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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A collection of 11 posts
City Students Union votes to ban Mail, Sun and Express
We are clearly living in interesting times. There are political moves afoot in the student union at City, University of London (where I lecture), to adopt the Stop Funding Hate approach (see post passim). That’s led to a student…
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……
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.…
Student Protests, 1989 Style
[](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/11/Scan-101114-0025-Version-2.jpg)November 1989. I was not long turned 18,…
Student Journalists: Ones to Watch
A very long time ago – in the 1980s in fact – I got my start in journalism working on the Imperial College student newspaper* Felix*, before going on to edit the Queen Mary student rag, Cub. It’s been a long…
Facing The Future of Journalism (and liking it)
I’ve gone a bit quiet, haven’t I? Sorry about that, but I’ve been busy, holidaying and sick, but not necessarily in that order. One element of the busyness was this: Yes, I was back in Cardiff to…
21st Century Work Experience for Aspiring Journos
I hope you’ll excuse me another link to the Estates Gazette Focus team’s blog (I used to be part of that team, and I have a huge soft spot for them), but I’m just loving that they’…