Janet Chia.

Words are mightier than the sword. Here, I am king.

Having graduated with a Honours Class I in BA Mass Communications, from Liverpool John Moores University in 2012, my dissertation titled, The Social Networking Sites (SNS) Facebook and OpenStudy as student learning forum, was centric on Computer Mediated Communications on social media. I was also awarded the prize for Best Overall Improvement by the university.

My other research interest in Internet Governance had earned me the golden ticket to go on a fully sponsored trip to Kenya for the Internet Governance Forum 2011, in representation of the Singapore Internet Research Centre.

I rise up to challenges and takes pride in what I do. This is cliche but my ambition since young is to be a journalist. I tried submitting my essays to a Chinese newspaper in Singapore, Lian He Zao Bao, and was glad to be published once when I was in Primary 4. Since then I don't think my ambition wavered much.

Upon graduation, I tried sending applications for journalism but was not shortlisted at all. Thus, I tried applying for copywriting. I did up a website to support my application (http://janetchia.wix.com/book). However, without a proper portfolio, I was rejected again. As a stepping stone, I'm currently working in a media company which gives me great exposure of behind the scene workings.

An aspiring journalist, I'm working hard for that byline. Follow me here, or in addition you may get to know me more at linkedin (http://sg.linkedin.com/in/janetchia/ )

Thank you.

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