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Peek at my Week

Peek at my Week

Inside the Diary of a freelance showbiz reporter, features writer and events moderator

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Emma Wilkinson
Nov 22, 2024
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This week in our Premium newsletter we have another episode of our ‘Peek at my week’ series where we poke around inside a freelance journalist’s diary. For this instalment, we spoke to Lara Olszowska who has many strings to her bow. Lara won our 2023 Freelancing for Journalists Early Career Award.

She has since gone on to have bylines in The Guardian, The Independent, The i paper, The Telegraph, Monocle, Time Out, Tatler, Wonderland, Prospect, Business Insider, The Evening Standard, The i paper, MailOnline, and more. Her newsletter Off-Diary gives a candid sneak peek behind the scenes of a Fleet Street hack.

She is also a dab hand at gatecrashing celeb events and snatching juicy celeb gossip. Her weekly diary made both of us feel exhausted just reading it!

Read on to find out more…

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