Until today I had not noticed that the Guardian put on the web a month ago mapped data from the earlier, and limited, release of information about MPs expenses.
Charles Arthur in the Technology section today alerts us to the item he put on the Datablog on April 3. And his suggestion that there should be [...]
The plan is that fairly quickly Suffolk Post (I have not mentioned the name of the local news and info site before) will employ journalists. The first will probably be freelance but before any can be recruited there will have to be income and that means advertising salespeople.
But the site (you don’t even need to [...]
Ed Oldfield, deputy chief sub of the Express and Echo in Exeter has started a web site for would-be journalists which Hold the Front Page says will encourage students to rate their courses.
Be a journalist has a lot of useful information and a forum has been set up with sections for individual universities and colleges [...]
The topic of the middle-class hold on journalism is not new but Media Guardian’s four page focus on journalism training is welcome, especially if the debate it stimulates results in action.
Peter Wilby leads the debate with an examination of the rise of the narrow social and ethnic base of journalism. He writes:
Faced with trying to [...]
Guardian Media Group has a lot of expertise in doing online video so it’s a pity it is not shared around all their papers. A bulletin by the Reading Evening Post’s sports editor, David Wright, is a “new contender for the worst newspaper video” according to Paul Bradshaw, who teaches online journalism at the University [...]
We are just beginning to get to grips with our new multimedia newsroom for the journalism department at the University of Westminster. It is to be opened next week by Helen Boaden, director of BBC News.
It marks a shift in the way in which we teach journalism and that involves a lot of thought and [...]
Paul Bradshaw, who teaches online journalism at the University of Central England in Birmingham, asked students to blog on why they felt they needed to learn online journalism skills.
The results are interesting, show an awareness of the medium and well worth reading. Remember, these students were at the beginning of their online module.
I am just [...]
I have had a couple of pleasant days talking to students who have returned from work placements. They have come back more confident, feeling like real journalist, after using the reporting skills we have been encouraging them to develop since the autumn.
They are happy and more convinced than ever that they want to be journalists, [...]
A very good question is asked by Lost Remote. Why don’t more journalists use news readers? I would never have come across this posting if my daily routine did not start with making a mug of tea, perching it on my desk and opening NewsGator.
Lost Remote explains: “Reporters and producers can widen their perspective [...]
A debate about the effectiveness of journalism training and education in meeting the needs of rapidly changing and converging mainstream media is taking off in the United States. The issues are similar here.
I was alerted to the discussion by Ryan Sholin who is working on a thesis at San Jose State University about the adoption [...]
