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The Press Gazette Environmental Press Awards shortlist was announced Monday, with some familiar and surprising names on the list.
Can-Do Attitude
Up for Environment Journalist of the Year is Fiona Harvey, at the Financial Times, who I spoke to earlier this year. I admire Fiona: she has been a recipient of awards before, and ploughs a lonely [...]

What’s the BBC’s approach to training for online journalism? I spoke to Nick Shackleton-Jones, the BBC’s Manager for Online & Informal Learning and lead behind the BBC College of Journalism. (This post first appeared on Paul Bradshaw’s onlinejournalismblog.com.)
What is it you do, and what’s the BBC’s approach to multimedia training, development and learning?

I’ve just been responding to a survey for a forthcoming book, Embedding Sustainability across the Higher Education Curriculum, being put together by a researcher from Brighton University. It looks like a great project and a thoroughly needed piece of research.
These were my very brief responses to my experiences so far, but something I’ll be thinking [...]

Last Friday I heard Nick Davies present at the Association for Journalism Education annual conference in Sheffield. My piece for Journalism.co.uk is over here, looking at Nick Davies’ 11th hour call to journalism educators to be the guardians of the skills needed to “find out the truth”. This was the essence of Nick’s message:
“If we [...]

Theyworkforyou.com is a superb project, and is a useful tool for journalists and political commentators alike. I’ve been using it to track climate change and global warming mentions in parliament for a few years now. This just dropped into my email, a typical exchange from Scottish parliamentarians George Foulkes and Richard Lochhead, and of no [...]

“When we launch, we’ll have the largest single professional network online in the UK. The community lends itself to a social media network.”
Building a framework for half a million users to share and rate teaching materials is now the focus for the Times Educational Supplement, the PPA Business Media Brand of the Year in 2008. [...]

Tony at Harmless Sky has been following , for 18 months at least, development of BBC policy on the coverage of climate change.
He picks up on this line from a rather obscurely-titled BBC report on impartiality:
The BBC has held a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts, and has come to the view [...]

I spent an instructive couple of hours in the offices of the Sunderland Echo yesterday talking with their digital editor. It was an excellent opportunity to get inside a changing newsroom, with pressures of integration, industry sales and, even, writing copy.
The paper is an example of both the innovations and challenges of how a successful [...]

Thanks for all the comments so far. The post in reply, and new comments have moved on to the new post, over here.
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Earlier this week, one of the key sceptical blogs, Jennifer Marohasy, re-listed a collection of quotes to do with scepticism, denial and free expression. There are pegs on which denial–denial, and not scepticism–finds [...]

Paul Bradshaw at City has ‘produced’ (and that word is carefully chosen) another inspired blog post, pulling together the views of a number of journalists and academics to answer this question:
Should journalism degrees still prepare students for a news industry that doesn’t want them?
Go read it, it’s excellent. I’ve only a little to add, which [...]