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Posts about City St George’s, London and its journalism department in particular

Freedom of Information at 10: a debate Members Public

A panel discussion on the Freedom of Information Act after 10 years, held at City University, London. [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/city-uni-foi-at-10-panel.jpg] As Chair Roy Greenslade [http://www.theguardian.com/profile/roygreenslade] points out, we’re meeting in the shadow of Press

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
City St George’s

Interhacktives: the resource for digital journalists relaunches Members Public

Like The Doctor in Doctor Who, every now and again, the Interhacktives website [http://www.interhacktives.com] 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. Interhacktives is

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
City St George’s

Interhacktives: the best of digital journalism by e-mail Members Public

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/02/Screen%20Shot%202014-02-19%20at%2010.10.45-3538.html] Really nice intiative from the Interactive Journalism MA students at City. They run the digital jouralism website Interhacktives [http://www.interhacktives.com] as part of their course, as have the two generations that

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
City St George’s

One reason to love magazine journalism students... Members Public

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2014/02/jYpPBkIL10xyws71-3530.html] I’m at City University all today, working with the Magazine and Interactive Journalism MAs. At one of the workshops that follow Paul [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/]‘s lectures, the students have to put up ideas for short talks on a

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
City St George’s

Liveblogging commuter misery Members Public

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2014/02/T7CSvIcTs7fvlQRr-3508.html] Ah, synchronicity. Today, I’m working with the newspaper and interactive MA students at City University on liveblogging. And there’s a tube strike. So, of course, some of them are liveblogging the tube strike [http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
City St George’s

Lunch advice from a journalism student Members Public

Just had a lousy lunch? Here’s some lunchbox advice [http://checkthis.com/lunchboxshit] from one of the MA Magazines students I teach at City: > Instead of spending £7 at Pret or getting a £2.50 ‘meal deal’ from Boots (a sandwich, crisps and drink does NOT a meal

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
City St George’s

Interhacktives 3.0: a new generation of online journalists Members Public

The third intake of Interactive Journalism MA students at City University have got the keys to the class blog, and are up and running [http://www.interhacktives.com/2013/11/13/welcome-back/]: > Here’s saying hello from we 3rd gen interhacktives! Since 2011, this site has chronicled the journeys

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
City St George’s

Is print focus a dangerous distraction for young journalists? Members Public

[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/street-newspaper-vendor.jpg] 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
City St George’s