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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 grammar and syntax. Post will be improved over the next…
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 live coverage of the budget. You can follow them at…
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 work at the Autumn Statement site – I’d love to…
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…
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…
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…
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…