Digital and online

24. February, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Freelancing, Guest posts, How to guides, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Routes into journalism, Writing

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Chris Mandle: Tips on pitching

by The Maverick

Chris Mandle is a freelance writer based in Wimbledon, London. He went to Newcastle University and got a degree in English Language, before training at the News Associates in Wimbledon for his NCTJ in Multimedia Journalism. Chris is currently an

22. February, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Industries, Postgraduate course, Routes into journalism, Short course and NCTJ, Undergraduate course

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Online journalism is always evolving as an academic subject: A take on yesterday’s #cityhacks storm

by The Student

Yesterday, you may have noticed a little flurry of tweets around the #cityhacks hashtag, used by students at City University London, where myself and The Chancer study our journalism postgraduate courses. The spike came during an Online Journalism lecture by

16. February, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Getting started, Guest posts, Industries, Magazine, Production, Routes into journalism

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Ismene Brown: bringing the arts online

by The Maverick

Ismene Brown set up The Arts Desk, Britain’s first professional arts critical site, prior to its launch in 2009 and continues to manage it today after being the Daily Telegraph’s dance critic from 1994 to 2006. She regularly broadcasts on BBC

10. February, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Industries, Routes into journalism

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Fashion Week: Putting New Media on Show

by The Maverick

Depending on who you follow on Twitter, you may or may not be aware that New York Fashion Week kicks off once again today. In a week’s time London will also become even more of a global fashion hotspot in

6. February, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Radio, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Television, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning, Writing

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Nigel Barlow: Where stories come from

by The Student

Nigel Barlow is a freelance journalist specialising in media,politics,business and economics. and travel. He is co founder of Inside the M60, hyperlocal newsite for Manchester he blogs here and tweets here When we first launched Inside the M60 last April, we

5. February, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Guest posts, Industries, Routes into journalism

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Ed Borasky: Why hyperlocals should be producing data driven content

by The Maverick

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky is, in order of appearance, a boy genius, computer programmer, applied mathematician, folk singer, actor, professional graduate student, armchair astronaut, algorithmic composer, supercomputer programmer, performance engineer, Linux geek, and social media inactivist. He currently develops virtual

4. February, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, How to guides, Industries, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Radio, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Television, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning

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Richard Jones: Covering local elections

by The Student

Richard Jones is the editor of Saddleworth News – a hyperlocal news blog, you can find him on twitter here. I’m sure you’ve seen by-election campaigns on television. A reporter stands in the middle of a market town asking slightly-bewildered local people

3. February, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Television, Tools, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning

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Adam Westbrook: The virtue of video in hyperlocal

by The Student

Adam Westbrook is a freelance journalist, he lectures at Kingston University, blogs here, tweets here and is running a great new journalism business competition If I were running a hyperlocal website, I would use video. Online video is more affordable,

2. February, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Guest posts, Industries, Routes into journalism

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Philip John: The problem with the word ‘Hyperlocal’

by The Maverick

Philip John is an ‘internet strategist / marketer / evangelist / consultant’ he is involved in the Lichfield Blog – a hyperlocal project, has set up Journal Local- a hyperlocal platform, blogs here, @philipjohn” target=”_blank”>tweets here What’s in a word?

1. February, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Guest posts, Industries, Newspaper, Routes into journalism, Student media

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Joseph Stashko: When a hyperlocal runs out of steam

by The Student

Joseph Stashko is a student journalist, you can find him on Twitter here, read his blog here and keep up with Blog Preston here James Thornett, head of Homepage for BBC Online, discovered the difficulty of keeping a hyperlocal regularly