Tag Archives: Journalism
McCartney’s release, The Lincolnite’s lead
“The Lincolnite”, a Lincoln news website, seems to think making minor changes to a press release makes it into a lead story.
Continue readingA bit about code
This evening I spent an hour subbing one piece of copy for The Linc‘s website. Not because it was spectacularly bad, but because the HTML formatting was just horrendous. The solution basically involved me having to go through and strip … Continue reading
LSJ off(line) on ’net news
Recently I wrote about how the Lincoln School of Journalism was still getting it wrong when it came to blogging — something I’d already pointed out during the summer. In the comments on that post, Dave Lee wrote: “Blogging – … Continue reading
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Lincoln School of Journalism still gets blogging wrong
Part of what drove me to create LSJ bloggers in the first place was the stupid approach the Lincoln School of Journalism took to introducing students to blogging. I’ve argued that it does nothing to create interest, and at best … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogging, Education, Journalism, LSJ, University of Lincoln
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Why I cancelled my Economist subscription
(Aside from not getting the time to read it.) Every Thursday night The Economist sends out email summaries of articles in the print issue, political news, and business news. Even though I cancelled my subscription some time ago, I still … Continue reading →