Telegraph: Government ‘will take 35 years to recoup tuition fee losses’
Monday, 19 September 2011, 10:25
"Official estimates suggest the amount of money loaned to students will balloon to a record level by 2047 before the Treasury starts to recoup the losses from graduates. … Estimates obtained after a Freedom of Information request show that the s…
SchoolBook: An Introduction to SchoolBook’s Data
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 18:30
"The goal: to curate the thousands of public records available about schools in New York City, simplify and standardize their contents, and make it all as easy as possible to understand and compare school to school. … As you can see on any schoo…
Propublica: The Opportunity Gap
Friday, 1 July 2011, 11:57
An amazing project: ProPublica's investigation into access to advanced courses in US secondary education includes a database of schools allows users to log in with Facebook to look up their school. There are individual pages for each state, distri…
Press Gazette: The Wire: Want to be a journalist? Be prepared to work in London for nothing
Monday, 17 May 2010, 11:58
Totally agree with my former editor Dom here: "Two-week work placements are a two-way street, with the trainees contributing their time and effort in exchange for a certain amount of mentoring and the chance to see their name in print (that’s the way it works at Press Gazette). But if they are good enough to warrant having around any longer than that – they should be paid. And all reputable news organisations should have guidelines in place to make sure this happens."
Times Online: Hold the front page, I want to be on it
Sunday, 16 May 2010, 19:22
"1,200 people … applied in September for one reporter’s position on the new Sunday Times website."
FORA.tv: Real Tales: Education of the Entrepreneurial Journalist
Monday, 15 February 2010, 21:07
Jeff Jarvis hosts a panel on teaching entrepreneurship in journalism education.
JoshHalliday.net: The future belongs to the doers
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 08:54
"[H]yperlocal news sites should have been embedded into news journalism programmes from day jot … There’s no teaching practical journalism like beatblogging."
Chronicle of Higher Education: Extra! News Blogs by Students Grab Eyeballs
Saturday, 16 January 2010, 16:37
"Onward State is part of a national wave of student-run Web outfits determined to reinvent college journalism. … n general, they only get together like this once a week. … Onward State is a virtual organization whose members do much of their business digitally. Even gathered within feet of one another in the lab, staff members continued to scroll through the tiny profile pictures of the various social networks open on their computers. … Google Wave … is their version of hollering across a newsroom. They use it to run the editorial operation."
Rob Wells: LSJ off(line) on ’net news
Friday, 8 January 2010, 12:44
"If a student wanted to be a web designer they would have taken a web design course. Unlike law, knowing how to code a website is not essential for any journalist who wants to publish on the internet. There are suites of tools that come with either complete designs or automate the process. I believe that students should know how to do basic things in HTML, but it is not essential, and often better results can be achieved with tools that don’t require such knowledge." Amen.
Times Higher Education: The Future of Newspapers
Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 16:24
Tim Luckhurst : "Since its inception, the academic study of journalism has been engaged in an existential struggle. To achieve relevance it must prove itself valuable to the profession it analyses. … Relevance in journalism demands speed. Published online by their authors as soon as they were written, complete with links and summaries of no more than 800 words, several of these essays might have been discussed in newsrooms. Instead journalists read Media Guardian and academics are exiled from the debates that will define the future."
FolioMag.com: Media’s ‘New Wave’ Still Finding Its Way
Monday, 7 December 2009, 15:47
Jason Fell: "The majority of students are convinced they’ll be in New York writing or editing for Esquire or Cosmopolitan in no time. Very few have known what terms like SEO mean, or have ever worked in a CMS or with Flash. They laugh when I bring up the possibility of working for a trade publication."
Media Guardian: Doing it for themselves
Monday, 30 November 2009, 10:51
A really encouraging feature about UK journalism education… "The students are learning not just traditional local reporting but also useful digital skills: publishing using Wordpress, exploiting Twitter, reciprocal linking, how to search for local stories online through Google Reader and Yahoo Pipes (using metasearches to pick out relevant stories) and monitoring the (rising) traffic with Google Analytics."
McGuire on Media: Let’s not let Medill Innocence Project be another Hazelwood
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 18:38
"To attempt to redeem itself for its ignorance and sloth on [Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier], the mainstream press needs to rally to protect and defend the Medill Innocence Project."
The Scoop: The Case Against Teaching Access
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 13:18
"SQLite is my choice for the candidate to replace Access in journalism education. In addition to the advantages listed above, it’s also easy to “install.” If you can download files, unzip them and move them to a location on your hard drive, you can “install” SQLite. If you can install a Firefox add-on, you can manage it in the browser. And you can take your database files home with you or email them around. The add-on supports importing CSV files, SQL dumps and XML (although all databases can have issues with importing XML). It looks and works the same on a PC or a Mac. Most importantly, it demands an understanding of SQL that you can avoid when learning Access."
