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KS3 Language Lab: Newsdesk

10. Tell us about the role of editors in journalism.

As part of KS3 Language Laboratory, Lola Okolosie, journalist and English teacher, talks about her writing and looks closely at two Guardian articles.

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1. Tell us what you write and who you write for. What makes your writing distinctive?

2. Tell us about the process of writing for different publications.

3. Tell us about the way you write.

4. How free are you to introduce your own style into what you write for newspapers and magazines?

5. You are both a teacher and a journalist so what would you say are the main differences between writing in school and writing in the real world.

6. Newspapers have all sorts of writing in them. What makes an opinion column, for example, different from an editorial?

7. Talk us through an article of your own, focusing on the choices you made as a writer.

8. Have you noticed journalistic style changing in the past few years because of the influence of social media?

9. Talk us through an article by someone else that you think students would benefit from reading.

10. Tell us about the role of editors in journalism.