I’ve just entered the Student Media Circus Awards 2007. “Send Media Circus a sample of your work and we’ll be in touch!”, says the website.
I sent them pdfs of a freshers guide to life at university I did while on work experience at the Lancashire Evening Post. I also sent [...]
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Stephen Fry has a blog. This is what he remembers of the newspaper industry:
Feeling stale, tiring of the deadlines, hating myself for manufacturing cheap, easy rants – the line of least resistance when you rack your brains for weekly copy is to think of something you hate. That way lies the death of the [...]
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ITN is launching a youtube channel, reports journalism.co.uk.
The daily mirror did this. They have a program called Showbuzz, which frankly, I find very depressing. Its Miley Cyrus interview has 709 views.
Compare this to 67, 239 views of a Dead Ringers send up of Deal or no Deal. Or 110,681 views of a genuine Deal [...]
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Mark Comeford lectured us on the future of journalism. He has more knowledge than can fit into an hour. He said that mobile phones are the best tools a journalist can have. Mark’s phone has a scanner, a Dictaphone, a camera, a video and a tracking device amongst many mysterious others. My next [...]
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