Posted Saturday January 13, 2007, 8:23 am, Over one day old
Which rising star of journalism is this describing? ....but as (s/he) had extraordinary difficulty in finding new ideas, s/he made it (his/her) speciality to rail against the lowering of moral standards, the general weakening of character, the decline of patriotism...
Read Why oh why oh why.... (Links)
Posted Monday October 30, 2006, 8:19 am, Over one day old
In my Media Ethics session on Friday we were talking about the use of pictures, including issues of taste and decency. For example, we spent a while looking at the coverage of the Guardian coverage of the July 7 bombings,...
Read When camels overstep the mark... (Links)
Posted Thursday January 10, 2008, 1:05 pm, Over one day old
The Grey Cardigan's Dispatches from down table are more often than not the best bit of UKPG but even he would find it hard to top a gem contained in Tim Bullamore's obit on the doyen of obit writers, Hugh...
Read Live fast, die young... (Links)
Posted Saturday October 27, 2007, 8:44 am, Over one day old
"The popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace is driving unusually strong growth in public relations business, as companies tap into the power of recommendation, according to Sir Martin Sorrell, head of advertising group WPP." Interesting story from...
Read PR profits boosted by social media (Links)
Posted Saturday October 27, 2007, 8:44 am, Over one day old
It was no big surprise to hear the head of corporate comms for Google in the UK, Ireland and Benelux explaining "How the Internet Changes Everything ... and that includes PR." But some Leeds Met students listening to D-J Collins...
Read Google says the internet changes everything... and nothing (Links)
Posted Tuesday November 28, 2006, 8:21 am, Over one day old
As Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin thinks out loud about the need for a voluntary code of conduct for bloggers, I have continued to reflect on the way largely well-meaning commentators have picked up on Jackie Danicki's post about...
Read Have bloggers libelled Jackie's alleged "attacker"? (Links)
Posted Wednesday July 11, 2007, 10:57 am, Over one day old
More pics at http://sunderland.facebook.com/album.php?aid=28131l=a7a90id=835675701...
Read Ventoux: Top of the world! (Links)
Posted Wednesday October 18, 2006, 8:34 am, Over one day old
Wherever I go on the world I buy a newspaper but I don't think I have ever found a better one than The Guardian, which I have bought pretty much every day for 30 years. Today, I was presumably joined...
Read Heard the one about the tomatoes? (Links)
Posted Sunday November 12, 2006, 8:20 am, Over one day old
We presented the fifth and final University of Sunderland Delivering the New PR conference in London on Friday and if these posts are anything to go by - thanks Simon, Rob, Richard, Sarah, Lydia, Steve - I think we can...
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Posted Saturday January 20, 2007, 8:24 am, Over one day old
How should universities which teach journalism respond to the online revolution? With caution and scepticism, if yesterday's Association for Journalism Education meeting is anything to go by. The weather played havoc with arrangements and I was the only one of...
Read Teaching online journalism (Links)