Frances Whiting is an author, journalist and speaker working for the Courier/Sunday Mail. Frances first began out as a primary school teacher however went back to study business and journalism at Queensland University of Technology.
Frances worked in East London teaching for a year at a bad school where the parents of the students liked her because she actually stayed there. Most of these parents were criminals, they even gave her stolen goods as gifts.
After this she came back to Australia and got a job at a small newspaper on the north coast called the Sunshine Coast Extra but then she was offered a job at the Brisbane Sunday Mail. Frances wrote a column on the Ekka which was meant to be a one off but has now written this weekly column for 16 years.
Frances prefers feature writing to news report writing because there is more time to produce the pieces and the writer can be more creative.
Frances had this piece of advice for the students: ‘Find your own voice. Find your own way of doing things. Find something you are passionate and enthusiastic about and you will succeed’.
You can follow Frances on Twitter at @FrancesWhiting.
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