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 the reasons I like being in education is it allows me to have a foot in both camps and, importantly, [...]

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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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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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Neil Mcintosh has a bit of advice for jdeans and jstudents out there. Watch the Guardian’s US correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg ‘on the hustle’
Suzanne’s in fine form as she beetles round interviewing campaign workers, fending off absurd requests from officials to stop doing what every good reporter does - asking lots, and lots, of questions. You [...]

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Alf Hermida posted a video he saw at the at the Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Workshop at UC Berkeley. It’s the latest incarnation of the Did you know? presentation which has been doing the rounds since 2006 and it’s great.
In the context of journalism education, it highlights how we need to prepare students for [...]

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You may (or may not know) that I work at UCLan’s Department of Journalism.
My colleagues have been hard at work promoting what the department does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW11mkI9PF8

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Paul Bradshaw continues his essential series on Newsroom of the 21st century with a look at what should happen to your story after it goes online.
He amplifies a great point about the permanent nature of a webpage and its place as an anchor for your story to develop.
I like this idea. Almost a year ago [...]

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Bryan Murley twittered that he was looking to re-find his blogging mojo. Well looking at his last two post I don’t think he needs worry.
Two very nice video clips from Andrew DeVigal and Paul Conley on what they think J -students need to learn to get a job.

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