As my dozens of regular visitors may have noticed, things have been a bit quiet around here for the past week or so. In my last post I took journalism students to task for strenuously avoiding core things on their course such as, well, actually writing copy. In the light of the lack of updates […]
I’ve been spending some time with UCA journalism students for the past week, overseeing their online journalism projects. On the whole, things are going well. The third years are dipping their toes into PHP using a useful WordPress plugin called Widget Logic. This allows a user to specify on which pages of a WordPress site […]
A while ago, I posted on the possibility that journalism might have to move towards software development. The Atlantic this month flags up an iPhone App that offers policy points for (US) conservatives to use when they’re arguing about Obama’s healthcare bill. The Conservative Talking Points app will set you back £1.12 from the iTunes store […]
For anyone who enjoys headline and typo of the day-type sites, Criggo has some top-flight material. I particularly liked the slightly surreal “Protesters protest protest-signs protest” here. A sub’s dream… [HT: Jessica]
As a regular commuter (god help me), I often pick up the Metro at the station to get a sense of the current news agenda. And because sometimes it’s hard to motivate yourself to crack open that book about PHP scripting at 8am. Like most newspapers, the Metro has tried to develop an online strategy. […]
The BNP seems to be engaged in some clever, if off-the-wall, underground marketing campaigning at the moment. My students at yesterday morning’s online journalism seminar flagged up an odd post on the Vice Magazine site (which is, as you might guess, essentially sleazoid trash. Not that there’s anything wrong with that). The post – Babes […]
It’s always interesting to observe the changing requirements of media employers. But sometimes you have to wonder what’s going on at these companies. Eager young journalism graduates wanting to make their mark in the world of showbiz reporting might well be tempted to apply for this recent ad from entertainment news agency Bang Media International […]
I love this old Time Magazine story on climate change from 1974. As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. Yes, well. It just goes to […]
Some interesting new stats from online market analyst Hitwise on visitor behaviour on the web show that web users visit social media sites more than any other kind of content. (I had trouble downloading the actual data, though, so this is not backed up with first-hand research). [UPDATE: the nice people at Hitwise sent me […]
My post on internship experience of UCA journalism graduate Adam Leveridge attracted some interesting comments, including one from another UCA Farnham graduate, Matt Burton, whose work I also liked at the UCA graduate show. I’d like to flag it up here because Matt’s experience is so directly relevant to the whole debate about whether there’s a […]