A career milestone

Hi all, this is a very brief post!

So over the summer I decided that I wanted to be more involved in student life and so I decided that at the beginning of my second year I would join both the student newspaper/magazine as well as the ACS (African Caribbean Society) as I am an inherent commitment phobe I am actually quite surprised to say that 6 weeks later I have not only joined both groups but also attended events with them both AND written a feature for the magazine.

At the time of joining CUB magazine I had an idea to write something on friendship, an issue that all of us (hopefully) can relate to! So I immediately wrote up a draft and sent it to the features editors who said that they liked my article but just wanted to tweak it slightly.

They then said that it would be posted in a few weeks time. Since that day I have been checking CUB’s site religiously for my feature and I was delighted when I finally saw that they had posted my work over the weekend. I was just so happy that they were confident enough in my idea to post it online for anyone to read. It is also very exciting that they have now associated their brand with me as an amateur writer!

Here’s a link to my first ever official feature:http://cubmagazine.co.uk/2014/10/the-end-of-the-best-friend/ 

Please leave comments, I’m dying to know what you all think about it!

RIP Company Magazine

So yesterday Company Magazine, which has been in circulation for 36 years, announced that their October issue would be their last. This is so upsetting that a print magazine that has managed to survive for so may years will no longer exist. This echoes a similar story of Sugar Magazine which went bust in 2011 after 17 years in print. Company magazine has, in the last few years, played an active part of my life as it has taught me so many new things and inspired my interest in writing and fashion and I will be very very sad to see them go.

This, to me, marks the end of the print magazine. I believe that in around 20 years we will look back and reminisce about the times that we used to physically buy magazines in the way we used to buy VHS movies or Desktop PCs. I think that it is very sad that yet another part of our lives is falling victim to this new, ever changing digitised world that we live in.

However, the truth of the matter is that digital magazines are technically more practical and environmentally friendly than magazines which can be bulky and eventually end up in the bin. It just saddens me that I can actively see our world changing and not in a way that I necessarily agree with. I just know that I'll make sure to support the print magazine industry as I do every month, for as long as I can.

The only thing that is constant is change and I suppose that is something I need to get my head round, and fast.