I had such a moment of panic walking home with my camera today, when I thought ‘did I press record at the start of that conversation’? When Jaak and I were Vox Popping in the first couple of weeks we lost a whole interview cuz we hadn’t pressed record, luckily I had today. I just […]
I found this in the Guardian today. It’s a commentary on Gordon Brown’s speech to Congress yesterday by Oliver Burkeman, who writes about US politics for the paper quite extensively. Just thought I’d post it up as it’s a good read and pretty funny to boot.
A long tradition exists of significant public figures using columns in national newspapers to express outrage about public policy and, they hope, to provoke a debate that might change it. Perhaps the greatest example in European history is Emile Zola, the French novelist’s, 4,000 word column published in L’Aurore in January 1898 under the headline J’Accuse. It accused […]
At the CfJ we’re delighted to announce we’ve appointed award-winning multi-media journalist and author Dhruti Shah as an Honorary Fellow (Practitioner). Dhruti has a wealth of experience in creating and covering a wide range of conversation-generating stories in the UK and overseas for BBC News and before that, in newspapers. She is the co-author of a book […]
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports that Chinese media are running around in the north of Sweden combing through the woods. Why? They’re looking for Chako Paul City. The city of 25 000 lesbians. Scandilous Life obviously had to indulge further: According to Chinese media there is a city hidden away in the Swedish woods way up […]
Msn’s Entertainment page provides its own opinion and insight in to which 12 albums changed music. Albums on the list include German “Krautrock” group Kraftwerk who developed an electronic sound through their album Autobahn in 1975 which would later inspire pop, rock, dance and hip hop in latter decades.David Bowie’s Low album which incorporated the ambient […]
Gillchester Guardian.jpg Ron Green had already retired once after a long and successful career in print journalism – including 30 years at the Kent Messenger group – before being persuaded to help out with lecturing our first batch of students just after we had set the department up. That was more than a decade ago. […]
Please note the change of time. This session will now begin at 10.30. Please bring with you your finished tabloid pages for final comments and signing off.
Instead of uploading to the web site, year two students should submit their interactive Flash features by copying all the relevant files onto one of the centre’s external hard drives. I will show you which one to use. Make sure you copy the following files: The .fla project file (This will enable me to see […]
Phil Harding will be talking about how to make inspiring radio to ALL students tomorrow, 7 April. Please, everyone come to the newsroom and bring a notebook. Phil’s talk will be from 13.00 – 14.00. Phil Harding is a former editor and executive at the BBC — and was for a time […]
Ann Mroz, editor of Times Higher Education, the weekly newspaper for universities and all who work in them, will visit the Centre tomorrow, Friday. In addition to being the editor of a highly successful and relevant title, Ann is a fascinating and entertaining journalist. Please come, listen, ask questions and take advantage of her experience.
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The combined personal wealth of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin (a meagre $16bn each)Â is greater than the entire value of the US newspaper publishing sector ($20bn, according to Wall Street estimates). Well, so Valleywag reckons anyway.
Project deadline days are legendary at the Centre for Journalism. Tears, tantrums, tales of woe – and the wild staring eyes of students who haven’t been to sleep for more than 24 hours – are reliable indicators that the submission of this all important piece of work is imminent. And each year, the academic staff […]
Starting to plan ahead for summer? Why not apply for a Google News Initiative placement with the European Journalism Centre? There 8 newsrooms participating in the UK and many others across Europe including France, Germany, Finland and Poland. They are looking for bright young people, from all over to take up these PAID placements. Get […]
The European Commission is looking for participants for the third edition of Youth4Regions – the programme for aspiring journalists. If you are interested in our fully-funded EU training programme, we encourage you to apply by sending: a short original article (400-1000 words), or a short video (2 – 3 minutes) on a project that has […]
The Liverpool Echo has a cool experiment on its web site that’s worth a look. Although there are several big papers in the US with advanced projects along these lines, this one of the first efforts by a daily UK newspaper at mapping news stories to help readers easily identify the ones that are most […]
“Is saving the world journalism’s job?” is the title of the cover piece in the new editiion of British Journalism Review. It is by our own Dr. Suzanne Franks and Prof. Jean Seaton of the University of Wesminster (co-author of the text book ‘Power without Responsibility’ with which you are all familiar). It is a superb contribution to the debate about […]
Hello everyone, CfJ graduate Alfie Tobutt, who recently joined us for a Q & A session, has kindly highlighted some great opportunities at the BBC to work on its politics and Westminister coverage. If you are someone with a good knowledge of and a big interest in UK politics – this could be for you: https://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Journalists-and-Journalism-Researchers-Freelance-Talent-Pool-Politics-Story-Team-BBC-News/56190?src=mediabeans […]
The teams for next Friday’s print news day are listed below. Each team will be producing a newspaper of at least 16 pages by 5pm, containing local, national and international news, business coverage, sport, opinion and debate. The editors have been briefed, and will no doubt be contacting their teams individually with words of encouragement […]
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Following the year 3 project pitches, we have now allocated supervisors for each student, as shown in the table below. Remember it is your responsibility to make contact with your supervisor. Do it soon. Supervisor Student Tim Luckhurst George Seb Rashaud Katie Laura Garcia Rodriguez Blancas Jujia Chandni Lucy […]
As Christmas is less than 48 hours away, I thought I’d do my blog post about something Christmassy. What better than talking about the musical I went to see over the weekend based on one of my favourite Christmas films, Nativity. Of course, in advance, I was worried about seeing the musical adaptation of […]
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