journalism students
Training and retaining the journalists of the future Paid Members Public
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.
Interhacktives wins best student specialist publication Paid Members Public
I’m extremely proud to say that the Interhacktives [http://www.interhacktives.com] — students on the MA Interactive Journalism at City, University of London — won an award over the weekend. The Student Publication Association [http://spajournalism.com] held their annual conference and awards – and my students took home a prize:
Budget 2016: live coverage with financial journalism students Paid Members Public
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 [https://www.city.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/financial-journalism] students on their live coverage of the budget. You can follow them at their Budget
The fun of student banter Paid Members Public
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… > @TalFox [https://twitter.com/_TalFox_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]
Autumn Statement: student journalists at work Paid Members Public
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.
Their contempt for digital is your competitive edge Paid Members Public
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 a print (!) magazine? Why (the hell) would you even care? Let them. If they have contempt for digital journalism,
The print-digital tension, through the eyes of a student Paid Members Public
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
Interhacktives: the resource for digital journalists relaunches Paid 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
