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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 held their annual conference and awards – and my students took…
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’re tagged on Twitter just so the student earns praise……
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 – who created the slide – is a former student of mine.…
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…
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…
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…
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…