Dreaming of a job leading a newsroom for a local newspaper?
Samantha Harman, editor of Oxford Mail, explains to Charlotte Harding how she climbed the editorial ladder before her thirties in this article for Generation Tribe.
"Newsrooms are hectic places, the newsdesk won’t have time to baby you. Go in armed with some ideas of your own, don’t wait to be spoon-fed," said Harman.
"Make a point of introducing yourself to everybody (even the editor, even if she seems busy and extremely sassy, like me)."
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