Free Post interhacktives 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
Free Post budget 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
Free Post interhacktives 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’
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 digital journalism 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
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 city university 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.
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 data journalism The dangers and rewards of Data Journalism Allison Schrager has a problem with data journalism: But I worry that data give commentary a false sense of authority since data analysis is inherently prone to bias. The author’s priors, what he believes or wants to be true before looking at the
Free Post diversity Diversity makes for better journalism Today was a good day. A hard and difficult day, to be sure, but a good day. Around teaching the Newspaper MA students, and a meeting with Jon and Ben about the Interactive MA, I was with the Financial Journalism MA students at city,
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 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,
Free Post journalism students By way of comparison Remember the magazine students from last week? Here, by way of comparison, is the equivalent board from the financial journalism students:
Free Post city university One reason to love magazine journalism students... I’m at City University all today, working with the Magazine and Interactive Journalism MAs. At one of the workshops that follow Paul‘s lectures, the students have to put up ideas for short talks on a white board. Usually, I get a neat
