Wannabe hack? Are you good or turgid?

“I keep getting told there is an over-supply of qualified people wanting to do journalism. Well, maybe there is but there’s definitely not an over-supply of people who are any good.”

Ouch.

Alan Geere (Editorial director of Northcliffe’s South East group of weekly newspapers) is
fed up with “turgid letters of application and monstrous cv’s”…so he’s asking aspiring journos to apply via twitter, in 140 characters or less:

@alangeere

From the Press Gazette