When someone gives their opinion on a subject it is exactly that and can’t really be wrong. Giles Coren, a writer for The Times however, is a twat and his opinion is wrong. Let me explain myself. I was rather enjoying reading The Times on saturday afternoon despite, as most of you know, having an […]
Event date: 3 June 2010 – 9:30am
For all of you working on your video news package assignment, I thought it might be worth giving you some guidance on where you need to be in the process. By the start of the teaching session on Monday you ideally should have nailed your interviews and know what your story is. Finding the focus of […]
Can I just point out how nice it is to see nine Premier League games being played simultaneously midweek? It’s something we haven’t seen for a very long time due to the UEFA Cup, Champions League and hectic schedule. It’s nice to be able to enjoy a very rare occurence like this! If only Newcastle […]
The passage of time from Didier Drogba’s opening goal in the Carling Cup game against Burnley, and the resumption of play afterwards, summed up the Ivorian’s character and temperament in a nutshell. Played through by a Frank Lampard pass, he left two defenders behind and hit an expert finish into the net. It was a […]
Background Screenshot 2019-04-07 23.17.15.png With less than a month to go before the end of the football league season, the race for promotion across the top four leagues on the EFL (English Football League) is heating up, but in SkyBet League 1 – It’s at the other end of the table where the drama lies. […]
Many congratulations to Amber Sunner in Year 2 who has been short-listed for the Today programme’s Student Journalist of the Year Award. It’s a great achievement. Screenshot 2019-10-11 at 15.20.09.png The Kent student publication InQuire is short-listed in the category of best student publication. Well done to everyone involved. Next year could ‘Voice of Kent’ be […]
The Sky Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship might plausibly be described as the most valuable award available to an undergraduate student of journalism in the UK. It is certainly the biggest prize available to first year students in the Centre for Journalism. It reimburses the winner’s first year tuition fee (UK/EU rate) and provides a month-long, funded work placement at Sky […]
In praise of the audio slideshow http://bbc.co.uk/journalism/blog/2010/03/in-praise-of-the-audio-slidesh.shtml?page=66 Bhutto assassination http://nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20071227_BHUTTO_FEATURE/# I gave birth in a tree http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8515918.stm Receptionist of the United States http://nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/16/us/politics/20090516ROTUS/index.html Condition Critical http://duckrabbit.info/2011/08/francoises-story/ New York Times 1 in 8 million http://nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html Artificial eye-maker http://spokesmanreview.com/blogs/video/play.asp?file=052907_eyes_sr&filetype=swf An ambush and a comrade lost http://nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/19/world/20090420-aliabad-amb… LA Times: A quiet night’s […]
f.jpg First some basic information: Eight episodes of eight different stories, based on a column in the New York Times of the same name. It is obviously about love, I mean, it is in the title. But It is more than just that. These people are lost in love, some of them find love […]
The Today Programme’s Jim Naughtie has been on the road in the USA with his Edirol (or perhaps a Marantz or a Sony) and a producer. His mission is to examine the culture war between God-fearing, Sarah Palin adoring fans of the conservative insurgency known as the Tea Party movement, and Liberal supporters of President Barack Obama. His features depicting […]
(Posting it on here because it will avoid having to CC everyone in all the time through email) Basically, UMM can submit one vote for each category for the categories listed further down – it’s a tad long. The Activities Awards are scheduled for Saturday 22nd May, Chuck your votes below by the 15th April […]
Merry Christmas and a happy and rewarding 2010 to all students in the Centre. I’m very sorry I didn’t have the chance to see you today. It is a privilege to teach you and I look forward to seeing you in January. Until then have a tremendous festive season and come back to Kent refreshed and raring to learn.
190329_CFJ_Ron_001.jpg It’s with great sadness that we have to pass on the very sad news of the death of Ron Green, one of the Centre for Journalism’s most influential and admired figures. Ron played a central part in establishing the culture of the CfJ, joining as a newswriting teacher soon after it was founded and […]
Power without Responsibility will finish next week with an overview of the digital revolution. For all the talk of a future of wide open transparency and infinite and promising democratic possibilities, Evgeny Morozov is one of those who draws attention to the darker sides of cyberspace and in particular the ways that authoritarian regimes might make use […]
BBC Radio Kent’s plan to make a promotional video accompaniment to a musical Christmas classic required some deft work behind the camera and in the edit suite. So who should they call? Third year students from the CfJ’s undergraduate degree programme. Starring BBC Radio Kent’s breakfast show presenters, John Warnett and Maggie Doyle, this fine little movie […]
I feel like, Coronation Street expected the black community to celebrate the news of the soap having its first black family as part of the neighbourhood, for the first time in the show’s 59-year history. Am I really supposed to be jumping for joy at this news? Honestly when I saw the tweet on my […]
Group 1 with Kenn Bernardita, Joseph Brophy, Indya, James, Joe Coshan, Lara, Tommaso,Michael, Sebastian, Mohammad, Elaine, Isabelle, George, Chloe, Chandni, Ariane, Joshua, Philip Group 2 with Margaret Renee, Arthur, Rachel, Monica, Charles, Sean, Jujia, Daniel, Rashaud, Siobhan, Katie, Lucy, Ethan, Srinivas, Kaya, Amelia
I’ve put a couple of revision sessions in the calendar for MA students, on Tuesday 24 May and Thursday 26 May at 11. We’ll use these as refreshers for Practical Multimedia Journalism and for the NCTJ sub-editing exam. We’ll also discuss portfolio requirements for Practical Multimedia Journalism, and prepare for news days and work placements. Please […]
The publication of Lord Carter’s long awaited Digital Britain review caused me a problem. I didn’t know quite what to make of it. More specifically I couldn’t think exactly how to describe it succinctly or sum it up. Years in the making, much anticipated and discussed, Lord Carter of Barnes’ White Paper provoked howls of […]
We will be holding a scripting and storytelling in a class on 20 November, 3 to 5 pm, for the third year Convergent module. The class will be in the old MA newsroom and will be invaluable for your newsday later that week. See you then. Richard
Here’s an opportunity some of you may be interested in… WIN a place on an expedition to a beautiful lost world! 10 students will journey to Mount Roraima, Venezuela, to join a critically acclaimed film crew (including BBC Planet Earth cameramen) to shoot a broadcast quality documentary about Mount Roraima. The film will then be […]
A reminder to all first years, second years and MA students: Your conference diaries and blog posts for last term are due in next week if you haven’t already completed them. That’s Tuesday, by 5pm please. Please submit your conference diaries as Word or text documents to the assignments section of this web site. Remember […]
We are delighted to announce that the shortlisting panel has chosen the following three students to face the scholarship panel on Wednesday. Congratulations to Sara Malm, Daniel May and Melanie Wimmer. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to submit applications. Tim and I will be available to brief the shortlisted applicants about the final stage […]
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