City St George’s
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The latest annual issue from our MA Magazine journalism students
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.
interhacktives
Interhacktives wins best student specialist publication
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
Budget 2016: live coverage with financial journalism students
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
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’re tagged on Twitter just so the student earns praise… > @TalFox [https://twitter.com/_TalFox_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]
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.
digital journalism
Their contempt for digital is your competitive edge
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,
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
City St George’s
Interhacktives: the resource for digital journalists relaunches
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
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
data journalism
The dangers and rewards of Data Journalism
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/photo-3631.html] Allison Schrager has a problem with data journalism [http://qz.com/189703/the-problem-with-data-journalism/]: > But I worry that data give commentary a false sense of authority since data analysis is inherently prone to bias. The author’s priors, what