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 censorship 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
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 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 felix 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, in my first year
Free Post cub 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 journey since then, but
Free Post blogs 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 guest lecture to this
Free Post estates gazette 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’ve been allowing their
Free Post kilroy 1992: Beards, Politics & Graduate Unemployment Another blast from the VHS past: here’s a clip from a 1992 episode of Kilroy, featuring me in my student union activist days, opining about graduate unemployment:
Free Post journalism One Man & His Set Text My, my. I’m on students’ reading lists now. Whatever will my lecturer wife make of that? 🙂
Free Post academia The UK's Educational Death Spiral A couple of things caught my eye in the papers over lunch *(I know, I know. Dead tree papers. How very 20th century of me.) *The first up was this piece about the declining standard of UK graduates, found in the business section of
