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Screen break! Keeping away from computers for a bit

Mar 21st, 2009

Off on holiday for a bit, and much welcomed it is too. So if you’ve ended up on this blog, and want to contact me (non-urgently) for the purposes of work drop me an email judith at journalism.co.uk and I’ll get in touch on my return. I’ll be back on email from March 30 and [...]

Tags: admin, journalism.co.uk

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Anthropology makes journalism feel a bit like eating a Big Mac

Mar 16th, 2009

I’ve long believed that social anthropology has a wealth of material to offer journalism. It was partly my supervisor urging me to make my final year undergrad dissertation more like a piece of academia than a piece of journalism that convinced me to pursue the career I now find myself in. I quite enjoyed dropping [...]

Tags: anthropologists, bae, ethnography, human terrain system, journalism, private eye

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BBCRadio4: Analysis/clever.com - Stephen Fry is a hashtag, or something #goodradioclub

Mar 12th, 2009

Tara Brabazon is a lecturer at University of Brighton and has some interesting views on internet tools - she bans her first year students from using (citing, surely??) Google and Wikipedia.
Also, @stephenfry is described as ’sharp as a hashtag’.
Find its presenter @kenanmalik on Twitter.
Worth a ‘Listen Again’.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Analysis | clever.com.

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Will the multimedia newsrooms of the future be differentiated as ‘broadcasters’ and ‘what-were newspapers’?

If we suppose that newsrooms will continue to exist (perhaps some crowd-funded, perhaps some foundation or charity-supported, perhaps some run as a hobby while we farm the barren, carbon-ruined land by night) will they be split as broadcasters and news publications? Or will everything be a newsroom publishing its content online, with no divides?
Martin Belam’s [...]

Tags: broadcasters, media regulation, multimedia newsrooms

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It isn’t really equal is it? The louder male voice in journalism

Mar 9th, 2009

I try and resist going on about this subject because I’m a little scared of getting branded as the One Who Goes On About Feminism All The Bloody Time, but given that Sunday was International Women’s Day and UNESCO is calling for the experiences of women journalists, here are my brief daily observations about women [...]

Tags: international women's day, women in journalism

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