Postgraduate course

30. March, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, How to guides, Industries, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Student media, Tools

This article has 1 comment

Seb Wheeler: Rough and ready smartphone photos can set the news agenda

by The Maverick

Amateur journalists operate on a shoestring, so when covering something as momentous as a 450,000 strong demonstration in central London, it’s important to go equipped with tools that are thrifty but effective. I believe in good ol’ fashioned photo-journalism as

30. March, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Training schemes, Undergraduate course

This article has no comments

Chris Stevenson: organisation is the key to reporting on a protest

by The Student

After 4,000 words over an 11 hour shift, the blog looks quite daunting on the page. But in reality, with a bit of prep and good organisation, it is fairly easy to achieve. Before the march, I set up a

23. March, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Newspaper, Postgraduate course, Routes into journalism, Student media, Undergraduate course

This article has 32 comments

Daniel Bentley: Ripping up the student newspaper and why the web is the answer

by The Student

Daniel Bentley is online editor of Pluto, UCLan’s student newspaper, and a blogger at inkthink.org – he tweets media, tech and Burnley FC @djbentley What purpose does a printed student newspaper still serve? The only reason a student newspaper still

16. March, 2011 Applications, Comment, CVs, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Finding a job, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Postgraduate course, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience, Work experience and interning

This article has 2 comments

Inspired & mentored? Marie Claire’s event fails to satisfy

by The Maverick

An event entitled ‘How To Get Into Magazines’ was never going to do what it said on the tin. Which is a great shame, given the 50 or so beautifully turned-out, bushy-tailed and bright-eyed, hungry young magazine journalists who turned

14. March, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Freelancing, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Radio, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Television, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning

This article has 21 comments

The worrying trend of ego in young journalists

by The Student

Paul Bradshaw, in his inaugural lecture at City University London, entitled ‘Is Ice Cream Strawberry?’, flagged up ego as a journalist’s biggest problem. He said: “It is ego that leads us to report on a story without linking to our

11. March, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, Guest posts, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Postgraduate course, Reporting, Routes into journalism, Student media, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning, Writing

This article has no comments

Katie Oakes: Student media pre-election coverage

by The Student

Our regular student media expert Katie Oakes takes a look at the different student newspaper stories coming out of the woodwork in the run up to the student union elections. March is election month when students all over the country

2. March, 2011 Comment, Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Freelancing, Guest posts, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Radio, Routes into journalism, Shifts, Short course and NCTJ, Student media, Television, Training schemes, Undergraduate course, Work experience and interning

This article has 9 comments

Paul Bradshaw: Objectivity has changed – why hasn’t journalism?

by The Student

Objectivity is one of the key pillars of journalistic identity: it is one of the ways in which we identify ourselves as a profession. But for the past decade it has been subject to increasing criticism from those (and I

28. February, 2011 Advice, Digital and online, How to guides, Industries, Magazine, Newspaper, Photojournalism, Postgraduate course, Radio, Routes into journalism, Television

This article has no comments

Ben Bryant: How and where to get postgrad funding

by The Maverick

Ben Bryant is a freelance journalist and MA Newspaper student at City University London, for which he received funding from the AHRC. He is a critic for Theatre Wales and has copious amounts of cuttings from the London Evening Standard.

28. February, 2011 Advice, Getting started, Postgraduate course, Routes into journalism, Short course and NCTJ, Undergraduate course

This article has 1 comment

Getting funding for a journalism course and how I failed

by The Student

Journalism courses, and postgrad ones in particular, can be expensive and prohibitive so it’s important to know what is out there in terms of funding. Wannabe Hacks will have several guest posts up today shedding light on a few of

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

This article has 13 comments

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