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deputy editor @dazed serena.smith @dazedmedia .com / serena.smith3103 @gmail .com

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Serena Smith
1 year
for anyone who is interested: we now have a guide to pitching dazed digital on the site!
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love actually is my favourite xmas film but ive just realised i cannot name a single character. like what is Keira Knightley called? Alan Rickman? Emma Thompson? do they even have names
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media jobs be like - do you know your tiktoks from your tumblrs? - do you have ten years experience with PPC, SEO, CMS, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, iMovie, and launching email campaigns? - 15k p.a.
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"sorry for asking so many questions haha" -me, a journalist
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apart from Joanna obvs
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@_rhysthomas_ oh shit yeah, how could I forget Colin frissell with the big knob
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2 years
Today is my first day as News Editor at @Dazed ❣️ New email is serena.smith @dazedmedia .com
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i wish there was a clearer distinction in all the ~discourse~ between mental health and mental illness, lol. i think we all know now that 'it's okay not to be okay' but how many people are comfortable with talking about the very real signs and symptoms of mental illness
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me aged 7 coming into my mum’s room at 3am to tell her i’ve been sick
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i wonder if lee has considered that people might want to enjoy their lives
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Lee Anderson - Reform candidate
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Again for the doubters. 6p each, just chuck on 10p worth of milk. Milk at Tesco £1.65 for 4 pints. Wait for the denial.
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keen to hear pitches for @Dazed Digital - sex/relationships, internet trends, pop culture, books, anything related to young people or youth culture, etc etc. Email is serena.smith @dazedmedia .com
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3 years
just handed in my notice at my 9-5! full-time freelancing here i come
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sharing the fact i've had 987 commissions in the past 8 days and earned £250,000 - just for 'transparency'! i'm so brave x
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You aren’t a features journo until someone comments under your article ‘how is this news’
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For @VICEUK I spoke to a bunch of young people who recently quit their jobs as part of The Great Resignation (Spoiler alert: none of them regret it)
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Lucky no. 61!! I have a job!!!!
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rejected or ghosted by 60 and hear from (read: will be rejected by) no. 61 tomorrow xx
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People just apply to jobs and then get an interview then get the job? Sounds fake tbh
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I am in @GraziaUK !!!!! Very surreal moment ⭐️
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My latest piece for @Refinery29UK on the issue of dropshipping on Depop “Ordinarily, there’s an onus on the consumer to resist buying into fast fashion but dropshipping complicates this. What happens when the consumer thinks they’re buying ethically?”
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I’m in print in @StylistMagazine ! I wrote about how many of us have lost all sense of ‘personal style’ over lockdown ✍️
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i want jack grealish and liberty to start dating as soon she gets out the villa. the only appropriate ending to the summer of brummie supremacy
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i just realised yesterday marked 1 year since my first article was published :'( we have come a long way since then. i would literally send pitches with the subject line as '(no subject)' or 'pitch' lmao. no strategy, no professionalism, just vibes
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New flat just dropped !
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🚨earnest post alert!!🚨 today marks a year since i was offered a job at dazed (i was so happy i cried). as it's the end of the year too, i thought i'd do a thread of some of the best pieces i've edited over the past 12 months:
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surely in theory NO area should go from tier 2 to tier 3 given the fact the tiers system is supposed to contain and control the virus........... cool how the government are just watching their system fail and continuing with it regardless. really cool
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microdosing body dysmorphia (watching love island)
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Quite alarming to see so many mourners interviewed in recent days say that they'd come down to see 'history happening' - as if 'history' is something which is always done *to* the people, and not something which the people can actively shape
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i wish this was the bold type and writing 3 articles would sustain me for 2 months
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4 years
For @VICEUK I tracked every Leeds-based graduate job uploaded to Reed in the month of October. Everyone knows youth unemployment is bad at the moment, but this really demonstrates just how dire things are for unemployed young people rn
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why have i been offered group therapy for social anxiety
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i thought an article i was writing was shockingly bad and couldn't put my finger on what was wrong but i realised i was just writing in the wrong font
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hancock thinks he’s in casa amor
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Logging on to say I got 73 in this and have now officially passed my MPhil ! ✨
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4 years
Logging on to say I completed Cambridge !
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idk i just feel the movement to destigmatise mental illness has been co-opted by otherwise healthy people who went through a rough patch one time
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24!!! 🧚‍♀️
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Wrote about how the 'lazy girl job' trend is an understandable progression of anti-work culture, but also how romanticising drudgery will not lead to social change (or even individual happiness)
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3 years
Tories will turn up to polling booths in 2023 and say ‘oh, but the pandemic was an unprecedented crisis, we have to cut them some slack’ as if the government’s job is not to literally prepare the UK for and protect its people from unprecedented crises
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I’m genuinely so triggggered by this Francis Bourgeois talk bcs it’s reminding me of the way people had that same, binary, “you’re either ‘‘‘cool’’’ or ‘‘‘uncool’’” mindset at school LOL
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see y’all in jail
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. @pritipatel do it if ur hard
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“Playing politics” you’re literally at PMQs
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Serena Smith
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Wrote a dissertation Completed Cambridge Began freelancing Got published in some dream publications Was featured in print in Grazia and The i Paper Invented a word Appeared on an Australian radio station Got a full time writing job Moved back to Leeds :)
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Ashley Strong
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this year was rough - brag on yourself a bit :)! what did you accomplish this year?
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Wrote about why so many straight women are keen on a 'rules-based' approach to dating – don't sleep with him on the first date, don't text him first, never split the bill – and why we should accept that relationship status is mostly determined by luck
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To mark the anniversary of the first lockdown, I looked at why people are romanticising last spring already for @VICEUK - and why it's vital we don't let nostalgia take over when we look back at the early days of the pandemic
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4 years
One of the most useful things about writing for The Tab at uni was weirdly desensitising me to hate comments. I had people call me ugly/a whore/an idiot when I was 18 and writing my first articles- gammon are seriously not going to phase me now loool
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4 years
Fastest commission ever - seven mins after sending the pitch. ?????? Thank you god
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3 years
just to say my DMs are always open if anyone ever wants to ask questions about freelancing! i'm still a baby freelancer myself so don't rly know that much but sometimes people in my DMs seem embarrassed/nervous to be asking questions at all - pls don't be!!
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wrote this for @theleaduk about leaving Leeds, moving to London, and what can be done about the droves of young people leaving the North
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j’obsessed with my new fur sorry not sorry !!!!!!
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4 years
This is an excellent front page
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Jim Pickard 🐋
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useful reminder that Sage experts recommended the circuit breaker 40 days ago
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4 years
My second piece for @VICEUK ! Studentification is something I’ve always been fascinated by but didn’t know much about, so this was super interesting to research. Give it a read!!
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3 years
Huge thanks to whoever nominated me for the @UKWritingAwards 💖
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Wrote about how self-improvement culture is bleeding into the dating landscape, and subsequently making the pursuit of love so impossibly difficult
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Still thinking about Anton’s PR team asking for a fee for an article comment.... insanity aside, how can you manage an influencer and not know how journalism works?? Did they not realise if they asked for a fee 1 that would obviously be denied and 2 their request published????
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pretty flat:)
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success !
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explain this science ,,,!!!!!!!
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Nobody looks good in Yellow. Nobody.
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seeing youtubers do £500+ hauls from fast fashion companies every other week is, truly, a big yikes
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3 years
i still laugh at how guy fawkes, when apprehended on this night 416 years ago, gave his name to the authorities as 'john johnson'. obvs a fake name was a good idea but john johnson is the fakest fake name ever
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why oh why do i always go from 'how will i write 1k words' to 'how do i delete 653 words'
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Lollllll I can’t bear people who are addicted to dramatically saying ‘I don’t think we’ll ever go back to normal’. Do you really think humans survived the Black Death but clubs will literally *never* reopen??? In the 21st century???
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The way Florence given talks about black women as if they’re concepts and not actual people makes me uncomfortable
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8 months into my 80s culture/nostalgia content writing job and i have been asked to write what i have wanted to write since day 1: a round up of diana's best outfits
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ummm
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How old do you have to be before people stop asking you if you’re ‘home from uni’ 🥲
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Unbelievably chuffed to have been shortlisted for two #FreelanceWritingAwards !!! Congrats to all the other entrants/shortlisted writers x
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The Freelance Writing Awards
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It’s time to announce the shortlists for the first ever @UKWritingAwards ! 🏆🏆🏆 #FreelanceWritingAwards !
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4 years
Beyond tired of this being on every single job ad I see. People tell me to apply anyway/bring up that statistic of men always applying for things they’re underqualified for/etc but I won’t be doing that anymore as tbh it is just a waste of time lol
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‘Traps’ ‘tests’ ????? Toby it’s a relationship not an escape room #LoveIsland
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Me and my friends have collectively gone from “is that a fair salary for that role tho? Is it gonna help you advance your career long-term?” To “a job is a job” in the space of three months
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Chris Whitty for strictly 2021
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i think watching olivia attwood and matt hancock fillet and sauté a squirrel together has the potential to alter my brain chemistry forever
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Wrote about why the rich don't seem to eat surfeits of lampreys like they used to x
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I don't know how anyone has managed to concentrate today
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this point has been made 1000 times but it's unbearably frustrating to hear 'reach out for help!' constitute 99% of mental health 'advice', when actually reaching out is so much more difficult than a straightforward phone call or email
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:)!
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I’m in print in @StylistMagazine ! I wrote about how many of us have lost all sense of ‘personal style’ over lockdown ✍️
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How to stop feeling like I’m ‘annoying’ editors by sending two pitches a month when it is literally their job to be sent pitches
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lol my mum is doing a clear out and i’m obsessed with this random card i made my dad
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jumping on the bandwagon - here is my thread of cool stuff i wrote this year
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