Free Post journalism education OK, maybe Facebook is about to help the local press out… [UPDATED] Press Gazette has revealed that Facebook is donating £4.5m to help train local journalists. But how sustainable is this?
Free Post social media verification 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
Free Post digital production Some follow up on the Google News Lab University Network Two bits of feedback to yesterday’s piece on the Google News Lab University Network. The Frenemy Dance Remember when Google was the enemy in many publishers’ eyes? It appears
Free Post academia Google News Lab partnering with university journalism departments Journalism education in the UK has a digital problem. I’ve worked with a number of universities offering journalism degrees now – and there’s a consistent pattern. While there are
Free Post city university 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
Free Post journalism The print-digital tension, through the eyes of a student Here’s a very interesting piece from a student newspaper editor in the US: My peers are interested in reading news, but they have no loyalties whatsoever about where it comes from. You can be the greatest columnist in the world, but it will
Free Post journalism Is nostalgia for print dooming journalism students to failure? Merciless attack on print nostalgists from Clay Shirky: The most important fight in journalism today isn’t between short vs. long-form publications, or fast vs. thorough newsrooms, or even incumbents vs. start-ups. The most important fight is between realists and nostalgists. He builds a
Free Post change management Buttry academic goodness, the new home for digital journalism proponents? Steve Buttry is heading into journalism education: The next chapter of my career will be at Louisiana State University. After I wrap up my work at Digital First Media July 1, I will become the Lamar Visiting Scholar at LSU’s Manship School of
Free Post 31-3-14 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
Free Post city university 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
Free Post education Learning, emulation and voice How unexpected was that? A Bank Holiday weekend, and beautiful weather the whole time. Gorgeous. At least, that’s what I hear. Personally, I was stuck inside marking, a result of having spent part of the past nine months or so as a pretend
Free Post city university 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
Free Post aggregation Evening whisky reading, 13th April 2011 Because sometimes, you just have to get those tabs out of that browser: Idio and The Guardian partner to develop content delivery service – I’m convinced we should be doing more combination curated and algorithmic aggregation and discovery. Content is no longer rare. Selection
Free Post carnival of journalism Carnival of Journalism: All The Uni Posts David Cohn has linked to all the Carnival of Journalism posts on the role of universities, in an epic piece of aggregation. There’s some meaty writing in there, that’s worth spending some time on over a coffee break. There’s a conversation
Free Post carnival of journalism Research and radical reinvention: universities' role in journalism Carnival of Journalism: It’s back, and this time it’s personal… David Cohn has brought the journalism blog carnival back from its grave. For those who haven’t experienced blog carnivals in the past, they’re an excuse for a group of bloggers
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