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# Institutional Knowledge Transfer (journalism edition)
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2012/10/institutional_knowledge_transfer_journal/
- Published: 2012-10-15T17:40:16.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:46:16.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: academia, City St George’s, digital journalism, interhacktives, Journalism, online journalism

[![A City University lecture room](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/city-uni-lecture-room-thumb-640x253-2837.jpg?resize=640%2C253)](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/city-uni-lecture-room.jpg?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)Actually, as annoyed as I am with BT – 11 days without phone and broadband and counting – that’s far from the only reason I’ve been quiet. I’ve been to Berlin for [NEXT Service Design](http://nextberlin.eu/tag/next-service-design/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "NEXT Service Design 2012"), which took my focus away from here. I have a small and unpredictable baby who makes working from home an interesting challenge sometimes. (She’s giving my wife a hard time and pretty much refusing to sleep, even as I write this…) But equally, I’ve taken on a new part-time role that’s consuming a lot of my time as I get used to it.

At the beginning of this academic year, I started as a visiting lecturer on the [journalism MA at City University](http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/journalism?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). I’m online lab tutor for the Magazine and Financial journalism students, and running the community and social media module (part of the [Interactive Journalism MA](http://www.city.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/interactive-journalism?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "MA: interactive Journalism")) with [Judith Townend](http://meejalaw.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Judith Townend: Meeja Law"). I’m really enjoying it – but getting up to speed is taking me some time. (It’s also amusing my wife hugely; she’s a proper lecturer – in molecular biology – and is finding my baby steps into academia entertaining.)

The *contretemps* I had [with Joanna Geary at Hacks/Hackers Brighton](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/09/joanna%5Fgeary%5Fso%5Fthat%5Fonline%5Fcommunity%5Fst.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Hacks/Hackers Brighton: September 2012") a couple of months ago actually helped me decide that this was the right thing to do. Underlying my challenge to her about a version of online community-oriented journalism history that began in 2008 was the loss of institutional knowledge that so many of our publishing companies have suffered in recent years, as the 2006-era online innovators get pushed out, and younger (cheaper?) people brought in instead. There’s a discontinuity, a lack of working overlap between the groups that means experiences are forgotten, lessons lost.

Well, teaching at a university, embedding those lessons into a new generation of journalists, is fun, and it helps solve the problem. What’s lost to one company, benefits many. That’s got to be good for journalism.