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Cuttings

Cuttings: YouTube, education and Ghost

Quick links in and around journalism from the interwebs, annotated for your reding pleasure.

news:rewired

Training and retaining the journalists of the future

How do we recruit and retain a more skilled, diverse staff of journalists? The final panel of news:rewired set out to answer that question.

crowd funding

Diverse journalism is better journalism: so please back PressPad

It's getting harder to get into journalism. That's not just down to the popularity of the profession, but the decline in routes in for those who aren't wealthy. PressPad is trying to fix that.

journalism education

OK, maybe Facebook is about to help the local press out… [UPDATED]

Press Gazette has revealed that Facebook is donating £4.5m to help train local journalists. But how sustainable is this?

digital production

Some follow up on the Google News Lab University Network

Two bits of feedback to yesterday’s piece on the Google News Lab University Network [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/12/fake-news-political-propaganda.html] . The Frenemy Dance > Remember when Google was the enemy in many publishers’ eyes? It appears it and Facebook have swapped… — Adam Tinworth (@adders) December 6,

academia

Google News Lab partnering with university journalism departments

Journalism education in the UK has a digital problem. I’ve worked with a number of universities offering journalism degrees now – and there’s a consistent pattern. While there are a few bright spots of very deep digital knowledge, it’s unevenly spread, even within individual departments. It’s no

City St George’s

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 [http://www.citybudgetreport.com] – I’d love to hear your feedback.

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 [http://qz.com/394426/i-am-editor-of-my-college-newspaper-and-the-job-i-trained-for-no-longer-exists/] : > 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

Journalism

Is nostalgia for print dooming journalism students to failure?

Merciless attack on print nostalgists [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2014/06/nostalgia-and-newspapering/] 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.

change management

Buttry academic goodness, the new home for digital journalism proponents?

Steve Buttry is heading into journalism education [http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/my-next-adventure-teaching-at-lsu/] : > 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

31-3-14

31-3.5 Advice for young interactive journalists

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/interhacktives-3584.html] Today, I taught my last formal class for this year’s class of Interhacktives at City University [http://www.interhacktives.com]. The two terms I teach them in have gone astonishingly quickly, but I’ve enjoyed it very much.

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