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We’re working on a new digital project at Sunderland that will give our students a great outlet to develop their skills online. One of the key issues we’re coming up against, of course, is the liability that we as a journalism department may have as publishers of student work.
A practical benefit of the new digital [...]

Q. What do you think are the benefits for new magazine journalists of a specific, skills-based vocational degree in journalism? (Add your comment below)
Having worked as a magazine journalist since 1994, both in print and online, and having now taught since 2005, I am passionate about making sure that our students get the best industry-relevant [...]

‘New media, new women’s media’. So say the launch publishers for Women on the Web (the url www.wowowow.com, as the Guardian writer who brought it to the UK’s attention noted, had to be purchased from a porn provider). The site has some high profile backers and bloggers, and is another sign, according to Viv Groskop [...]

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Hi MAC238 students. Here are the notes from the seminar presentations. Use these to help shape your own work, but please don’t distribute to anywhere else. Any questions, please just post comments to this blog entry. Cheers.
Wk4 seminar presentation on structure, research, pitching

Here is the presentation and notes from MAC125 Week 4: Introduction to Magazines. For your use only — please do not distribute. Thanks.
MAC125 Week 4: Introduction to magazines

Went to the annual Bagehot Lecture at Queen Mary last night, with Andrew Marr talking on the subject of ‘History and Journalism’. Was an entertaining hour, if not illuminating, except it was great to hear first hand that ‘If anyone tells you the government did not bully the BBC over the Hutton Enquiry, they are [...]