A quick post to say congratulations to the students who did well at the Press Gazette Student Journalism Awards. Students won in the radio journalist of the year and student team of the year categories. Well done to them and all involved.
A special mention though to Frida Larsson who won Student Multimedia Journalist of the [...]

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My department has an outpost in China and Matt (our man in china) sent word of a project based on Google groups that his students have been involved with called Life and Death, Love and Pain: Snapshots of Sichuan Earthquake
On the site, one of the people working on it explains the [...]

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I’m involved in two days of an exciting Meld project and as part of that I am showing ( or may mention) a number of bits of technology and services. I needed a place to put the links to access them and thought I would share them here.
It’s all stuff that has made me [...]

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I have won some money (well, funding) to do some research. This is both good (it’s always nice to win) and scary (more for the research community than anyone else.
Sandbox (see their site to get an idea of what they do as Iwould just make a hash of explaining it) offers grants for people in [...]

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Here is a little quote to start the post.
“If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly.”
Responding to the general discussion about who is working the digital news vein, Pat Thornton has posted another take on the problems with management pointing out that Management should reflect demographics [...]

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Mark S. Luckie over at 10,000 words has posted his top ‘best of the best’ student media websites from the US.
The winner for him is the Alligator from Florida U.
The Alligator is hands down the best online student newspaper and rivals the pros in its news coverage and use of multimedia elements. Just listing the [...]

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What’s the story?
It’s a common question in journalism. But like so many things is the ‘story’ about to go?
Kevin Marsh has been pondering (and his pondering is worth noting) how his ‘announcement’ of the death of the story is coming back to bite him. It started in and article he wrote [...]

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A great line from Alexandre Gamela thinking about Lisa Williams’ Ten Things Journalists Should Know About Surviving In a High-Tech Industry post:

[F]iring journalists doesn’t lead to an increase in newspaper competitivity, it just increases the number of competitors, since a single journalist can create it’s own media, and shadow the company who fired him.

A good [...]

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