Melanie
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Location | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | NCTJ qualified. BA (Hons) Philosophy. Freelance reporter for MancunianMatters.co.uk covering news, gigs, cinema reviews, food blog and features. Also do freelance work for Sportsbeat agency covering Football League supplying The Football League Paper. Contributed to the Times Online Sport website in 2008. Contributed to The Guardian newspaper (sports pages) 2010. Recently spent six weeks in Uganda working for New Vision Newspaper, Uganda's leading paper. ALso appeared on the panel of a 2 hour sports radio talk show every weekend. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, sport, films, music, travel, food. |
| Favorite Movies | I heart Huckabees, High Fidelity, Lost In Translation, American Beauty, All Batman films, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Burn After Reading, Inception, the Departed, Goodfellas |
| Favorite Music | The Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, Interpol, Bob Dylan, Beck, Ryan Adams, Radiohead, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Idlewild, The Killers, The National, The Gaslight Anthem. |
| Favorite Books | Nick Hornby - High Fidelity, Albert Camus - The Outsider, Emmanuel Levinas - Existence and Existents, American Physco - Brett Easton Ellis, The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson, The Beach - Alex Garland, Inverting the Pyramid - Jonathan Wilson, Labyrinths - Jorges Luis Borges, Bram Stoker's Dracula, We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver, A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin |