Bloggers need awareness of law, ethics
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 platform will be to show students, in practice, the requirement of an understanding of media law if they really, really want to work in media. But such an understanding, according to the latest research from global legal services organisation, DLA Piper, is significantly lacking from current internet users and publishers. The research illustrates that: Read more
Your views: teaching journalism at degree level
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 degree available.
There has been a credibility gap between academia and industry regarding the teaching of journalism. This is something that as a journalist, editor, managing editor and now academic, I want to do my best to address.
In September 2008 we are launching two new degree programmes aimed at training the next generation of magazine journalists.
Your feedback will be invaluable in helping ensure our students get the best possible degree. Thanks.
Take a look at the programme information for the undergraduate programme for more info, or get in touch, alex[dot]lockwood[at]sunderland.ac.uk
Yahoo! Shine, WoW should woah…!
‘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 writing in The Guardian, that:
women are offering up intelligent online content that stands in stark comparison to the narrow focus of many of the women’s magazines to be found on the news stands.
I’ve been following women’s magazines online for a while (especially the FWord and TheLipster, after I was introduced by some friends who were organising Ladyfest Brighton (ps. yes I’m a bloke)) and the Guardian article piqued my curiosity, so went to have a look. I was excited with the launches of Monocle and (less so) Intelligent Life last year–predominantly for the male market–and thought this might be the year for more on the intellgent women’s title and a freeing up of the magazine space. Of course Nova tried the comeback in 2000, and it fell flat. But we’ve moved on a lot since then.
Of Wowowow, I’ve not been the only one to think what the hell happened? It looks terrible, firstly, but more importantly what you get from the off: horoscopes, fiction about fat women, lying women, timid women…; Question of the day: “what musical comedy from your or your parent’s youth still resonates with you today?” And now Yahoo are getting into the market, which at least looks a hell of a lot better.
Same categories (health, sex etc) because it’s not essentially a new title, but an aggregation of some of the bigger publishing names already existing, e.g. Elle. It is developing its own editorial team, but it’s plugging directly into the mainstream women’s magazine market. I’m going to come back to this, because I fear if I/we don’t, then this new space we’ve found to express our independent interests will itself become owned by and characterised as a mainstream place of publishing.
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MAC238 Structure / Research notes
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
Presentation from week4 MAC125
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
Is the internet an institution?
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 wrong, because I was on the end of the phone’. Marr spoke… Read more
