Skopje: short stories or too short stories?
We’re setting 350-word blog posts for the assignments. There was a question as to whether that’s enough for the subjects we’ve suggested? I’d say so. The idea is for the students to find an angle on...
View ArticleSkopje: introductory lecture
Today’s the day. The introductory session kicks off at 5:00 pm with all three team members – Jane Croft (PR), Gary Stevens (broadcast) and I. The lecture will run for an hour, followed by a...
View ArticleGuardian compares finance executives to paedophiles
I reproduce below the intro to a blog post on the Guardian’s Joris Luyendijk banking blog: A psychologist compares the ‘twisted minds’ of some executives to those of paedophiles he has tried to treat...
View ArticleInvestigating journalism
Here’s an interesting piece of investigative journalism (video) that investigates journalism. In fact, it investigates Guardian journalism, or, at least, Guardian finances. It’s got some good footage...
View ArticleStaggering on at the Guardian
A piece in today’s Press Gazette carried this barbed (but entirely accurate) comment from New Statesman editor editor Jason Cowley on the Guardian’s … er … business model: ‘I could get 4m users a day...
View ArticleAnti-northern bias: the Guardian speaks
The Guardian is on great form today. This piece laments the lack of ‘positive European journalism relating to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’. I wonder why that is? It couldn’t be the...
View ArticleLSJ social media survey
LSJ colleagues will know I’m doing a survey of how we all use social media in our teaching. I thought I’d start this survey via my blog. Just us This survey isn’t about how students use social media...
View ArticleOJ3: the way forward this term
The OJ3 team had a brief but useful session today at the start of the new term. We’re still finalising the schedule (I’m waiting for colleagues to confirm dates) but we know what we’ll be covering....
View ArticleOJ3: log blog
We talked about the reflective logs last week. The aim was to get some sort of shape and structure, and to identify some headings we’d expect to see in any log. Headings for the log This is what we...
View ArticleBoJ presentation assessment: writing a CV
I posted this today on the Bojjers’ Facebook page. Writing a CV 1 You have to submit a CV as part of your presentation assessment. There’s plenty of advice on CV writing out there – maybe too much. I...
View ArticleMaths questions
US journalism professor Mindy McAdams asked this question on Twitter yesterday (28/04/2013): How is it okay that journalism students are able to graduate without ever taking a real statistics or...
View ArticleInformation gathering vs information processing
I’m looking for a starting point for some sessions on data-driven journalism – one that’s based on scepticism, rather than one that just launches us into the technology and the tools. This is an...
View ArticleWrong, right? Wrong …
The British people are wrong about everything. So says Ipsos MORI’s Bobby Duffy in a piece slamming our ignorance about immigration, Muslims, teenage pregnancy, benefit fraud, and foreign aid. The...
View ArticleDistance Learning Working Group
The LSJ’s Distance Learning Working Group had its first meeting on September 6. We set up the group at our June 2013 Away Day. A role is ‘to focus on distance learning opportunities within the School’....
View ArticleDistance learning workshop
We agreed at our last meeting that Sue Watling would set up a distance learning workshop for us as a pilot project. She has sent an outline proposal. Outline The workshop would be over a set period of...
View ArticleMacked off
We’re in the throes of trying to make our new attendance monitoring system work at the moment. I was hoping to print my registers off at home, until I saw this message from central admin: Over the...
View ArticleThe Lincoln School of Journalism Content Management
In the future, everyone will be a journalist for 15 minutes. Well, no, not quite. But according to news executive David Montgomery (Press Gazette, 21/11/2013), what will happen in the future is that...
View ArticleThe C-word
I see the university still struggles with the C-word. Their celebratory seasonal e-card suppresses the season we’re celebrating. Sigh … (Merry Christmas to one and all.)
View ArticleAcademic, hackademic
One of the key challenges facing journalism students is switching voices and styles for different assignments. At any one time, they can be working on essays, critiques, news stories, features, radio...
View ArticleRight off
I came across this via the LinkedIn Higher Education Academy Group. It’s a dire (in every sense of the word) warning about “the rapid infiltration of the UK’s education system by those espousing right...
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