Here are a few reflective thoughts about assessing student blog posts. Students were asked to contribute to a class blog as part of the online journalism unit that I teach. Eleven theoretical questions were posted on the blog and students were asked to choose five questions and post opinion articles (no more than 800 words […]
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Flat Earth News debate (London College of Communication – 6/4/08)
The ethical issues raised in Flat Earth News by Nick Davies were debated at the London College of Communication and here are a few notes [more analysis to come]. Davies doesn’t pull his punches when it comes to ‘naming and shaming’ those journalists who he believes have poor ethical standards. Davies reserves no less than […]
A crisis in confidence
I’ve not posted for ages. I’ve been thinking about: Why use TypePad? The only reason for staying is that WordPress regards JavaScript widgets as a "security risk". Moodle: The uni moved to using Moodle. The verdict: It’s brilliant and very intuitive. Plus it’s open source and we like that. Bids and Funding: Really need to […]
Job tips for journalism students
This tip came via Andy Dickinson’s blog, it’s an interview with media consultant Paul Conley about the skills students need to survive in the new world of convergent journalism. Conley sounds pissed off – like he’s just wasted the last half hour interviewing a student for a job, only to discover they don’t know what […]
MSNBC / Paris Hilton – well, I may use it as an example of news values.
A month ago, we had a BBC News 24 producer questioning the worth of a story about cute pandas in his blog. Now we have a newscaster on MSNBC questioning news values on -air. So it’s not the most informative or, indeed, eloquent discussion, but I do rather enjoy the ironic quote from the male […]
