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Student media

10. September, 2012 Comment, Student media
This article has 6 comments

Personalisation is the next step for student media

by Liam Corcoran

Personalisation is the next step for student media Students are becoming more disconnected with traditional media consumption everyday, trading the broadcast schedule for iPlayer, albums and the radio for music streams, and newspapers for personalised news apps. This leaves student media at an impasse. It has to provide
30. August, 2012 Comment, Student media
This article has 14 comments

How complacency kills student media

by George Berridge

How complacency kills student media Student media, for each of its many good parts, often allows equal parts self-satisfaction and lethargy to demolish the work put into the former. It isn’t easy to write ill about something which, firstly, I am still involved in (thus
13. August, 2012 Comment, Industries, Newspaper, Student media
This article has 5 comments

Isn’t it time we gave student tabloids some credit?

by Sebastian Salek

Isn’t it time we gave student tabloids some credit? IT’S official: when it comes to ethical journalism, people seem to trust broadsheets and not the tabloids. But it isn’t just at a national level where people look down on red tops. In my experience as a section editor for
24. July, 2012 Comment, Student media
This article has no comments

The importance of impartiality – it helps you to stand out

by A Wannabe Hack

The importance of impartiality – it helps you to stand out Over the next few months, the journalists of the United States will be in election mode, reporting on the latest developments from campaign trails as the race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama reaches its climax. However, there’s been a
28. June, 2012 Advice, Getting started, latest, Postgraduate course, Recommended, Routes into journalism, Student media, Undergraduate course
This article has 27 comments

Top tips for a good university experience

by Jonathan Frost

Top tips for a good university experience Yesterday, there was a hashtag circulating on Twitter: #unitips. I’ve just finished my second year at York, and feel I’ve learned a few things so far that I’d like to proffer up as advice. So, if you’re heading to university
17. May, 2012 Comment, Student media
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Nicole Froio – How I fell out of love with student media

by Emily Handford

Nicole Froio – How I fell out of love with student media My student media career was relatively long. I started as a very keen first year writer for Forge Press and became news editor for my second year which kept me busy most hours of the day and pretty much killed
1. May, 2012 Advice, latest, Reporting, Student media
This article has 5 comments

Digging into data

by Jonathan Frost

Digging into data Over the weekend, I’ve been boxed up in a student newspaper office. We’ve all been there: the stale smell, the lack of space, and the heavy eyelids. But we do it anyway, for whatever reasons, and I’ve ultimately enjoyed this
22. March, 2012 Advice, Getting started, Routes into journalism, Student media
This article has 9 comments

CV Workshop

by Jonathan Frost

Today, this clean two page Word document based CV is up for criticism! As usual, don’t hold back. If you want to go next, email me your CV: jonathan@wannabehacks.co.uk. Some things that spring to mind for discussion: – Is the
28. February, 2012 Digital and online, Industries, latest, Student media
This article has 3 comments

Should we embrace accountable commenting?

by Jonathan Frost

Should we embrace accountable commenting? Facebook comments are easy to integrate, and will, I hope, help to raise the level of discussion on www.nouse.co.uk (the student rag, where I’m Web Editor). But they sacrifice anonymity in the process, and could drive comments that should be
7. February, 2012 Advice, Digital and online, Industries, Reporting, Student media, Tools
This article has 4 comments

Why campus reporters should ‘Like’ the Facebook ticker

by Emily Handford

We’re going Facebook crazy at the moment. Yesterday The Entreprenuer argued journalists were a bit late to get to grips with how to use Facebook. This morning The Postgrad said that Facebook could be more useful than Twitter and now
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