Freelance Unbound’s roving correspondent is currently in Japan, seeking out linguistic and visual communications curiosities for your cultural pleasure. Yesterday’s trip to the ancient Japanese capital of Nara – a UNESCO World Heritage site packed with fabulous Spirited Away-style scenery – yielded these sinister warnings about the possibility of deer attack. Yes – Bambi can turn in a […]
Marvel Studios may have spent around $140,000,000 to put Iron Man on the screen, but none of that money seems to have gone on proofreading. As Iron Man seems to be showing pretty much on a loop on Film 4 at the moment, sub-editing geeks can check out the montage of magazine covers featuring millionaire businessman/inventor Tony […]
Veteran foreign correspondent Marie Colvin has been reported killed today in Syria, alongside French photographer Remi Ochlik. Biographical details online are scant – but here’s a sketchy timeline (UPDATE: Wikipedia caught up with her today, but I’m updating here anyway). 1956/57* – born in Oyster Bay, New York 1974 – graduates from Oyster Bay High School in New York […]
Last week saw interviews of a few dozen prospective candidates for places on the journalism degrees at UCA in Farnham. It was the usual mixed bunch, and some candidates failed to shine – despite the fact that is isn’t that hard, if you know what you’re doing. So, how do you make the best impression […]
Last week, Times football editor Tony Evans (@TonyEvansTimes) came to speak to journalism undergraduates at UCA Farnham. Here is his advice to J-students on how to get ahead in sports reporting. (Works for other kinds of journalism too…) Build contactsDon’t be shy – make contact with people in the sporting and media world via email and Twitter; and maintain your […]
Bad Science author Ben Goldacre is getting in a twist about the NHS reforms. On his Posterous blog he criticises health minister Simon Burns for recently pointing out that the British Medical Association was hostile to the NHS in 1946 (though I can’t find an actual link for Burns’ comment). In a neat “5 Tweet” format, […]
We use them to help take out the Taliban’s leadership (with more or less accuracy) – but there is a more noble potential mission for the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. Yes – drone journalism. Get those radio-controlled suckers in the air and use their onboard cameras to help the fourth estate carry out its role to […]
The offer from “Whitney Meyer” of $50 for a spam link in a post specifically saying I am not interested in taking money for spam links was good. But “Carrie Oakley” has gone one better. She picked the post I used to say Whitney was an idiot for picking such an inappropriate post as her chosen vehicle for a plug […]
Just arrived in the Freelance Unbound inbox – an almost irresistible offer from “Whitney Meyer” for inserting spam links into this very blog. Dear Freelance Unbound, I just got done reading your “Bribery and corruption? Sadly, I think you have the wrong blog…” and I found it really interesting! Do you do advertising? I’m marketing […]
Nearly a century after the end of World War One, Farnham residents believe Poppy Day has as much relevance to them and their children as ever, while young British men and women fight abroad for their country. Jack Keene reports for UCA Journalism News. [NB: so, that Posterous syndication is still working, then. I thought […]