Interviewing and ethics “In The Journalist and the Murderer (1990), [Janet] Malcolm described the inevitable betrayal involved in the journalist-subject encounter; the subject will regress like a patient in psychoanalysis, childishly trusting their questioner, only to discover that the journalist is not a compassionate listener but a professional with an agenda and a story to …
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Journalism Degrees. A failed experiment? Looking back a decade on.
Much maligned: media studies. One week and one day before 11 September 2001, Michael Hann, who is now Film and Music Editor at the Guardian, wrote a feature: Media studies? Do yourself a favour – forget it. The best part of a decade on, it’s interesting to have a look back at this. On job …
SEO What?
SEO What? (SEO and Journalism) View more presentations from petermoore. Just as the English talk about the weather, everyone in digitaldom talks about SEO. A brief overview of search engine optimisation is included in this presentation along with a number of the most popular viewpoints. As ever, comments welcome. – Sources Used: “Daily Mirror’s Matt …
An introduction: Journalism in the Digital Age
Journalism In The Digital Age View more presentations from petermoore. Given at City University London on 16.11.09. As the You Tube videos don’t seem to work, I’ll add this excellent one below:
Meanwhile, elsewhere…
An overcooked moral panic? Yes. 150 people have died from swine flu. But, amongst the panic, I thought that it would be a good idea to note that at least three other things that are happening in the world at the moment. It would be nice if just one newspaper, or one television station devoted …
Digital Times: new media, same problems
Here are some extracts from an article that appeared in the Westminster Review in 1833, a year before the twenty one year old Charles Dickens became a political journalist for the Morning Chronicle, and when Queen Victoria wasn’t a queen at all, but a princess of the awkward age of fourteen.