18: Alya Mooro - Journalist and author of The Greater Freedom
She's Creative with Claire Hutchison
English - June 09, 2021 02:00 - 55 minutes - 101 MBArts Business Careers she is creative she's creative claire hutchison creative creative industries journalism media publishing books writer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Alya is a journalist and author of the bestselling non-fiction book The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes. She is a columnist at Restless and has written for the likes of New York Magazine, The Telegraph and Refinery 29.
She discussed using social media as a tool to get your foot in the door, doing shifts at Grazia and The Debrief, trying your hand at different jobs as a freelancer, her pitching process and how she finds stories, the importance of doing lots of reading, writing a column for Restless Network, building a social media following, her book The Greater Freedom and how it came to fruition, and her newsletter The Greater Conversation.
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