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The importance of journalism and building communities

Saturday, February 12, 2011

What is an online community, how do you build a site or service to cater for one and how do journalists work to become relevant in one? These are the questions students on the MA journalism programme at City University in London are considering (I teach magazine journalism students there). The students have to identify [...]

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Tips for trainee journalists: be digital, promote yourself and find a niche

Friday, May 14, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Today I’m speaking to journalism students at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds, where I graduated with a journalism degree a few years back. Here’s a flavour of what I’m telling them, with some links and media for anyone that decided to turn up in person… It seems odd to be [...]

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Online journalism education in the UK: the trouble with adapting to an online age

Friday, January 8, 2010

When I went to journalism college in the middle of the last decade, the online element consisted of a few half days spent building static pages with outdated web design software. However, the course’s overall core skills were rigourously taught and I ended up in a reporting job immediately after graduating (albeit through somewhat unconvential [...]

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