Jack Sommers
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Editing all sorts @Businessinsider . Bored of: Brexit, aggressively-held beliefs, clout chasers. Into: Jokes, things I didn't know, your cat’s Insta.
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@MhairiBlack
on top form as ever, at the
#SNPIndyConvention
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"Since 1939, 62 countries gained independence from Westminster - and not a single one has ever asked to come back."
Let's keep up the hard work, stay focused, and ensure Scotland is the 63rd!
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Is it because you’re not an activist but an abstentionist whose writing seeks to do little besides boost your standing among the do-nothing left?
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Incredibly, Foreign Secretary would only be Cameron's second job in Government
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Since I've not done this in a while - here are the type of freelance pitches I'm particularly interested in, with an example of each.
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"Today I feel.... dead."
FIFA president Gianni Infantino appears to take a selfie at Pelé's funeral
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For no reason at all here’s Mary Earps being amazed by a whale
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It's the desperate need to tweet I don't get. A claim is published you think embarrasses your tribe/cause, so you just... tweet... immediately... that it didn't happen... without checking?
Atlantic spokeswoman on the Chick-fil-A incident that Nikole Hannah-Jones and many others claimed must have been fabcricated: "the details were confirmed by New York Times employees who had contemporaneous knowledge of the incident in question."
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One of our big topics right now is loneliness and I'd love to hear from freelancers who have stories to tell about how remote work/returning to the office intersects with loneliness
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Ah yes Farage’s pet policy: banning smoking
“There has been a slow, hostile takeover by the right of the Conservative Party… It's Farage’s party now.”
The News Agents discuss how the right gradually took the reigns, and moderate members allowed it.
Catch up on
@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
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@jonsopel
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@lewis_goodall
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VERY useful guide for freelancers about pitching editors, by an NYT editor. The sample of a great pitch at the end is so short!
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I always that the Left had only *tacitly* embraced Hamas as allies but here’s Judith Butler in 2006 saying the quiet part loud
“Hamas and Hezbollah are social movements that are progressive and are part of the Global Left."
Some of the western left really wants to align themselves with the same terrorists who want to throw them off a roof when all is said and done.
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Hello all, my DMs are open for early-career freelancers who'd like me to review a pitch they are trying to land.
I'll close them again after a few hours and reply to those I can, rewriting the pitch how I'd pitch it and explaining why. If that's you, send it along!
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Interesting
@RosamundUrwin
piece on ghostwriters, including the detail that, despite Isabel Oakeshott insisting she wasn't paid to help Hancock with his book, she's believed to have made *48 grand* from its syndication
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Bring it back and have
@holland_tom
and
@dcsandbrook
commentate
We really failed as a society by not having more seasons of Time Commanders, that show where teams of average people with little familiarity with history or video games controlled armies in Total War.
Should revive it on Twitch and have academics (preferably drunk) comment.
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One year ago I was in the Clapham Tap waiting for an Australian girl who was frantically texting her bus was late. After the best 12 months of my life, she’s a New York Times Bestseller and my flat mate. Happy anniversary
@EmiliaHartBooks
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Some replies saying Ireland was also part of the UK. The Irish and Scottish experiences of being in the UK are… quite different
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Ooof, badly misjudged, this
Russell Brand was a heroin addict, discovers crack investigative team on page 145 of My Booky-Wook
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Also funny: so long as he has a column in the Guardian he’s obliged to write about the mainstream. But he’s completely at the mercy of a Twitter audience that is adamant the mainstream must be shunned. He’s like a vegan reviewing a steakhouse.
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Most pitches are like:
"Would you be interested in a story about X?"
And then:
"It all begins with my father."
And then 300 words of narrative, and then:
"Is this something you would be interested in?"
No, no, and double no
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I’ve never been more desperate for the front page of the National
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A 17-tweet thread in response to being unfollowed by two historians who have, on this evidence, made an excellent decision
Was gutted to discover two historians - both Jewish - unfollowed me over the past week or so. I like to think I constantly check my privilege here especially when challenged on race, gender, & anything else. I’m not a proud person and will happily listen, reflect, & grow. /1
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@JoeTwyman
I think Colin Kaepernick had this as his Twitter bio for years attributed to ‘Iain Smith’
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Jones has realised Starmer is going to disappoint this group enormously (what foresight!) and is setting up his credentials as The One Who Saw It Coming
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Prince Harry’s ghostwriter is constantly retweeting praise and I wish this was the energy British writers had
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@holland_tom
The peak of this was Eddie Mair saying ‘no one from Newsnight was available for comment’ as he hosted a Newsnight episode retracting the previous week’s Newsnight
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Well here's an underused byelaw
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Had a (very) short but intriguing pitch - asked for more details, got immediate reply, realised it wasn't quite what I thought so replied saying thank you but not this time.
Here's to short pitches!
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He’s a funny one because Politician-Journalists (a terrible breed, sadly unique to Britain) usually use journalism as a way of advancing themselves in politics. Jones uses politics to advance himself in journalism, or whatever you call what he does
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I realise I've not said this here, but I don't deal with freelance pitches for
@BusinessInsider
anymore - if you have a pitch, please email my colleague
@KieraFields7
who is always on the hunt for stuff
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Once again, I do believe Oakeshott and Hancock should be a couple in the next WHite Lotus
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The NYT laments a woman's Apple Watch failed to "call 911" when she had an accident. But I think that's a good thing given she LIVES IN LONDON.
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that's right, it's in my bio. I am still amazed by the number of 'What's your email?' tweets these threads prompt
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Imagine still defending this man
'Do you condemn Hamas?'
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to say if he condemns Hamas but insists 'obviously all attacks are wrong' when questioned in Liverpool
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If the clarification about the hammer doesn’t move the polls, nothing will
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Just had a freelance pitch in ✨short bullet points✨, almost shouted "yes!" at my screen
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I’ve started a newsletter. It’s about learning to run, trying to write a book and what one can teach me about the other. In the first post I explain why I think running has lessons for sitting at a desk writing
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I just reread this by
@nxthompson
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Shakespeare: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Me: Can we just say 'Tomorrow'? Feels like repetition and we're already way over the word count
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I thought I’d heard it all re local newspaper decline but this still shocked me: a court reporter job for papers in the north west was advertised and NO ONE APPLIED
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Why does not Edi Rama, the largest prime minister, simply not eat the other prime ministers?
🚨 | NEW: Rishi Sunak (5’7) meets Albanian PM Edi Rama (6’7)
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The lesson here is don’t piss off Harriet Harman’s second cousin once removed by marriage
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Dreamt I bought a £40,000 haircut. Then I found out it came with a free deal to develop a 10-part Netflix series. I went around boasting about the deal but was scared people would find out it came free with a haircut
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Then, weird/fun/expensive travel and what it's like/whether it's worth it
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Pitching a story ≠ telling a story
Stick to a proposed headline, brief summary of sources and SHORT bullet points about what you might write
Feel like you're missing out crucial detail? Doesn't matter! If I'm intrigued I'll reply and if a pitch intrigues me it's doing its job
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New Season, New Podcast!
Join
@GaryLineker
,
@alanshearer
and
@MicahRichards
for the first full-length episode of
#TheRestIsFootball
Available wherever you get your podcasts
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Will finding out who Andrew Tate is enrich me. Be honest.
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I see the Guardian has published a ‘but how do we KNOW?’ Lucy Letby article in which people without access to the full clinical records speculate that two juries got it wrong
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First up, first persons of people who made big moves, particularly if they struggled with it and have advice for anyone contemplating the same
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‘We go again and we try even harder’ ❤️
I'm very proud to launch the Harry Kane Foundation - it marks the start of a journey for me as my Foundation aims to transform a generation’s thinking about mental health.
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Some shocking claims about Guardian stuff in this piece by a Jewish member of staff there
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As I've said before - AI. It won't replace you, but someone who knows how to use it might. Let's share the knowledge
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I get countless tweets asking "what's your email?" It's hidden in a very special place, only a few know about it. Can you find it?
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Let the ex Chancellor edit a newspaper, they said. It'll be appropriate and ethical, they said.
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As ever I keep thinking of the Mark Twain line: "Sorry I wrote a long letter. I didn't have time to write a short one."
Writers have to make choices. A short pitch shows me you can make them. A long pitch feels like you're asking me to make the choices.
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Surely no one who uses this phrase can be ignorant of the offence it causes? Just obstinate refusal to concede *anything* they do is wrong
“Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea.”
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@keiranpedley
Also I think it was so personal to each of us that no one is going to be talked into a different view by a politician
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I've taken a step back from working with freelancers in recent weeks but I'm resurfacing to say we're keen on interviews with serving military personnel about what their job is like. This would be in the as-told-to format like these ones
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Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Me: Source?
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Reading a book in which the author reveals he runs ParkRun wearing a shirt with the cover of his latest book on it - this is the self-promotion energy I want each of you to embrace from now on
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The embrace of Hamas makes the repeated failure to condemn what they did on October 7 glaring and stomach-turning. I remain shocked at the lengths so many of you went to to avoid just admitting you were wrong about a terror group
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The person who decided laptops would turn on with a sound that it's impossible to mute? I want to meet them. Talk to them. Really hear their story. Because it's only by listening that we can transcend our differences
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Ah a PR ‘just following up’ on an email sent yesterday, despite receiving an OOO saying I’m off until January
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Nephew of the previous PM, Lord Salisbury, Robert Cecil. Potentially the origin of the expression "Bob's your uncle"
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We're looking to more stories like this: Personal essays by people who've moved from rich countries to poorer ones, breaking down the why and how of living and working in their new home. Email me if this is you
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Ratees vary depending on logistics and the amount of research needed. But a single-interview written up in the 'as told to' style starts at £300.
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Remember quiet quitting? We're keen on first persons about grumpy staying/loud quitting/ something called 'double dipping' which, I learn, means working two jobs remotely.
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If you’re very well read and Scottish or Irish, please unfollow. If you’re poorly read and Scottish or Irish, please like and subscribe.
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Incredibly niche leaseholder question - is it wise to extend a leasehold given a Labour government might soon be legislating to abolish leaseholds and replace them with commonholds?
@CommonholdNow
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No idea why this guy emailed me once. But I remember when I ignored him, he followed up with: ‘What’s the matter Jack? Too fucking stupid?’
‘Dear Dipshit,’ another email to Elledge began, ‘you just have no concept of what a clueless dumb fuck you are. Which makes you an insanely clueless dumb fuck.’
@JoshMcloughlin
spoke to the world's angriest academic.
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Can anyone recommend a good office chair for working at home? This will replace something wholly unsuitable so anything would be an improvement. Suggestions welcome!
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Ah yes - Foreign secretary under Heath
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Helpful info here for those looking to pitch on-the-day opinion pieces for Indy Voices! More commissioning editors should do this!
The dream: If you want to pitch to
@IndyVoices
, do it between 7-8am that day on something hot and new and current and fast-moving and trending. And if we both agree on a commission, file 600-800 words within two hours. 🤩
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Sorry I’m British: what’s a dog?
the american concept of having a pet dog makes me sad in a way bc it's like. here we have these intelligent animals that are specifically bred to do certain tasks. but ppl don't pay much attention to that and just think i NEED to have a dog i just keep locked up all day
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Dear God, do not follow up on your email by literally just sending the word "nudge."
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@teaforpterosaur
Also im not following the ‘maths is hard for some of us, so lets teach it less’ logic
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