teaching What are the ingredients for creating a journalism portfolio? I’m currently putting together the details for one of my modules for Semester 2. It’s called Multiplatform Journalism and its aimed at first-year journalism students. The general aim is to introduce them to the idea of digital informed journalism in a genre agnostic way. In plain english – it
Pondering Email in a social media world A little observation I wanted to share. Over the summer I went away for a few weeks and put my out-of-office message on. At the same time I had a few students emailing me questions about assignments and I was surprised that some of them replied to my out-of-office as
academic Advice to journalism students for being online. Its getting to that point in the academic calendar where I’m writing documentation for the modules I’ll be teaching this year. Looking back over previous years, I’ve noticed how bits of information appear and disappear in the guidance notes I write; notes about certain types of kit
journalism Elite Media trolls, banter and journalism The Guardian’s James Ball has an interesting , and suitably search-bait-headlined, comment on internet trolls that’s worth a read. The last par is the kicker: The transformative promise of the internet was that it would shift control of the media agenda away from an elite group of editors to
journalism Argentina's Clarín gets to grip with convergence : exploring multilingual social media The wonders of Twitter, tweetdeck and google translate meant that I got an interesting insight into the way Clarín, the biggest newspaper in Argentina, is approaching the challenge of a converged newsroom. What caught my eye was a the visualization of the ‘new editorial cycle’ that journalism news site ELDSD
blogging On blogs and social media ennui My social media habits have changed over the years. I’ve never been particularly organised or disciplined so I tend to drift in and out of things – I have no strategy for my social media use. That may come as no surprise to some but what little impression I give
social media Ivory tower dispatch: Social networks are personal Over the last semester I’ve been spending a lot of time talking about the use of social networks; how and why they might be useful/important/problematic to journalists. But over the months I’ve been hearing an increasingly common complaint from students. The gist of the complaints is
journalism Ivory tower dispatch: Fast and slow journalism and innovation must die The Al Jazeera English newsroom – Not available as a google app (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A diverse range of things in the ivory tower this week. Balancing personal and professional social media identities was still on the agenda – the mantra was you might not use it but your boss might want
