journalism Am I responsible for a shitty freelance market? Yesterday I posted about using Medium as a platform for my second year students. In passing I mentioned that Contributoria also looked like a good bet. That led to a brief exchange with Sarah Hartley (editor at Contributoria) which also included Leeds Met uni
journalism 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 writing. I spent a bit of time talking about headlines and how important they are in the digital world. They’re
journalism 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
Education 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 and the NCTJ, have both been in looking at
Education The value of a journalism degree [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Recently I came across an interesting new blog called [Wannabe Hacks](http://wannabehacks.wordpress.com/). (@wannabehacks) It’s a group blog from three people all taking a different route in to journalism. It’s an interesting idea and one
Education Students don't read newspapers Shock! [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[![Sherlock Holmes in "The Red-Headed League.](https://i2.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Redh-02.jpg/202px-Redh-02.jpg?resize=202%2C221 "Sherlock Holmes in "The Red-Headed League.")](https://i2.wp.com/commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Education Ignoring icebergs: The NCTJ and sinking ships. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[](https://i0.wp.
Education Seesmic and the newspaper debate [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)**UPDATE: [Paul has a great blog post summing up the issues.](http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/07/23/should-journalism-degrees-still-prepare-students-for-a-news-industry-that-doesnt-want-them/)** Paul Bradshaw has been doing a little ‘pre-blogging’ over at Seesmic with a question about what we should be teaching journalism
Education Photojournalism Ethics is an ivory tower. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I’m often reminded as my status as a lecturer. It’s usually in that* ‘it may work for you in your ivory tower, but this is the real world sonny’* way, but I don’t mind. One of
