Sophie Hastings
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A freelance features writer for the Observer, The Gentlewoman, GQ, ARTnews, The Design Edit etc.
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Sophie Hastings’s Biography
Read Full Bio →After finishing my degree (English Literature) I went straight into journalism with jobs at Tatler and Harpers & Queen and commissions from the Telegraph and the Evening Standard. There was much waitressing at this point too. Age 26, I spent a year travelling through south east Asia, and then moved to Paris where I lived and worked for four years, learning the language while I interned at Magnum Photos, temped for a group of gold traders, edited monographs for Galerie Enrico Navarra and sold mi…
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See all 13 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Researching and writing Britain's top 10 young entrepreneurs for Tatler, under the guidance of then features ed Lucinda Bredin.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes, I learnt to type on a manual typewriter and learnt shorthand too, on a Pitman's secretarial course after university
What does it mean to be a journalist?
'You better make them care what you think.' Nora Ephron.