Helen Pidd: "my first piece of advice to any budding journalist – produce one, brilliant, shameless article that gets everyone talking."

"A University of Lincoln spokesman has attacked claims [made in student newspaer The Linc, edited by blogger Dave Lee] that traces of class A drugs have been found on campus." No drugs on campus. Now that would be a great story.

Bill Thompson: "As I write this I’m also keeping an eye on the British Press Awards because they are being fed live to Twitter by the organisers."

Jack Lail’s reading list for journalism students.

More coverage for Dave Lee: "A journalism student at the University of Lincoln has already made a name for himself in the world of Internet blogging."

Jim Sheridan MP: "Foreign students make a valuable contribution to many of our disciplines, particularly in manufacturing industry. However, there is one discipline through which they make little contribution to the UK economy: journalism." O RLY?

"Visiting YorkVision.co.uk will bring you straight to Vision’s Facebook application. The entire web presence of the paper is embedded into the social-networking site."

"[Dean John] Lavine has a plan that he thinks will reposition Medill so that it can prepare students for the world of 2025. Some of the faculty fears that these changes represent the end of cherished values."

"there are few things more boring to the outside world than the inner machinations of a Journalism school."

"I know not all college journalism departments have the faculty to teach [online] skills. There are many opportunities to gain this experience … This includes my favorites: the University of Barnes and Noble and it’s sister school Amazon State."

Amen: "I think the course at City presents us with a polished, idealised view of what journalism should be, and often is. But it is a view that is very much removed from the reality of the pressures of newsrooms."

"the editor of Schamper, the student newspaper at the University of Gent (Belgium) describes how he — a philosophy major — built a Web-centric content management system that outputs to Adobe InDesign for print, all based on the open-source Drupal CMS fr

"[Teaching Dreamweaver] not very relevant to journalism, , because it does not include a robust content management system! … Focusing on Dreamweaver teaches exactly the wrong mindset for online journalism: that your Web site is mainly an island unto its

Dave Lee reveals that Roy Greenslade has not cancelled his monthly membership payments to the NUJ following his public resignation from the union last year… "I know I should do it, but somehow I just can’t,” Roy says.