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1. Come one, come all to the Carnival! | editor on the verge

   April 27th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

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   [...] before I could hit “Save,” along comes Andy Dickinson, faculty member at the University of Central Lancashire and prolific blogger (and apparently wine [...]

2. Does the digital newsroom change the way we do journalism? | Adam McClean

   October 27th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

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   [...] was until my lecturer Andy Dickinson introduced me to the wonder of twittering. Over the past week I’ve discovered a new way of [...]

3. Where does social media fit? | Rock Star PR

   January 3rd, 2009 at 3:36 pm

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   [...] we carry on; social media is a tool and not another part of marketing communications (although Andy Dickinson would argue that social media is a [...]

4. Christoph Schmitz » Høydepunkter fra RSS

   April 17th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

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   [...] stedet for å ”stæle” (tjukk L) lenkene til Andy Dickinson lenker jeg rett og slett bare til posten hans med lenker, masse bra å lese som for eksempel: Print [...]

5. Let the expenses data war commence: Telegraph begins its document drip feed | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

   June 19th, 2009 at 8:49 am

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   [...] Dickinson from the Department of Journalism at UCLAN sums up today’s announcement in this tweet: ‘Telegraph to drip-publish MP expenses [...]

6. Let the expenses data war commence: Telegraph begins its document drip feed | DAILYMAIL

   June 20th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

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   [...] Dickinson from the Department of Journalism at UCLAN sums up today’s announcement in this tweet: ‘Telegraph to drip-publish MP expenses [...]

7. Jennifer Kramer

   November 5th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

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   Andy,
   I think you will be interested in this story for your blog. Let me know if you would like more details about this story. The winners are available for interviews.

   Best regards,
   Jennifer

   For Immediate Release
   Media Contact: Jennifer L. Kramer
   Manager of Public Relations and Marketing
   College of Communication and Information
   131 Moulton Hall
   Kent State University
   Kent, OH 44242
   P 330-672-1960
   C 330-714-8302
   E jlkramer@kent.edu

   Two high school students, former scholastic newspaper adviser to receive Courage in Student Journalism Awards
   Kent, Ohio ─ (Nov. 2, 2009) ─ Two high school newspaper editors and a former student newspaper adviser will receive the fifth annual Courage in Student Journalism Awards at the National Scholastic Press Association/Journalism Education Association National Convention in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Nov. 14.

   This year’s winners are Seth Zweifler and Henry Rome, the current and immediate past editor in chief of the student newspaper, The Spoke, at Conestoga High School in Pennsylvania, and Barb Thill, former adviser of the student newspaper at Illinois’ Stevenson High School. The student winners will share a $1,000 prize and the adviser winner will receive $1,000 to support student journalists at her school.
   The Courage in Student Journalism Awards are presented each year to student journalists and school officials who have demonstrated exceptional support, despite resistance or difficult circumstances for student press freedom.

   Zweifler and Rome were responsible for some of the most remarkable student journalism published during 2008-09, including Rome’s June 2009 story, “Obligation to Report,” which detailed how a janitor at the local middle school was able to remain on the school district payroll despite multiple run-ins with the law, ending with his arrest on bank robbery charges.
   The article prompted the school administration to propose to demand prior approval of all student newspaper content before publication.

   Zweifler and Rome began a campaign utilizing all of the tools at their disposal – support from Spoke alumni, publicity in the local media and thorough research that responded with facts to the myths and misperceptions on which the district’s proposed policy relied. As a result of their work, the school reconsidered the policy proposal and dropped the requirement for pre-publication review by a school administrator.

   Student Press Law Center Executive Director Frank LoMonte said Zweifler and Rome are deserving of this honor because of their professional caliber and commitment journalistic freedom.
   “These winners exemplify the sad fact of life that provocative, hard-hitting student journalism is often celebrated with retaliation,” LoMonte said. “Exemplary journalistic work was met with a crackdown by administrators who believed that the best way to deal with unpleasant disclosures about their school systems was to stop the disclosures.”

   Thill, former adviser of Illinois’ Stevenson High School’s student newspaper the Statesman, was one of the most respected journalism educators in America when her students came under fire for a January 2009 package of articles documenting the prevalence of casual “hooking up” relations among teens, much of it alcohol-fueled.

   The articles shone a needed spotlight on an issue many parents were in denial about and presented a cautionary portrait of casual sex, including quotes from a school counselor and a local psychologist about lasting damage that could result. School officials set their sights on making an example of Thill and imposed mandatory prior review, robbing students of their autonomy to make the ultimate content decisions with their adviser’s input. As a result Thill chose to step down as journalism adviser.

   For consistently inspiring her students to produce solid, informative journalism that dares to tackle substantive issues, Thill is a worthy recipient of the 2009 Courage in Student Journalism Award, according to Mark Goodman, Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism, Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

   “Thill is an example of the price some of the most talented journalism educators pay for their commitment to teaching quality reporting,” Goodman said. “She is the kind of teacher who prepared young people to be active participants in our democracy. Her school cared more about its image than the truth. All of the students who are missing her training are the ones who ultimately suffer. Her courage and dedication has affected thousands of young people over the course of her career.”

   The awards, which are presented by the Center for Scholastic Journalism, the Student Press Law Center and the National Scholastic Press Association, will be given at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., before an audience of thousands of high school journalists and teachers.
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   About the Courage in Student Journalism Awards
   The presenting sponsor of the Courage in Student Journalism Awards is the Center for Scholastic Journalism. The Center for Scholastic Journalism, a program of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University, is a national clearinghouse of information for and about student journalists and their advisers, a research center on issues affecting scholastic media, an educator of journalism teachers and an advocate for student press freedom and the First Amendment. Co-sponsors of the award are the Student Press Law Center and the National Scholastic Press Association. Since 1974, the Student Press Law Center has been the only national organization exclusively devoted to providing free legal advice and assistance to student journalists and advisers and serving as an advocate for their free press and freedom of information rights. Founded in 1921, the National Scholastic Press Association and its college division, the Associated Collegiate Press, provide rating services and critical analyses for print and electronic student news media and sponsor the largest annual national conventions for student journalists and their advisers.

8. SpeakBindas

   November 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

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   Hey Andy,

   We would like to interview for http://www.SpeakBindas.com

   Unfortunately, couldn’t find your contact details on this blog. Let me know via email.

9. Matthew O'Connor

   January 18th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

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   Andy,

   Didn’t find your contact details on the site; I came across your series of articles on how newspapers are moving to video in 2008, and found it very interesting. Obviously a little out of date, but I’m a product manager for a video technology company called Edit, and we are working on a video product that I’m interested in targetting at this area and we could perhaps use your help.

   We are NW based, so drop me a line and we can talk in a bit more detail about it

   Cheers

   Matt