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The critical need for verification skills in modern journalism education

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The critical need for verification skills in modern journalism education

A talk by the BBC's Mark Frankel reinforced the critical need for more verification skills in modern newsrooms

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Fake News - and how to fix it: a journalism debate at City University, London

Liveblogged notes from the “Fake News” event at City University, co-organised by The Media Society and the Student Publication Association. Prone to error, inaccuracy, horrible typos and screaming crimes against

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Budget 2016: live coverage with financial journalism students

It’s budget day, and the chancellor is up and speaking. And that means I’m in a room at City University, working the MA Financial Journalism students on their

Autumn Statement: student journalists at work

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Autumn Statement: student journalists at work

It’s my biannual spell in a student newsroom, as the financial journalism students at City University do frantic live coverage of the Government spending review: You can see their

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Morning nostalgia

I am having a deeply nostalgic day right now. Not only am I provisioning a new blog – just as I used to back in my days as RBI’s blogmeister – but today is a day of note, as this tweet suggests: 12 years ago

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Freedom of Information at 10: a debate

A panel discussion on the Freedom of Information Act after 10 years, held at City University, London. As Chair Roy Greenslade points out, we’re meeting in the shadow of Press Gazette being told that they should no longer make FOI requests to the

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Interhacktives: the resource for digital journalists relaunches

Like The Doctor in Doctor Who, every now and again, the Interhacktives website falls over, and then gets up looking different, with a changed outlook on life. Except The Doctor does this at irregular intervals. And Interhacktives does it once a year. Abandoning metaphor.

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Interhacktives: the best of digital journalism by e-mail

Really nice intiative from the Interactive Journalism MA students at City. They run the digital jouralism website Interhacktives as part of their course, as have the two generations that precdeeded them. This year’s cohort have added a neat e-mail newsletter to the line-up,

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One reason to love magazine journalism students...

I’m at City University all today, working with the Magazine and Interactive Journalism MAs. At one of the workshops that follow Paul‘s lectures, the students have to put up ideas for short talks on a white board. Usually, I get a neat

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Liveblogging commuter misery

Ah, synchronicity. Today, I’m working with the newspaper and interactive MA students at City University on liveblogging. And there’s a tube strike. So, of course, some of them are liveblogging the tube strike…

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Lunch advice from a journalism student

Just had a lousy lunch? Here’s some lunchbox advice from one of the MA Magazines students I teach at City: Instead of spending £7 at Pret or getting a £2.50 ‘meal deal’ from Boots (a sandwich, crisps and drink does NOT a

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Interhacktives 3.0: a new generation of online journalists

The third intake of Interactive Journalism MA students at City University have got the keys to the class blog, and are up and running: Here’s saying hello from we 3rd gen interhacktives! Since 2011, this site has chronicled the journeys of City University’

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Is print focus a dangerous distraction for young journalists?

I suppose I shouldn’t be by now, but I’m always surprised by how many journalism students are obsessed with print. I don’t mean in love with print – I still love some printed products – but actually still see print or online as

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Memeing Journalism Students

It is with a strange sense of pride that I present you with some more work from students on the City MA in Journalism – this time it’s the magazine journalism MAs: I think pride is the right word.

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How should journalists use social media? (a hangout)

When journalists use social media, should they blur professional and personal lines? My Interactive Journalism students at City University setup a Google+ Hangout (with some shepherding from Judith Townend) to discuss the issue, and I joined in with Nick Petrie from The Times and