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 – and online journalism as a whole – at Lincoln has been seriously lacking.” I can personally [...]
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 just serves to familiarise students with the tools.
An academic year later, and it doesn’t look [...]
It’s been over a month since I put LSJ bloggers into hiberation, and as the new year approaches I’m considering what to do next with it. The initial response was incredibly poor, with very few people contributing — only about a third of the people who submitted links to their blogs got involved in some [...]
Here’s the video of John Pilger discussing “why journalism matters” with Professor Richard Keeble of the Lincoln School of Journalism. It took place on Monday, October 12th 2009.
It’s taken forever to get sorted, and the video quality & the camera work isn’t the best, but it’s the whole talk, including the Q&A at the end.
If [...]
Link: Journalists off the mark on key news stories
The University of Lincoln’s press office beat me (quite substantially) in publishing a write-up of Dorothy Byrne’s talk at the university last week. It’s a decent article, though Ian writes consistently good copy so that shouldn’t surprise anyone.
But what is interesting is… it’s missing half the people [...]
