{"id":667,"date":"2016-01-01T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=667"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:30","slug":"laura-dunn-ba-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2016\/01\/01\/laura-dunn-ba-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Dunn (BA 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image pull-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/laura-dunn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-670\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/laura-dunn-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Dunn\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/laura-dunn-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/laura-dunn-506x338.jpg 506w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/laura-dunn.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Laura is a social media and communications professional.<\/p>\n<p>I had a fantastic four years at Cardiff University studying for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/courses\/course\/journalism-and-communications-ba\">BA in Journalism<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.cardiff.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/course\/detail\/p249.html\">MA in Political Communication<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0my lecturers continually encouraged me to create exciting content and follow my interests.<\/p>\n<p>I started my first blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicsandstyle.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Political Style<\/a>, when I began my BA in Journalism at Cardiff in 2007, and it has since gained both national and international coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to <em>Gair Rhydd<\/em> gave me the opportunity to hone my writing and interviewing skills and it was this experience that has stood me in good stead in my current role as a blogger for <em>The Huffington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I recently started my own business LED Media which offer social media, copywriting and content services. In 2015, I launched <em>Women In Web,<\/em>\u00a0a website that showcases women from all walks of life and shares their stories of inspiration and success.<\/p>\n<p><em>Women In Web<\/em> has given me the opportunity to interview some of my personal heroes including American journalist and activist Mika Brzezinski, and writer Carol Joynt.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to have my own business, and my time at Cardiff University helped to nurture my entrepreneurial spirit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With clients in both the public and private sectors, I hope that it will become an established authority in the world of content and social media.<\/p>\n<p>The skills, experience and confidence I gained at Cardiff have been instrumental in my desire for a career in communications, and I hope to be as successful as the well-known individuals across the UK and the world that have studied at JOMEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura is a social media and communications professional.","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-alumni"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}