NPLP are off to Wembley this week, and what better way to celebrate this joyous occasion by talking all things England vs. Spain. Don’t worry though, the regular features like Premier League review, quote of the week and top three are all there for your lovely listening. Remember to keep sending in your emails to […]
For a very brief introduction to popular newspaper coverage of WWII – including the films that were box office favourites during the Blitz and details of how Blackpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers competed with Arsenal and Everton in the League Championship – follow this link to the site I mentioned in our seminar. You will find out which newspaper asked “What would have happened […]
For anyone not completely swamped by essays, revision or shorthand practice at the end of term, Wannabe Hacks are hosting a Christmas social in London on December 12th. It’ll be a chance to meet other aspiring journalists, share work experience tales and shorthand woes, and enjoy some mulled wine and mince pies. For more information, […]
After being exposed as a closet geek by Ian this week I thought I might as well stop repressing the urge to blog about the various techno-stories that surface. This Tuesday is a huge week in the Mac-world, with Apple confirming that ‘the spotlight turns to notebooks’ when they hold a press event at their […]
Pity I only just spotted this piece about journalists being monitored and followed by police at a demonstration at Kingsnorth power plant just up the road. Would have been a good subject to bring up at this morning’s visit from their press officers.
Stewart Kirkpatrick, former editor of Scotsman.com, has announced plans to launch a quality online national newspaper for Scotland. You can read the details here. Will it work? Stewart was a member of the team I managed at the Scotsman. He is among the most dedicated, diligent and sophisticated journalists I know. He understands the web from […]
How can someone say this with consistency? This is a very common phrase- it means that the person is aware that the artwork required a large amount of skill and thought. They can say that they appreciate the talent, but it doesn’t mean that it evokes positive emotions. Maybe they don’t like the colours or […]
I have had to re-arrange next week’s NCTJ revision session. It will now take place on Wednesday 23 in the newsroom at 2pm. Please make every effort to attend this session. Paul
BROADCAST JOURNALISM Coursework Instructions All coursework for the NCTJ Broadcast Journalism Module must be handed in by 4pm on 11 June. You can submit work which has previously been submitted as assessed work for your university assessments. Any questions, see me. Richard Candidates may choose from the following options: […]
The storm surrounding the Mail on Sunday’s scoop about the country’s first Youth Police and Crime Commissioner began during a live interview on BBC Breakfast. Kent PCC Ann Barnes, keen to show off her new invention, was asked whether a teenager with a criminal record could have been handed the £15,000pa role. She wriggled a […]
We will complete the second law syllabus on Friday then have a short test based around libel and its defences. Read your notes and McNae chapters 17 – 20.
If anybody’s planning to stay up/get up early to check on progress in the election across the pond, it might be worth checking out the New York Times’s various interactive gizmos – including a pop-up election dashboard, and video updates every half hour from the NYT newsroom.
Last Saturday, the final of the 92nd Miss America pageant saw 23-year-old Mallory Hagan from Brooklyn, New York win the coveted title of Miss America 2013. Ms Hagan, who won a $50,000 college scholarship, plans to spend her title reign raising money for children’s charities. However, whilst Miss America 2013 and her predecessors use […]
Take a look at this story which appeared in yesterday’s edition of the Londonpaper. It’s about a burst water main causing chaos around London Bridge. We get par after par on the tragic disruption to GMTV, including the intensely moving details of the weather presenter being (sob!) unable to dry her hair. Then scroll down to the […]
The 2019 ITV News Traineeship goes live on week today. http://itvjobs.com/denied/entry-careers-old/news-traineeship1/
Every year many people find themselves lying at home judging the Met Gala outfits in their pyjamas. I myself am very guilty of this and feel as though I become a fashion expert whilst adjudicating them. The designs, the creativity and being invited to the Met Gala is a very big deal. However, one thing […]
As Lord Leveson begins his work, Times Higher Education invited me to consider the broad significance of the phone hacking scandal. It matters, hacking is almost always utterly wrong (almost, not always) but it would be foolish to imagine it is the most serious issue facing journalism or that it deserves entirely the ferocious storm […]
Marks and feedback sheets for Year 3 projects will be available from Anastasia’s office from tomorrow morning.
headlines.JPG So, the end of the football season is nearly upon us….nine months of trekking up and down the country following your club through thick and thin has nearly passed. This has always been the case for me, since I was a little boy going along with my dad. But this year has been different, […]
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The return of the Premier League gets the boys talking about Chelsea’s win at Tottenham, the Kick It Out campaign shirt protest as well as all the other action from the weekend’s games. There were some big matches too in Serie A and La Liga, and NPLP welcomes Nik Postinger (follow him on Twitter @TouchlineDrama), […]
Let me recall… I must have had my first drink six years ago, so how old were you guys when you first started drinking? I remember the first drink I had was a bottled cocktail that was about 3% volume. At the time, I didn’t have a good understanding of alcohol, and I even […]
I am awkward. Ask anyone, my friends, my teachers from school (many of whom had choice names for me sometimes involving awkward), and my long-suffering girlfriend. So when set the task of writing and designing a magazine feature it would have been simple to go into WH Smith and buy a magazine, or even if […]
I had imagined Friday night as the perfect homecoming: seeing my parents and friends and having the first Munich beer in three months (no offence). So you can all guess that didn’t work out as planned. Finding out that my flight had been cancelled because of extreme snow closing the Munich airport (I know we […]
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