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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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DEBATE | Cameras in courtrooms: AGAINST
This morning Hannah argued the case for cameras in courtrooms. Now reader Charlie Lindlar argues against. Charlie is a journalism graduate from the London College of Communication and currently works at The Huffington Post UK. The world is getting smaller.
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DEBATE | Cameras in courtrooms: FOR
The UK is finally making moves to televise the court room. An Edinburgh court sentencing was recently filmed for the first time and a plan to extend the use of cameras in courts is expected to be announced in the
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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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Local newspapers: Redundancies and opportunities
April has proved to be a month of doom and gloom in local newspapers. Over the last month, numerous local newspapers have gone from being dailies to weeklies, cut evening and weekend editions and had major restructures. All of these
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The local advertising dilemma
So, the classifieds are dead, and no one wants to advertise local papers any more because sales are dwindling, and it’s too expensive compared to Google Ads, or other forms of digital marketing. Jon posted a while back about his
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The life of a sub
Last week I had possibly the craziest week of my life. I was working with some other students on my course to create a 16 page tabloid newspaper to promote Pits n Pots, a local politics website in Stoke-on-Trent. It all started
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The Express and Star need to compete online
Robert Grant is a 22-year-old wannabe from Surrey. He is a final year undergraduate at Bristol University studying Politics and French. During his time at Bristol he has contributed to Epigram, the university paper, and wrote a blog about his year
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Over my dead body: paying for the news
The last session I attended at the Open Weekend was arguably the most interesting. It posed a question about what readers are willing to give back to the Guardian: data, time, or money? Most members of the audience, especially the
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Redefining local media: One & Other
“We’ve set ourselves a big task: to reinvent the industry. That’s not just for the sake of it, it’s because we think it’s broken as it is, and it has a lot more potential. There’s a whole generation that are
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