Make money from your reviews

There is a website that pays you each time someone rates your reviews. I’ve been on ciao for a week and I’ve earned a whopping ten pence. But my friend claims she makes £200 a year.
Johnathan Deamer offers some down to earth advice about writing a good review. Many professional critics could benefit from his [...]

Richard and Judy go user friendly

Yet another example of user generated TV . This time Richard and Judy giggled at home videos from the web . You can view Richard and Judy’s funny five here. My favourite is Polar Bear Girl.
Their five minute feature screams out passing trend to me. Can the same be said of user generated content [...]

Photojournalism

Most of the work experience I did at the Derby Telegraph was writing for ’show pics.’ The photographer goes to a community event and then a reporter writes 150 – 200 words to explain the picture. I enjoyed doing this.Mark Hancock is a professional photojournalist. He has some great advice in his photojournalism blog.
A journalist [...]

Blogging can land you top job

In his Press Gazette blog Martin Stabe has guidance for journalism students like myself. He said:
I’ve written before that student journalists need to recognise that theirprofessional blogs are journalistic tools, not toys like their MySpace pages orFacebook profiles

He uses Brian Stelter, the New York Times’ media reporter, as an example of the benefits a succesful [...]

Journalists don’t act like this anymore:

Sometimes Swaffer and Kenealy would be found arguing in Kenealy’s cubicle,the shouting and swearing mounting steadily in volume and violence and endingsometimes with chairs or punches being thrown, after which they would go to thepub and get drunk together, perhaps brawling again in the street beforestggering back to the office [...]