Thursday, September 29th, 2011
What life would be like if all the unemployed sub-editors worked in the real world…
Which is exactly what life should be like…
Entries from September 2011
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Freebie of the week: Good Times, Bad Times
The lovely Eleanor Riches at Acorn Independent Press writes: “I was wondering if you might be interested to see the new edition of Good Times Bad Times by Harold Evans. A pioneer of investigative journalism, Harold worked his way through the ranks of student journalism, through regional papers, before becoming editor of The Times. A proper […]
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Using a group WordPress magazine site in online journalism teaching
Last semester on the Journalism BA course at UCA in Farnham saw an experiment in teaching first-year Online Journalism students. We created a group news site in WordPress that aims to replicate the processes and set-up of real-world online news publishing. Needless to say, this has not gone as smoothly as it might. The background We […]
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Freelance Unbound – back next week*
*[Not, clearly, on Monday or Tuesday. Too many undergraduates to deal with. Wednesday, probably] It’s time to clear the tumbleweed from the streets of Freelance Unbound, so we’ll be back next week with some real content to celebrate the start of the university teaching term. Look forward to a long, rambling essay on the lessons […]