Cheese Grater Magazine: Online Editor

Hello! I’m Neytra and I’d love to nominate myself for Online Editor because, quite frankly, I already have a mild addiction to both writing and deadlines. I hear that’s the ideal combination. Having run and edited my school magazine, I’ve learned how to collect ideas, and maintain deadlines, producing results which I can bring to the role.

Beyond print, I have created and managed my own literary podcast, where I wrote, interviewed, and promoted every episode myself, so I understand the hectic flow this role requires. It’s taught me not only how to manoeuvre digital platforms but also how to make creative chaos sound reasonable, translating neatly into online editing.

I’m reliable to the point of superstition about deadlines, especially with the ever-changing news cycle. I love the idea of maintaining The Cheese Grater’s online presence as speedy and dependable, as the student publication that is a testimony to undisputed journalism.

If chosen, I’ll bring equal parts enthusiasm and efficiency and the commitment to make The Cheese Grater’s online presence as captivating as possible.

Over the last few weeks at the Cheese Grater, I have become very engaged with the paper as a whole, both in writing my own articles and in engaging with the Cheese Grater community.  I have some prior experience managing online content as the admin of the most prestigious, tenured and successful meme page in my secondary school, and although I won't pretend that being an Online Editor for the cheese grater will be a remotely similar role, I look forward to an opportunity to learn and make my way up the Cheese Grater corporate ladder. 

As someone who is already substantially chronically online anyway, the role will provide an opportunity to reroute my excess screen time towards productive matters, ideally helping to turn the Cheese grater into a reputable worldwide Pulitzer-winning institution, or at the very least comfortably above this "Pi Media" woke nonsense. 

I hope I can get your votes in this upcoming election, and if you don´t find my pitch above sufficiently convincing, ill give you a piece of gum at the next meeting in exchange for your vote (I assume that´s allowed?)

Many thanks,

Alejandro

I have really enjoyed my time so far in The Cheese Grater, and would love to have some more hands on involvement with the magazine. 

I was editor of my sixth form newspaper, and found that I was decent at summarising, cutting out, and assisting people with writing their articles. The role made me very interested in having a career in journalism, albeit my sixth form's gossip did pail in comparison to university and professional journalism!

Being a history student, editing, cutting down, and having the ability to evaluate points clearly and concisely are key features of my degree. Therefore, I believe I have quite a few transferrable skills that would be handy as online editor.

I have been published in magazines before, writing about studying advice, so am aware of the expectations of writing good articles. This was furthered by my enrolment in online journalism courses that I took last year. As well as this, I have shadowed journalists of the Guardian Live, so know a fair bit about online reporting. 

Moreover, as a cricket coach, I have the ability to summarise and condense the sometimes confusing aspects of cricket I want to teach to a wide range of audiences on a weekly basis.

The Cheese Grater has been such a big highlight during my time at UCL, and I would give a lot of energy and time to the role as Online Editor if I were given the opportunity. 

For the past months, I have been the welfare officer and acting  online editor of this wonderful magazine. I was determined to make this position, that in previous years has been somewhat neglected (not to shit on any of our lovely past online editors),  an important and impactful role in the committee.  It cannot be understated how important our instagram is to reaching our audience: it's the main way people interact with our articles! 

Not to toot my own horn... but I think I did a pretty good job :)  Our views have skyrocketed, our engagement is through the roof, and people are actually READING YOUR STORIES! 

Now I get that this all may seem very superficial. But I have been part of this magazine for almost a year, and I have seen (and experienced) the blood, sweat and tears that goes into writing, publishing, editing, organising and running a student publication... but if people don't read our articles then what is all that hard work for? 

I know I am a new face to many of you, but I hope you trust in me when I say that this magazine is my life and our Instagram (as it stands today) is my baby...

What can I say... I'M IN LOVE WITH A GIRL AND HER NAME IS THE CHEESE GRATER!