I have been debating with myself whether I should write this post or not, but have come to the conclusion that it is something I want to talk about, or more correctly, a topic I do not want to be silenced. It is something I find difficult to talk about, as it arises old, uncomfortable […]
Artist Gunter Demnig makes brass cobbles he calls stumbling blocks that are set into the pavements of Berlin. Most have engraved in them the word, “ermordet” – murdered. Others say, “Flucht in den Tod” – “killed whilst trying to escape.” Each marks the home of a victim of the holocaust. Joanna Robertson, the BBC’s Berlin […]
I hope nobody has any last minute research assignments they need to complete because if you go to the english version of Wikipedia today you’ll find it’s offline. In its place you’ll find a blacked-out page and the heading “Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge.” Google is also taking part in the protest against proposed anti-piracy […]
Don’t forget to bring your exam test paper and McNae tomorrow morning – I know some of you have shorthand exams. We will finish the test paper on your EXTRA session Monday 4/4/11 from 11 – 1230 in Room G2-04.
I, like many others, am eagerly awaiting the release of Wes Anderson’s latest film – The French Dispatch. Originally scheduled to release in 2020 (we all know how that went), The French Dispatch follows the story of a fictional magazine of the same name – inspired by Anderson’s love of The New Yorker. Set in […]
I’m delighted to be able to confirm that Associated Newspapers have agreed to award two Daily Mail Scholarships in the Centre this year: a postgradate scholarship and an undergraduate scholarship for final year students. Each scholarship is worth £5,000 and the chance to do work experience at the Daily Mail. Contestants should submit an original news […]
I struggled thinking about how I wanted to approach this topic. Option 1 – I write about it in a way that is me deflecting from something that might be a real problem with random musings that probably aren’t funny but make me do that “exhale forcefully from your nose” kind of laugh. Option […]
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Here is the link to the film trip we discussed in class, for those who wanted to look. I’ve pasted the summary of it below: “Following his award-winning documentary The War on Democracy, John Pilger’s new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war. The War You Don’t See traces the history of ‘embedded’ […]
Have a listen to this excellent 3 part Radio 4 series which takes its title from the famous book by Bernard Crick ‘In Defence of Politics’. It will be especially useful and of interest for the MA class where we will be discussing political apathy and participation next week. And the two episodes about cynical attitudes […]
After seeing friends sharing the pictures claiming to be the killers of 2-year-old Jamie Bulger, I waited for something to happen about it. So last week Neil Harkins and Dean Liddle were given nine month sentences (suspended for 15 months) for publishing the photos – http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22310412
There’s a new book out about foreign correspondents during the Spanish Civil War called We Saw Spain Die by Paul Preston, I’m going to get a copy and anyone is welcome to borrow it. It’s got good reviews from what I can see. Also, I know I keep going on about this but I can’t […]
Trainee reporters Britain’s most successful newspaper group is looking for trainee reporters. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work at the Daily Mail newspaper. Our trainee reporters embark on a year-long programme that involves intense training, assessment and on-the-job experience at regional daily newspapers and agencies.The successful applicants will probably have a degree and will have shown […]
Known until recently for its banks, cod, Bjork and little else, Iceland is planning to remake itself as a safe haven for investigative journalists. Julian Assange, editor of WikilLeaks, explains the move’s significance in this piece for Media Guardian. Unsuprisingly, rumours persist that urgent plans are being made to relocate the Centre for Journalism to Rejkyavik. It is said that […]
For the last year we have spent more time at home than ever before, leaving more time to clear out overflowing wardrobes, overstuffed drawers and attics packed with clothes from who knows when. When charity shops opened on the 12th of April in England they were inundated with donations. Whilst most of us are happy […]
Moving into a flat with your friends for the first time is something you can be nothing, but excited about. But the reality of life in a flat in one of the run-down Medway towns soon hit student Alexandra Falcsik. When we chose the house, its location was an important factor. After careful consideration, we […]
With the 2019 general election right on our doorstep, attention has turned to the historic city of Canterbury, one of the “marginal seats” which in 2017 narrowly elected its first Labour MP in almost a century. Labour’s Rosie Duffield won by just 187 votes, unseating Conservative MP Sir Julian Brazier who had held the seat […]
News of the Rohingya crisis is not new, the BBC, Sky News and other news organisations all over the world has reported on the ‘ethinc cleansing’ in Myanmar. Even though this humanitarian crisis is still ongoing, there are not many news reports about it at the moment. With this in mind I decided that my […]
https://whatculture.com/comics/when-did-harley-quinn-finally-break-up-wi… Article I published for WhatCulture
Australia appears to be struggling to boost its tourism industry, as it was announced on the BBC Radio4 Today Programme this morning that the country’s tourism board is set to release an epic romance featuring two of the nation’s most famous actors. The film entitled “Australia” includes X-Men star Hugh Jackman and The Others star Nicole […]
So What Lessons Are There for Online Video and How an Organisation Communicates? When the first railways were built, they used horses not steam engines to pull the carriages. Everyone could see the benefit of rails, compared with the inefficient, muddy roads of the day, but not everyone was convinced that the new fangled steam […]
I’ve thought long and hard about the topic for this blog post. I’ve had a great many ideas, all of them surpassing the previous. I could have written about my friend who accidentally brought a scorpion back from her mum’s wedding in South Africa, but the BBC beat me to it. I could have ranked […]
During the Second World War, pioneering female war correspondents insisted that they could go anywhere as long as they had a typewriter and a toothbrush. Author Sarah Blake was inspired by them and she has recently published a novel, The Postmistress, in which the heroine broadcasts from London during the Blitz. During her research for the book she took a close look […]
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