Teaching Archive

  • I have a confession: I have never liked student projects aimed at students. They tend to betray a lazy approach to creativity: after all, what can be less imaginative than...

    Why we shouldn’t be discouraging students from writing about students

    I have a confession: I have never liked student projects aimed at students. They tend to betray a lazy approach to creativity: after all, what can be less imaginative than...

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  • I’m looking for journalism lecturers across the UK who may be interested in a collaborative project for their class. Help Me Investigate: Networks will involve a number of journalism departments...

    Collaborative Journalism Project

    I’m looking for journalism lecturers across the UK who may be interested in a collaborative project for their class. Help Me Investigate: Networks will involve a number of journalism departments...

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  • This interesting post was sent to us via James Stewart from Glamorgan University. Chain Bear has created word clouds based on last month’s front pages – quite an effective illustration...

    Chain Bear Puts Papers In A Wordcloud

    This interesting post was sent to us via James Stewart from Glamorgan University. Chain Bear has created word clouds based on last month’s front pages – quite an effective illustration...

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  • Help requested: Studies of how the choice of news medium affects the message

    It is well understood that each news publication medium has its own affordances and limitations. For example, numbers are hard to discuss on the radio, it is hard to tell...

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  • It’s Yellows vs Blues: Students Reporting Politics

    There is a school of thought that general elections (and presidential elections in the States) are these days nothing more than media spectacles – a combination of showbusiness for ugly...

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