Benjamin Jackson
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(He/Him)
As seen in:
Yorkshire Evening Post,
MSN UK,
Nature,
Mashable,
The Atlantic,
Flipboard,
The Next Web,
Edinburgh Evening News,
The Scotsman,
Royal Society of Chemistry,
BioRxiv
and
Covers:
Concerts, music, film, live events, festivals
Doesn't Cover:
Politics, religion, sport
Journalist for Yorkshire Evening Post. Pop culture junkie. "Fountain of weird, useless knowledge" - school teachers. Opinions my own and own alone.
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Benjamin Jackson’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Benjamin Jackson is a vertical news specialist at NationalWorld, focusing on events with an interest in concerts and film.
Benjamin graduated from the University of Lincoln, earning a BA (Hons) in Journalism, before moving to New Zealand to start his journalism career.
Notable titles he has written for include Vice Magazine, The Groove Guide, Rip It Up, and several other music-themed street publications before moving back to the United Kingdom and joining NationalWorld.
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Interview
See all 19 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Interviewing a New Zealand duo called The Bengal Lights. True story - I ended up marrying one of the members.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
When I was knee-high to a grasshopper!
How is social media changing news?
It's making it hard to determine what is real and what is not, and the dissemination of a lot of rumours through social media doesn't help.