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The Basics of Digital Journalism: Attention and Atomisation

There are two fundamental concepts needed to understand digital journalism. Here's a quick primer.

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Interhacktives wins best student specialist publication

I’m extremely proud to say that the Interhacktives — students on the MA Interactive Journalism at City, University of London — won an award over the weekend. The Student Publication Association

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The fun of student banter

Pretty much since I started teaching at City, I’ve ended up bantering with my students on Twitter. Here’s some examples: Sometimes they just want brownie points When you’

Making incredible journalism from the past and the present

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Making incredible journalism from the past and the present

Here’s a tweet that cheers me immensely: Core message for journalism on social media says @BethAshton #NewslabMCR pic.twitter.com/DLI7fJLtjT — Alison Gow (@alisongow) October 16, 2015 Beth Ashton

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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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31-3.5 Advice for young interactive journalists

Today, I taught my last formal class for this year’s class of Interhacktives at City University. The two terms I teach them in have gone astonishingly quickly, but I’ve enjoyed it very much. I’m looking forward to seeing what they do

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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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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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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

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A small milestone (and what people miss about journalism)

I just got my first click-through to this site from a blog written by one of my students on the City University journalism MA. It’s a small milestone, but one that made me oddly happy. Thanks for the link, Jess. I rather like

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Interhacktive Reading: 18/10/12

Some community-related links, mainly for my community and social media module students at City University – but shared for the betterment of all… Daily Record suspends comments on football articles – classic scale problem, letting a culture problem go unresolved for too long. The vexing issue

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Institutional Knowledge Transfer (journalism edition)

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, which took my focus away from here. I