Student media
30. March, 2011
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Chris Stevenson: organisation is the key to reporting on a protest
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
24. March, 2011
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Charlotte Lytton: with all this paper speak, where’s TV & radio?
So you wanna write for the student rag? Why not the TV station or radio shack? Charlotte Lytton lets us know why there’s such a divide and what we could do to stop it… Writing for a university rag has
23. March, 2011
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Daniel Bentley: Ripping up the student newspaper and why the web is the answer
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
22. March, 2011
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Elena Cresci: The Siren is proof that alternative, new and entrepreneurial journalism exists for students
Elena Cresci is editor, co-founder and writer of The Siren: Swansea students’ alternative approach to student journalism. Describing themselves as the “students you can’t shut up” The Siren is an interesting and inspirational take on how student media is no
14. March, 2011
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The worrying trend of ego in young journalists
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
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Katie Oakes: Student media pre-election coverage
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
9. March, 2011
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I’m an AA – Aspiring Arts – Journalist
I’m finding it very difficult to write a post introducing arts journalism. Not least because it’s something that is not easily introduced. For a start, if I’m a journalist rookie, then I’m most definitely an arts journalist rookie – even
2. March, 2011
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Paul Bradshaw: Objectivity has changed – why hasn’t journalism?
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
17. February, 2011
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Michelle Hather: Q&A on women’s magazines
Michelle Hather edited women’s weekly Best magazine for five years before going freelance in 2009. While she was there she recieved nominations from the British Society of Magazine Editors, twice for Editor of the Year and once as Editor’s Editor.
6. February, 2011
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Nigel Barlow: Where stories come from
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
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