Clare Sambrook shortlisted for the 2010 Paul Foot award
Last week I wrote about the tremendous efforts of journalist and author Clare Sambrook, who has taught me so much about about acts of journalism outside journalism through the campaign to end child...
View ArticleopenDemocracy: ‘Investigative Comment and the future of journalism on the web’
Today journalist and author Clare Sambrook won the Bevins Prize for Investigative Journalism 2010 and was presented with the Rat Up a Drainpipe trophy, for her reports on the website openDemocracy and...
View ArticleFollow the Face the Future conference in Coventry
I’m at Coventry University for its annual journalism conference. You can follow on Twitter via the tag #facethefuture, or watch the video afterwards on the BBC College of Journalism (will be up...
View ArticleUnpaid interns seek money back? Good luck with that…
I’ve half followed the debate about unpaid internships and Girish Gupta’s fight against the Indy. Initially, I couldn’t see how such cases would be successful, given that there’s no contract for...
View ArticleWhen does a workie become a worker?
Since I covered this issue on my blog at the weekend and I’ve noticed debate springing up elsewhere (Press Gazette / FSB: 1 & 2) I thought I’d post the work placement guidelines that have just...
View Article#sms2011: Small Media Initiative conference – the tweets
I’m at SOAS, London at the Small Media Symposium 2011. You can find the programme and more information here. Academics and media practitioners are presenting papers about “small media”, also known as –...
View ArticleA very short history of female national newspaper editors in the UK
Yesterday saw the announcement of Jill Abramson as the New York Times’ first female editor. You might say so what? But more to the point, why not till now? Former Guardian.co.uk editor Emily Bell...
View Article‘Robots in the basement’: How interactive media is changing journalism (and...
“I still can’t get over the feeling that Brian was a robot assembled in the basement of the New York Times to come and destroy me” New York Times’ David Carr (@carr2n), affectionately describing his...
View ArticleGeneration AudioBoo: how journalism students are interacting online
Cross-posted on the Online Journalism blog. The journalism class of 2012 has a pretty enviable opportunity to get their stuff out there; the development of online platforms like Twitter, Google+,...
View ArticleInteractive journalism: Learning by doing – on air
Cross-posted from the Online Journalism Blog. Around this time last year I wrote on this blog about ‘Generation Audioboo’ and the opportunities for anyone entering the field of digital journalism. A...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....