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Ink GlobalZara Woodcock
Ink Global – West Hampstead• Inflight travel magazines – e.g. EasyJet, Air Berlin etc.• 775 million passengers engage with the media yearly• 26 magazines for more than 20 airlines worldwide
Responsibilities• Research on events• Setting up and doing the interviews• Writing features, small articles, sections• Sub Editing• Emailing for HD photos and permissions
Interviews
Dominique Monami - Belgian former professional female tennis player, Olympic 2000 Bronze medal winner
Xavier Malisse – Retired Belgian tennis player, French Open winner and Wimbledon semi-finalist
Yasmine El Baggari – Entrepreneur and CEO of Travel Platform Voyaj
GMM Grammy, Bangkok • Largest media company in Thailand• It claims a 70% share of the entire Thai entertainment industry• Concert productions, artist management, TV and film production and
publishing
Roles – Music Talk show• Translating interviews from English to Thai• Research• Asking photo permissions• Shadowed in the live editing room/ show graphics• Writing subtitles for interviews• Creating cue cards• Assisting bands with whatever they needed
What I did well• Good at finding brand
new events etc.• Confident with
interviews• Confident with asking
around • Wrote articles
efficiently
What I didn’t do well• Horrible at receiving constructive
criticism • World’s shortest attention span• Articles were always too “clich锕 Lack of enthusiasm
What I would do differently/ What I learnt• Accept criticism and learn from it• Not to let my dislike for who I was working for affect my work • How to be professional in interviews • Travel Journalism isn’t for me like I thought it was• I’m not as bad as I thought I was