After years of awareness with regards to global warming it seems only now people are starting to take notice. The recent Extinction Rebellion protests throughout London have meant that climate change is finally a topic of discussion amongst MP’s within the House of Commons. In which time over 1000 people were inevitably arrested, including British […]
First year students please note that the shorthand class on Tuesday 1 June will be from 09.30 – 10.30 in M0-24.
One of the most senior figures in BBC News says Director-General Mark Thompson was wrong to oppose publicly News Corp’s attempt to take control of BSkyB. Stephen Mitchell, Deputy Director of News and Head of News Programmes at the BBC, said that by signing a letter to Vince Cable last month opposing the move by News Corp, […]
St Margarets logo.png Here’s an interesting job opportunity that might be attractive for the right Centre for Journalism graduate/near-graduate. It’s a multimedia Community Journalist role paid for by St Margaret’s Church in Rainham, Kent. The job spec says: “Half of the stories you produce will focus on the local community – its people and groups, […]
Remember, you have 4 transfers available before the start of the final on Sunday. You can also change your captain for the final. The transfers and captains must be made before 6:30pm on Sunday 1st July. ********************************************************************************************** And so it comes down to Sunday’s final. A rollercoaster few weeks has come down to one 90 […]
ARTIST: Various Artists. ALBUM: Ministry of Sound: Anthems II 1991-2009. RELEASED: December 2008. GENRE: Dance (Electronica, House, Techno, Trance etc). MY ALBUM RATING: **** PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR TRACK LISTINGS*  “Dance to disco and you don’t like rock,” said Neil Tennant, the other half of the electronic dance music duo, Pet […]
Audio of my talk at King’s College On Sound Cloud – https://soundcloud.com/warstudies/africas-long-road-since-independence-t… […]
Darrisaw_0.webp From worst to first? – Hopes for 2021 Vikings OL post-draft Minnesota Vikings fans have been incredibly vocal of their team’s Offensive Line issues over the last few years, and it looks like GM Rick Spielman echoed those concerns going into this year’s draft. The 2020 season was not very […]
MA Journalism students at the centre have produced a sensational set of results from the NCTJ’s Production Journalism exam last month. Every single student passed with a grade B or higher. And four of the eleven achieved a grade A: Joe Downes, Karolina Kaminska, Lizzie Massey and Kat Purvis. Claire Burke, Kay Choudhury, Laura Garcia, […]
In the past week Richard and I have been unpacking various exciting boxes of kit in the newsroom in our continuing quest to make the Centre for Journalism the most convergent operation in the land. One of these new toys journalism tools we’ve been messing about with conducting rigorous test upon, and which second year students will be […]
Good to see our graduate Frances Acquaah in The Guardian recently. Here she is: http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/30/black-dstrkt-london… Well done, Frances
This picture is my favourite picture I’ve seen, just thought I would share with everyone, and also promote the exhibition at the Natural History Musuem, its amazing!
This blog accidentally got deleted, so I’ve re-pasted it here. Media regulator Ofcom’s 2008 proposals of the BBC subsidising rival media organisations with a possibility of £150m being offered to commercial channels’ regional news output and children’s television programmes is becoming a reality ahead of the 2012 Digital Britain switchover. Those proposals have since been transformed to government […]
We’ve always known we’re providing exceptional journalism teaching here at the CfJ, and it seems that our students agree too. No fewer than six members of Centre for Journalism staff have been nominated in Kent Union’s annual teaching awards. These are the awards run entirely by university students to recognise and reward those academics who […]
Amongst all the doom and gloom in the news these days, a funny little story caught my eye earlier today. It appears that a Polish newspaper has confused the infamous ‘Pedobear’ meme with an Olympic mascot. Apologies to those who don’t understand the reference. http://telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7187027/Polish-n… The Internet would like to extend a collective ‘facepalm’ to the […]
Among the less tolerable flaws in western quality journalism is the tendency to fixate on an important story for a week or so, giving it blanket coverage,and then to forget about it. This rarely means that the story has simply stopped. It can mean no more than that editors have decided it is no longer interesting. It can mean that […]
The Telegraph’s graduate training scheme is open for applications, with a closing date of November 29. Some details of the scheme site are on the Telegraph’s web site, although rather cunningly they don’t include any instructions as to how to actually apply – presumably applicants have to demonstrate some investigative journalism in finding out. The […]
Ian team @ 1630 Richard team @ 1700 Jacqueline Gordon Presenter Ben Kosma Presenter Alistair Iveson Presenter Monica Samia Presenter Lauren Meechan Jake Taylor Andrae Akeh Sarah Boast Abigail Nuttall Adrien Serre Vinesh Parmar Kristian Eskedal Emily Rouse Charles Wagstaff Danny Rust Abigail Morris […]
The deadline for signing up for December’s NCTJ Essential Journalism and press relgulation exams is fast-approaching. Please check your emails. Nicola will be looking for confirmation that you want to do the exams by Wednesday 15 November. Angela
I found Google boss Eric Schmidt’s comments to the American Newspaper Association this week a tad provocative. So I wrote this. It has attracted the usual barrage of ranting. I find it difficult to grasp why people find it hard to perceive Google as a company as driven by the profit motive as News International or […]
So many touching tributes came in on social media following the very sad news about our former colleague Ron Green that became hard to keep up with them. I’ve made a collection here of the ones that I saw on Twitter – but it’s possible I missed others. Let me know if that’s the case. […]
This is Matt Frei’s prose poem on the financial cataclysm. I think this is wonderful writing to pictures, and both words and pictures have great rhythym: “the SUV, the large TV”. Also, Frei is good with pauses: he lets the pictures breathe. Wonderful. Scroll down on this page to “Rotten Roots of the Crunch” to […]
We talked a few weeks ago about how one Frontline News cameraman, Peter Jouvenal, failed to get the credit for his footage from the fall of Kabul and missed out on an Emmy award. The other surviving Frontline founder member, Vaughan Smith, wrote this piece in today’s Guardian on the same theme. As a freelancer, […]
Please note room for Friday’s combined shorthand class has changed to PK014.
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