London-based journalist, author and blogger Tanya de Grunwald, 32, is the founder of GraduateFog.co.uk. What started in April 2010 as a careers advice website for job-hunting graduates is now best known for its outspoken blog covering the most controversial and incendiary aspects of graduate unemployment, graduate debt and unpaid internships. Tanya does much of her own reporting - most recently exposing Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt for recruiting an unpaid intern to work in his Westminster office. Her stories and expert quotes appear regularly in the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph and Daily Mail.

Tanya is now one of the most vocal and visible champions of the issue of unpaid internships. In October she launched Pay Your Interns, a digital campaign to 'name and shame' the corporate organisations which pay their interns less than the minimum wage for their work. Already, the blacklisted includes many well-known high-street brands. There have been positive stories too - Lord Sugar, John Lewis, Penguin and the ad agency BBH have all promised they do not have unpaid interns working for them.

In June 2008, Tanya's first book Dude, Where's my Career? The Guide for Baffled Graduates was published by Summersdale. She is now working on her second, which she will self-publish and sell exclusively through GraduateFog.co.uk from January 2012. As a trained features journalist for women's magazines, Tanya also writes freelance commissions for women's magazines including GLAMOUR, Cosmopolitan, Stylist, Fabulous and You.

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