Roy Greenslade has a full examination of the Awful truth of the lost-making Press Gazette. He gives details of a report commissioned by Associated Newspapers and the Telegraph setting out the dire financial situation and the stewardship of Matthew Freud and Piers Morgan.
This includes £15,000 taken by Freud for bottles of Chateau Lafitte from his [...]
A big thank you to the students on the postgraduate diploma in journalism studies at Cardiff for putting Wordblog at the top of their “blog of the week” list today. Thanks also to Hannah from Cardiff for her comment on my post about convergency and journalism training.
I really do appreciate contributions from students who often [...]
The announcement that the Broadcast Journalism Training Council and the National Council for the Training of Journalists have committed themselves to working closely together is welcome.
As they say, in their joint statement this afternoon, “New technology and booming new media platforms are transforming newsrooms and increasing the demand for multi-skilled, multi-media journalists.”
Tom Beesley, BJTC Chairman, [...]
The serious injuries to BBC’s Top Gear co-presenter Richard Hammond in a 300mph jet-powered car crash show how things can go wrong even in an organisation that gives safety high priority.
Under BBC rules there are risk assessments for everything and and extremely extensive range of safety courses. Concern about the safety of journalists in conflict [...]
Huge factual errors occur every day in newspapers, broadcasting and on the web because journalists just don’t do maths. The abysmal level of achievement in maths in schools can be blamed, but that is not an excuse.
Those of us involved in training young journalists must take part of the blame. We spend a lot of [...]
All sides are represented in a piece headed “What is the point of media studies?” by Tim Luckhurst in today’s Independent on Sunday. I had my say a week ago.
Proof that journalism training works. Kirsty Beever, six weeks into her first job at the Scarborough Evening Telegraph, had the confidence to stand up in court to dispute a prosecution request request for a restriction on reporting — and win.
The prosecution asked for a reporting ban on a speech in mitigation because it was derogatory. [...]
A debate over journalism education/training in Denmark echoes an opinion article in yesterday’s Observer by Mary Warnock who argues for elite academic institutions, saying: “The silliest thing Tony Blair ever said was that 50 per cent of the population should go to university.”
Supporting the rejected Tomlinson proposals for education reform, she writes:
Those who chose the [...]
Rod Liddle, former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, likes to be provocative and he lived up to his reputation in The Times yesterday, writing:
…what on earth is there to learn about journalism at postgraduate level? The point and purpose of our lowly, occasionally useful, trade could be scribbled on the back of a [...]
Kim Fletcher, writing the On the press column in Media Guardian today asks the question: “Would you let your daughter be a journalist?” The eventual answer is the “yes” that could be expected:
What if papers are dying? Surely no responsible parent would promote a moribund industry to his child? The two consistent messages of hope [...]
