It’s 19-and-a-half years since I first emailed the late James MacGregor, in a state of major excitement: Netribution wanted to republish an article I’d written on work experience about short films! That was May 2006. A month or so before, my brother and I had been checking out the mastheads of his beloved film magazines in our local Sainsbury’s, so I could find editors’ details and gain work experience (thank you, Hotdog magazine, RIP). That is an extremely mid-Noughties sentence. Hotdog itself was closed down in 2006.  A 2005 graduate with an English Lit degree, I’d been teaching English in Spain, but knew that I really wanted to embark on a journalism career. Hotdog let me interview and review; those pieces led to more stories, which I used for my next work placement; and suddenly I was being published online! You couldn’t have told me that I wasn’t living in THE golden age of journalism. Upon seeing my article republished on Netribution, I emailed James to offer him…