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Am I responsible for a shitty freelance market?

Yesterday I posted about using Medium as a platform for my second year students [http://digidickinson.net/2014/08/26/the-right-medium-for-student-work/]. In passing I mentioned that Contributoria [http://www.contributoria.com] also looked like a good bet. That led to a brief exchange with Sarah Hartley [https://twitter.com/foodiesarah]

Is the BBC really a useful benchmark for online journalism?

his semester my Monday mornings are spend in the company of our Foundation Degree students and this morning I was talking about Online [http://www.bbc.co.uk] writing. I spent a bit of time talking about headlines and how important they are in the digital world. They’re not

Essential vitamins for your journalism

It’s that time of year again where I find myself doing a tour of various rooms and buildings introducing myself to new students. By a quirk of timetabling and course structures I don’t get to see many of them to teach until later in the year. So I

Educating the competition out of journalism

Over the last month my department has had a number of accreditation visits. Two of the training councils that, in the UK at least, inspect, accredit and generally rubber stamp what we do, the BJTC [http://www.bjtc.org.uk/] and the NCTJ [http://www.nctj.com/], have both been