Profile: Jon Offredo
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Jon recently completed his postgraduate in International Multimedia Journalism at Newcastle University. A former staff writer for the Courier, Jon is originally from right outside of Philadelphia, Pa, USA and has worked with BBC News School Report, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Journal, Sunday Sun and other publications in the UK and US. Now Jon is employed! You can view his website at jonoffredo (dot) com and follow him on Twitter @jonoffredo.
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Is there any value in J-school and how can it be made more worthwhile?
It only occurred to me after I graduated that going to journalism school is sort of like buying a new computer. When you first start shopping, there’s a whole bunch of new features, fingerprint scanners, built-in web cams, USB2 ports
9. August, 2012
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Olympic coverage: foreplay at its best
So I’ll be the first to admit it – I haven’t watched the Olympics religiously. Like most, I get what I can every so often, check in on the football scores and watch the games on my itty-bitty tv at
30. July, 2012
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‘The Newsroom’ gets it right.. sort of
When Aaron Sorkin first devised the gobbledygook that is now known as ‘The Newsroom’, we all knew it was going to be some preachy stuff. As a fan of the West Wing, I thought, ‘okay, I can take it’. Wrong. So
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Don’t make stuff up – seriously, don’t
I’m not easily surprised anymore about the transgressions of a select few in journalism who, for some confounding reason, decide to break the cardinal rule. You know, the one about not making stuff up. But honestly, I was a bit
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More print titles bought in the US – who would want to own a newspaper?
There’s a bit of a dichotomy going on among local print publications across the US. A few weeks back I covered the sad demise of the Times-Picayune. News came yesterday that the cuts that were rumored, are in fact worse
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Guilt and digital first
The past week has been rubbish for newsprint in the US. We’ve had to come to grips with watching a Pulitzer-winning newspaper, who defined and epitomized the type of service community journalism can, and does, provide, ruthlessly downsized in the
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Why I can’t tweet (unless it is about football)
So, a while back I weighed the options of creating a work-based Twitter account. I struggled deciding between creating one based on work vs. adding work content to my personal one. All in all I decided against combining my personal
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The five must-read long form pieces of journalism
Everyone likes a good read. It could be a short, zippy few hundred words like this piece, or a long, riveting piece of narrative journalism that grips you from word one, all the way through to word 10,000. A couple
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Journalism: Basically the worst thing, ever
April seems to have been the month of doom and gloom for the journo-type. I can’t speak for the UK, but here in the US there seems to have been a never ending stream of surveys and studies that show
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Shan Ellis: Making it in journalism; going the long way round
If someone would have told me at 18 that I would be writing for a newspaper at 34, then I probably would have laughed at them and asked them what they’d been drinking. I was never an outstanding student in