ published articles
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Just at a conference with Lily Collins, no big deal 💁🏻♀️
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does anyone else write to-do lists with 'reply to John's email' 'reply to Sarah's email' or am I just strange
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asked my dad to look over my application for ~a thing~ and he said "why have you said you manage a team of 650+ contributors and 25+ editors?"
erm maybe because I DO, Dad? We really be out here running independent media organisations from our childhood bedrooms since 2k14 x
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He literally looks like that creepy uncle that tries to grope you at a family wedding
http://t.co/c29fdKy3lx
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It's only taken 6 years and 10 months but my mum just said that The Indiependent is "quite impressive" 🥺 what a day
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"It looks like the kind of fridge that Don Draper would pull a beer out of after cheating on his wife."
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I don't mean to brag but I've laid a 68-page magazine in 48 hours, do you understand the PATIENCE required to use InDesign for that length of time??
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Every time a famous person engages with The Indie I am shook that it's a website I set up when I was 17 in my bedroom in my parents' house lol, cheers, sons crying
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I moved into the new house today and it's already looking pretty damn good if I must say so myself!
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I think its really important to talk about failures on here as well as 🚨 personal news 🚨, especially as someone with a fairly substantial platform... literally every idea I had this week got rejected... but hey ho, we'll try again next week 🤷🏻♀️
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I'm sorry for Captain Tom's family, I really am, but commemorating an individual that was 100 when he died, after a family holiday during a global pandemic, when hundreds of people have lost loved ones is ... not the one
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I can't believe this is a thing I actually did in the middle of a global pandemic
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a small thing I try and do as an editor if I think a pitch has legs but isn't one for us / is similar to something we've already run is point the contributor in the direction of another outlet that I think it would fit and today I got an email from someone who did just that! yay
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nice legs daisy dukes makes a man go - sorry but youre going to have to go home & change thats inappropriate for school, boys are distracted
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Love getting Facebook reminders of the time my bedroom looked like a Vote Leave campaign
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not me getting a positive response from a *dream* publication within 24 hours 🥺
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🚨Today's my first day as Audience Editor at the Sheffield Star!🚨
Got a story? You can reach me on beth.kirkbride
@jpress
.co.uk
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Eek!! It's mine!! New year, new house!!
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Quarter of a million views and over 110,000 new users on The Indie in the last year 🥺 so proud of the whole team
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Just gonna put this out here while we are talking about men being problematic but there are so many women I know who have reply guys who respond to our tweets with a weird level of overfamiliarity and it's fucking exhausting TBH
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I've been running The Indiependent for 8 (!!) years now and it's mad how many people want to write for our non existent Sports section
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if you read a good article, tweet it! you never know how sharing someone else's work may make their day (esp true if they're an early career stage journo)
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I love getting emails asking if people can do work experience at The Indie and I have to politely explain its run out of my childhood bedroom lmao
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PSST I dont know who needs to hear this but you don't need to do a £150 course to be a freelance journalist. You can literally just be one.
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nah why have 1.3K people liked a tweet about me not getting a job at NME 😭
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Wanted to write this for a while, finally found the words.
FKA twigs is right — anyone can be the victim of abuse:
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Mad to think 3 years ago I was having CBT because I physically couldn't leave my university room due to anxiety and now I'm being asked to go on podcasts and radio shows??? Make it make sense
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What's the worst rejection line to get from an editor? Mine is "I'm not sure this is that interesting", big OOFT
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My boyfriend (who I live with) tested positive for Covid several hours ago, and I've just been hit with this lovely cocktail of confusing notifications?
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Taking the wholesome vibe into 2021, like this for a compliment (may regret doing this considering there is over 14,000 of you)
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If I started a newsletter called The Peak District about being a twenty something northerner trying to break into journalism, would anyone read it, asking for a friend x
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Over 60 comments, 30 retweets, 400 likes RE: the newspapers and orange juice piece, along with a bunch of DMs from people who've also had their heartbroken during the pandemic. Thank you all for your lovely words 🥺🍊🗞️
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Tell me you run an independent media organisation from your bedroom without telling me you run an independent media organisation from your bedroom
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🚨🌈 personal news 🌈🚨 your gal is a published author! Buy a copy:
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I've got an exciting online article coming out today and also ya girl is gonna be in print next week, wahoooo 🥳🎉
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How To Leave Everything To The Last Minute, a novel by me that I'll write later
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just pitched a column i really wanna write, if everyone could keep their fingers crossed for me that would be grand
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Erm no biggie but
@indie_pendent
isn't far off a quarter of a million views this year, how mad is that
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i dont understand ppl who say they dont find alexa chung attractive like R U Blind??
http://t.co/zDkllTBlbz
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🚨 Personal news 🚨
I've got a new job! I'm now Optimisation Editor for
@SheffieldStar
@LeedsNews
& the rest of the snazzy new 'City World' titles. Looking forward to a new challenge 💪
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Are people honestly surprised that Glastonbury has been cancelled? Am I just insanely pessimistic in not foreseeing a return for UK festivals this year?
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i am not great at cycling and so i would not pitch a cycling magazine a piece about my cycling skillz so why are men pitching pieces about how to be a good ally to women. take a look in the damn mirror first bro
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One thing I have noticed about calling out men on problematic behaviour is a tendency to massively overcorrect? Like no I'm not asking you to delete your whole Twitter account and go and live in the mountain as a monk, just think about what's been said and do better??
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With most major newsrooms still operating remotely, why oh why are new journalism jobs being advertised as "based in London", it is so unnecessary. News happens everywhere, surely it's an advantage to your paper to have reporters/eds around the country, nay, world?
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Had a cool 'full circle' moment yesterday - saw an ex colleague for the first time since moving back to Sheffield in the newsagents I worked in as a teen. Told her about my new job at The Star and she pointed out that I'm now an editor for the paper I used to sell/deliver 🥺
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The PM doing a press conference after all the details have already been given to the press makes me feel the same way that going to a meeting that could have just been an email makes me feel.
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Does anyone else develop a strange sense of attachment to internet tabs they've had open a long time??
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My parents have just bought a 12 seater sofa 🤣 anyone fancy hiring us for Gogglebox?
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Apparently it's not possible for me to have a meeting without a middle aged man telling me how blue my eyes are 👍
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The most audacious thing I've ever done is apply for a deputy editor role at a student paper *before* I had even got to the university... it was something I was teased for doing (keen much?) ... but you know what? You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
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Queen of adding stuff to my to-do list that I've already done just to feel the sweet thrill of serotonin as I tick it off
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When you're revising cause you have exams left but your friends are going out and enjoying themselves
http://t.co/EUOFn6bnu1
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I bled on his bedsheet and he said "don't worry, my mum will wash them"... reader, he was 25 and did not live at home
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Real talk for a moment... I've not enjoyed clothes shopping at all this year because everything I've bought has been a reminder that I have gained weight. But this is the first outfit I've been like HCK yh I'm cute as hell (bonus: pockets)
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