Filed under: Hackney Post | Tags: Dalston, East Festival, Hackney, Hackney Post, Hoxton, Journalism, Museum of London, newspapers, Passing Clouds, Shakespeare theatre, Shoreditch
This week we have embarked on producing our own newspaper and website The Hackney Post, covering all things Hackney related.
My role for this week was in the features department so on Thursday last week I rolled up for a features meeting to discuss ideas and start things moving.
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: howard rheingold, Journalism, robin hamman, social media
Having returned to the grindstone after the Christmas break I had a very interesting lecture yesterday from Robin Hamman.
He spoke to us about the use of social networking and how to exploit it for journalistic purposes.
Filed under: Journalism, ethics | Tags: animal technicians, animal testing, ethics, Journalism, Parkinson's, science and journalism
As a journalist my future job will no doubt challenge me and take me into some situations with which I am not comfortable. This is probably the first of many but as the first I think it is most challenging. My mission? To write a news feature on animal testing.
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Journalism, New media, News/media, newspapers, Online
Straight forward reporting is still the most popular way of presenting facts, according to the Guardian’s Neil McIntosh.
Neil, who is Head of Editorial Development at the Guardian, spoke to City University students in a lecture today about innovation online, what the Guardian has done and what its future is.
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Evening Standard, freesheets, Journalism, London Lite, Metro, newspapers, Roy Greenslade, TheLondonPaper
Freesheets have taken off in a big way. I don’t think there can be any doubt about that, everyone I speak to comments on something they read in thelondonpaper or that interview in the Metro.
To my mind this can only be a good thing. No, they do not provide quality reporting, and I can’t say I enjoy reading them, but they get people reading the news and talking about it. Surely that is the role of newspapers?
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Journalism, News of the World, Prss Gazette, Shorthand
As my training progresses, the benefit of shorthand is becoming ever clearer to me. It is impossible to get accurate quotes in longhand and listening to a dictaphone while trying to type is time consuming when working to a deadline. Get a quote wrong and you risk seriously annoying a source and in some cases being sued for libel.
Filed under: Journalism, News comment | Tags: Brussels, Europe, European elections, European Union, Foreign Office, Government, Journalism
The European Commission
Yesterday I went to a talk entitled “Demystifying the EU”, given by Alison Rose who works at the Foreign Office. I know I will have already lost half of you. “European Union? Yawn!” That is what a lot of people think.
That was the problem that we all came up against as soon as questions were opened to the floor. The main consensus was no one in Britain understands the EU, no one likes it and a lot of people will not vote in the European elections because they don’t believe it has any bearing on their lives. (more…)