By Danny Lee Contributor: Michael Morgan Bain – with many thanks James Murdoch opened the floodgates to hell on Friday night and reopened old wounds as he delivered 34th James MacTaggart Lecture from the Edinburgh International Television Festival. The commercial media sector is in some form of agreement with Murdoch Jnr as he describes the […]
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With just three days before Donald J. Trump stands in front of the US Capitol in Washington D.C. to take the oath of office and be inaugurated to arguably the highest office in the globe, it seems like an opportune time to look at what makes the man beneath the hair. It has been common […]
The first part of Rory Caroll, Guardian south America Correspondent’s, three-part investigation from the Juarez valley, rotten heartland of Mexican drug cartel violence, is an important story made gripping by truly superb writing. His introductory paragraph is sublime, among the most compelling I have read in recent months. This is serious, public-service journalism at its […]
As capitalism struggles with its internal contradictions (copyright K.Marx) it seems that Britain’s daily newspaper for communists is bucking the market. The Morning Star, which once used to survive largely by virtue of a huge order by the Soviet Embassy, is hiring new staff and investing in increased pagination. I hope it does not use them to run banner […]
(This piece was initially published on Backbench UK here, you can find my profile here, and if you’re really interested – my final project should be done at the end of March) When I awoke, bleary-eyed, at a quarter to seven on Wednesday morning to the sound of Radio 4 telling me the government had […]
A reminder that the first presentation in our research seminar series takes place tomorrow at noon in the undergraduate newsroom. Prof. Geoffrey Craig will be talking on “Pleasure and Political Participation in Green Lifestyle Journalism.” We hope to see you there.
This week (Monday 30/11) a newspaper innovation is launched that can help the free world’s news industry to recover the prosperity it first achieved in the in the nineteenth century. Johnston Press, Britain’s most prolific newspaper owner with 286 titles, will place the online content of six of its local titles behind pay walls. Online […]
PA-media-logo-e1578405876319.jpg PA Media is looking for a Regional Reporter to cover Yorkshire and the north east of England for one of the UK’s key newsgathering organisations. We need an accomplished self-starter who can turn their hand to everything from high profile court cases to human interest stories, producing fast, fair and accurate copy. We […]
Following the SNP’s astonishing victory in last week’s Scottish Parliamentary election I was determined to raise the question of who has the authority to consent to the break up of the United Kingdom. Alex Salmond insists that this is a question for Scottish voters only. I think he is wrong. Union was the consequence of […]
The Frontline Club is discussing Reporting Conflict this Wednesday at 7.00pm. http://frontlineclub.com/events/2011/10/on-the-media.html This is a great opportunity to network, learn tricks of the trade and see real journalism in action. Sara Malm and I are heading up there, tickets are £8 for students so if you fancy coming along give one of us a shout! […]
I have now added another pair of spectacles to my collection. These ones were found in the newsroom at the beginning of the week so I suspect they belong to a new student. Please come and see me if you think they are yours.
If you’re coming through clearing to join us at CfJ this year and haven’t yet sorted out where you’re living, you might be interested in looking at the super-fantastic space we’ve still got for our house! Three (soon-to-be) second year students are looking for another journalism student to join us in our house next year […]
960×0.jpg I’m sure you can gather what this post will be about. But before we talk about the film, I’d like to give some context. You can skip it if you like, it just means you aren’t interested in me as a person: My closest friends […]
This message just in from Val Harper, foreign manager at the Sunday Times: On behalf of the Tom Walker Trust, The Sunday Times would like to invite proposals from your journalism students suggesting a foreign news story. They should submit their entry by email directly to me, they can submit more than one idea. The […]
Labour yesterday revealed their new election campaign poster, depicting David Cameron as the admittedly cool TV cop character Gene Hunt. In an election that seems like it’s going to be decided by who has the most unique and original campaign poster, I personally think Labour have scored a massive own goal with this one. Why? Firstly, […]
How many people stop consuming the work of someone who’s personal life’s corruptions are dragged into the spotlight too? Well, with the ‘cancel culture’ that has rapidly evolved, it can safely be said that it is something society debates more today than it ever did. The polarizing discussion: can we separate the artist from the […]
Fashion is an industry where taking risks is considered the norm, or at least it should be. At every event there’s always some sort of analysis of a person’s less than safe choice, even if it hasn’t turned out looking exactly like it should, they still get brownie points for the effort and choosing something […]
Sign up to the ‘Kent Students’ blog; create content about your life and study at Kent and earn Employability Points.The idea is that current Kent students write about aspects of student, extra-curricular or academic life to really give prospective students an insight into life here at the University. The blog is a fantastic way to hone […]
We are going to start work on live reporting next week so I request that all students come to both classes next week, on Monday 29 December and Wednesday 1 November. I hope to have two different people from the BBC, both hugely experienced in live reporting, working with you both in the newsroom and in […]
The sites News International hopes will persuade readers of the Times and Sunday Times to pay for online journalism were launched this morning. Take a close look. They are free to view for the first month, but will retreat behind a paywall after we’ve all had a good chance to sample the wares. Will the experiment generate revenue […]
Malta is a small country with a long, rich history, a place like no other in this world, daintily perched on the periphery of Europe; it lies south of Sicily, north of Africa, a strategic position which made the archipelago a contested region during the Second World War. That being said, it is the country’s […]
Does anyone else hate writing blogs? As of now I’ve got about half an hour to crack this out before I wrap some Christmas presents and head off to pre- drinks. Hopefully the sea of late submissions from my fellow blog dodgers (I know you’re out there, I cant be the only one, right?) Wash […]
The results for the shorthand exam taken on 26 March are now published on the NCTJ website. Many congratulations to all second years who passed. If you cannot access them, let me know.
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