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Max Klinger
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Paxman be warned: Max wants your job
ASK most teenagers who they want to emulate, and it’s a safe bet that Jeremy Paxman will not figure prominently.
But Camden student Max Klinger has his eyes on “Paxo’s” Newsnight throne, and has been perfecting his rottweiler growl at a prestigious journalism summer school all week.
Mr Klinger, 17, is one of 22 London state school students to win a place at the Spiked journalism summer school in Canary Wharf.
The week long course, which started last Saturday, was devised by the online publication Spiked and is sponsored by the City of London and British property company Canary Wharf Group.
Students experience everything from hard- hitting exposes to the dark arts of tabloid journalism, at the course that was set up last year to attract 16 to 18 year-olds from the state system to a career in the media.
Mr Klinger, who attends the sixth form at Camden School for Girls, wants to go into political journalism. He said: “I've always been interested in journalism. I think it is a very interesting career – you get to meet a lot of different people and it's flexible. You're not stuck doing the same thing every day.”
Applicants had to write a 500-word article on “2012: the Olympics and young Londoners”, followed by an intensive interview before they were invited to attend the course.
The course boasts a number of high-profile journalists from The Times, Heat and Five Live who will mentor the students.
Students complete various writing tasks, attend practical workshops and get a behind the scenes view of the BBC newsroom.
Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked, said: “Journalism should be open and accessible to all who have something interesting to say and the guts to say it, regardless of what school tie they wear or who their father is.
“We hope the summer school will encourage a new layer of journalists to burst through and stir things up.”
A report commissioned by The Times Higher Education Supplement showed that while only 7 per cent of the UK population are educated privately, 50 per cent of top journalists went to private schools.www.spiked-online.com
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