Robots in the newsroom: are computers the future of journalism?
Kevin Schwenke can write articles in his sleep, or so he’d have you believe. At 6:25am a few Monday mornings ago, the LA Times journalist was jolted out of his bed as an earthquake shook his...
View ArticleUndercover in Syria: journalists pretending to be doctors pose serious risks
A journalists’ code of ethics is a license to the truth, granting a moral protection to the sources that supply it. Identifying as a journalist is essential in getting credible information, but...
View ArticleShould the media mirror society or try to move it?
As young, sprightly journalists, we are often filled with a burning conviction that we will, one day, after our 800th cup of tea, change the world. This world is bad, this world is flawed, and you, the...
View ArticleAre we winning the fight against unpaid internships in journalism?
Say it quietly (really, really quietly), but we might be finally starting to make up ground in the fight against unpaid internships. It’s a war that has engulfed our generation of aspiring journalists,...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Jenny Kleeman, Unreported World
“You’d have thought I’d be used to it by now,” Jenny Kleeman quips about the oppressive late May heat in a small and stuffy room in Jesus College Oxford. She is referring to her experience of filming...
View ArticleHow to report on a protest: the latest from Occupy Hong Kong
In the past few weeks I’ve had the great fortune of witnessing the Occupy Central protests in Hong Kong as a journalism student and British-born Hong Kong Chinese. Before Occupy Central I had only...
View ArticleSean Dagan Wood’s positive news agenda: could it revolutionise the media?
Beheadings, murders, diseases, wars – the news agenda has rarely been darker. But surely that just reflects the world we live in, right? Seán Dagan Wood does not think so. The editor of...
View ArticleDoes Ofcom only ever bark and never bite?
Matisse; a name synonymous with French art, has now made an impression in the marginally less cultured world of Britain’s Got Talent. Jules O’Dwyer won this year’s competition, painting the television...
View ArticleShould journalism be more moral?
It’s been a while since I’ve been asked to write something that I was uncomfortable with – and I don’t mean out of my depth uncomfortable but morally uncomfortable. I’ve never done a tabloid scandal...
View ArticleWhat’s it like to study journalism in China, and where can it take me?
Bolton University’s, Beijing based MA Program in International Multimedia Journalism provides students a unique opportunity to equip themselves with essential multimedia journalism skills while...
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