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…
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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 live coverage of the budget. You can follow them at…
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……
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…
Their contempt for digital is your competitive edge
Lovely quote here from Wolfgang Blau, The Guardian‘s director of digital strategy: 5. Why (the hell) do so many young journalists still want to write the title story of a print (!) magazine? Why (the hell) would you even care?…
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…
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…
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…